[Fot] Towing (New F-150)

[Dean Vandecarr]

I have been towing with a 2011 f150 with the 3.5 eco boost engine. It is by far the best towing vehicle I have had. It has 77,000 miles with 17,000  miles towing an enclosed trailer weighing about 5,000 lbs.  The only repairs have been a set of brakes, tires and I just had to replace the spark plugs.  Turbos are still working fine. I bought the truck for towing the fuel economy is a bonus. The key to towing is torque. The Eco boost doesn't work harder than a larger V8 because it has 420 ft/lbs at 2500 rpms. That's more torque than the 5.7 hemi and the 5.0 ford. Most of the time towing I am  crusing around 75-80 at 1500,  Pulling the trailer up from Georgia rt 81 with major hills we were crusing around 75 and never exceeded 3,000 rpm.  With old Dakota with the V8 I had to take an alternate route because it couldn't take the hills. I am a little concerned about the new aluminum body and would wait to see how that plays out. But the drive train in this truck is awesome.

Dean VanDeCarr

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> On Jul 26, 2015, at 11:43 AM, davehogye <dlhogye at comcast.net> wrote:
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> The Ecoboost has to work harder than the V8 and the fuel savings is minimal.  I'll take a V8 over the turbo six.  The V8 gets better fuel mileage than my Toyota Tacoma and can tow a house.  Nice thing about the Toyota is it has great resale value.  My '02 with 85K miles has a value close to $17K if not more and people will be lining up for it.  
> 
> Dave
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> From: "Bob Kramer" <rkramer3 at austin.rr.com>
> To: "davehogye" <dlhogye at comcast.net>
> Cc: "Jeff Snook" <jeffsnook01 at gmail.com>, "Friends of Triumph" <fot at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2015 8:21:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [Fot] Towing (New F-150)
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> Somebody has said elsewhere that turbo life is expected to be in the 80k range, and it will be an expensive maintenance item.
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> On Jul 25, 2015, at 4:36 PM, davehogye <dlhogye at comcast.net> wrote:
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> The new aluminum truck is said to weigh 700lbs. less than the last steel version.  That's a lot of weight off during daily driving routines and the towing and payload has gone up.  Sounds good to me.  I built a SuperCrew FX4 version on line, no leather or sunroof thank you, and got the price up to $46K.  Now they are offering up to $8K in discounts and incentives.  It's sounding better every day.
> I read an article recently that discusses the improvements on 1/2 ton trucks that bring them up to 3/4 ton levels from just a few years ago.
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> Dave H.
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> From: "Jeff Snook" <jeffsnook01 at gmail.com>
> To: fot at autox.team.net
> Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2015 12:25:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [Fot] Towing (New F-150)
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> We've got a customer with a new aluminum F150.  He loves it.  Says it tows a
> 7K lb. trailer and doesn't even know it's there!  
> 
> Sweet truck, but stickered for $60K!!!!!
> 
> Jeff Snook
> http://www.snooksdreamcars.com
> 419-344-0319 (Mobile)
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