Powerboost Owner Tips!

[Mudflap]

It will get you there 14% faster. ;-)

Using your speeds, 100 mile trip you'll save 10 minutes. 1 hour 25 minutes VS 1 hour 15 minutes.

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[joejamesatou]

The oil pan is metal. The transmission pan is polymer.

 

[dafish]

Ethanol has less btu relative to gasoline. Other things being equal it will get less HP and less MPG. That said , things may not be equal:
* Is there a blend such that the already rich Ecoboost will allow more timing, and that offsets the lower BTU?

1. Maybe, but the tables I've read suggest an ECO won't put needed timing in unless it's detected ping, pulled timing out via the knock sensor, and is now returning to baseline. I'm not aware of (nor am I expert in) a anything adding additional timing in dynamically.
   1. I think these things cry for a good tune.
2. Given the air intake temps I've seen, I will seriously consider water injection and timing aggressive tune.

BTW, I've tracked MPG empty and while towing. I've never seen benefit from 93. More power? Probably, but this is a truck. If I wanta go fast I break out the vmax.

 

[joejamesatou]

Agreed on the intake temps. I also put in a Cobb intercooler.

 

[SteveP150]

Benefits of higher octane also depend on where you are. If you live out West at altitude, there's little benefit to running 93, which is also pretty impossible to find.

 

[EricR]

Sounds like your experience has not been good. I feel bad for you and would be upset too, if I was in your shoes.​

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Though I don't understand why you insist on painting the excellent experience of most owners with the brush of your bad experience.​

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Maybe it's time for you to move on from this truck. Employ your state's Lemon Law or try Ford's buy-back program, then try another. Maybe another brand (though all brands manage to produce lemons) or another Ford - as odds are very high you will get a good one.​

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Is your extended warranty the ESP that is directly backed by Ford, or something from a third party?​

 

[Scoobtay]

I got 37mpg last week on a short 12 mile rip to go visit my folks. I’ve NEVER seen anything less than 20mpg, doing pulls in sport mode. Truck has also seen no issues. You may have gotten a lemon.

 

[NotMyName]

22 fully loaded platinum 4x4 with CCD/scales and 34” Nitto Recon Grapplers (the light 116t ones). Speedo calibrated for larger tires at around 20k miles. Tires have been on since truck was new. Premium fuel from Costco always. 5k oil changes and tire rotations. Thousands of miles pulling a trailer and 22mpg for the life of the truck. 26mpg common/25+ hand calculated.

my first Ford was an 86 Merkur Xr4ti, and ever Ford after that has been great with this one being the best.

 

[Samson16]

86 Merkur Xr4ti

That puts me in the way back machine right there!
Remember the Celica Supra and the Fiero GT? My dad drove an Audi 5000 GT. I drove a 1976 Ford Pinto in 1982 by contrast lol.

 

[Atlee]

Look stop telling tall tales this truck sucks! 17 MPG is all that you're going to get out of this truck. Yeah, punch it when entering the highway and it's a rocket. Try and open the tailgate when you need it most and it will fail. Put it in the shop for two or three tries when this truck is supposed to be your livelihood and you can't do without it, then tell me that this is a great pickup truck. I beg to differ. Truth be told, if I could have chosen another truck to spend $75,000 on plus another $4,500 on an extended warranty, I think I would have been a better shopper if I had looked elsewhere. Ford has dropped the ball entirely. Quality control is non-existent. And the dealers and the corporation Ford motor company are two different entities entirely. The dealerships are just squeezing money out of you, but they're not going to cover anything under warranty. I spent an extra $4,500 at warranty and have yet to have anything they have done be covered under that exorbitant extra expenditure. I'm so done with Ford. What a disappointment after 30 years of loyalty.

Which truck? Your truck or PB trucks in general. If your truck, I'm sorry you got a lemon. If for the generic PB, your blanket is too broad.

Obviously, the next time I take my current MY22 PB out it could fail, but up to now (25K miles) it's been pretty much problem free. It has had one CEL event. Dealer then desulfered the catalytic converter and has worked fine since then. Otherwise it been to the dealer to have the oil changed and The Works done, plus a couple of recalls.

 

[Atlee]

Look stop telling tall tales this truck sucks! 17 MPG is all that you're going to get out of this truck. Yeah, punch it when entering the highway and it's a rocket. Try and open the tailgate when you need it most and it will fail. Put it in the shop for two or three tries when this truck is supposed to be your livelihood and you can't do without it, then tell me that this is a great pickup truck. I beg to differ. Truth be told, if I could have chosen another truck to spend $75,000 on plus another $4,500 on an extended warranty, I think I would have been a better shopper if I had looked elsewhere. Ford has dropped the ball entirely. Quality control is non-existent. And the dealers and the corporation Ford motor company are two different entities entirely. The dealerships are just squeezing money out of you, but they're not going to cover anything under warranty. I spent an extra $4,500 at warranty and have yet to have anything they have done be covered under that exorbitant extra expenditure. I'm so done with Ford. What a disappointment after 30 years of loyalty.

Unless you live in Florida or California, you could have gotten an extended warranty (VIP) for 1/3 what you paid. If you live in one those states, bitch at them for protecting greedy local dealers.

 

[Samson16]

It’s just a bit tiresome with these 2000 word screeds. At some point the venom spewing has me rooting for the truck in the story.

 

[Snakebitten]

I gotta admit it was an awesome double barrel Rant!

I've said it before, sometimes you gotta give a fella some grace and let the steam vent.

The only thing confusing is I was looking for what might have been the final straw. I might have missed it, but I only saw some loose fasteners and a tailgate that didn't open on command?
In 3 years?


The gentleman has been a member a long time, and unlike me, he's been a man of few words.

There's gotta be more to the story.
He's getting the benefit of the doubt from me.

 

[mxwrk]

Speaking of tailgate not opening....does anyone elses tailgate take two presses of the button on the dash to open? Also two presses on the actual tailgate button.

 

[Snakebitten]

Yes, lots of people's tailgates are programmed that way after a certain OTA update a year or so back.

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