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Badass69 Senior Enthusiast

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Ford isn't building a better truck

.... just a stupidly more expensive one. I priced out an XLT double cab with the 2.7 Ecoboost to get rid of my Tundra. Honestly.. no BS. .. I can buy a loaded 5.3 LTZ double cab Chev for what Ford wants for some cloth seat piece of shit with basically a base engine.... I see fewer F150s all the time and with this bodystyle there is a very good reason for that...way too much money for nothing. A 5 liter double cab XLT was 56k. .. yes a mostly loaded LTZ with a 5.3 can be had for that MSRP here. Ford can shove their trucks up their ass!

 

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mookdoc6 Senior Enthusiast

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do Conquer! They have always sickened me.....Read the ecoboost fourms? I am on my 3rd Ecoboost after the first 2 blew the rods, or timing chains and they still say, "It's a great truck when it's running" I can't give up on Ford.

 

There is a reason GM still uses the same OHV 350 because it's rock solid. It's almost comical to me when they are compared with powertrains.....

kp52 Enthusiast

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do Conquer! They have always sickened me.....Read the ecoboost fourms? I am on my 3rd Ecoboost after the first 2 blew the rods, or timing chains and they still say, "It's a great truck when it's running" I can't give up on Ford.

 

There is a reason GM still uses the same OHV 350 because it's rock solid. It's almost comical to me when they are compared with powertrains.....

 

I had a '13 ecoboost and I will never buy another Ecoboost Ford. I had the common issue that when it rained hard and you tried to pass on the highway or give it a lot of throttle it would just shut off, get a CEL, then kill a catalytic converter. There were all kinds of theories flying around, condensation in the intercooler being the big one. Mine had the 'new' intercooler and it didnt help. It was flat out dangerous, I turned into traffic in the rain once ad it quit and I finally said enough. Luckily the dealer also owned a Chrysler dealer and put me into a new RAM with the same msrp for no cost. I was never so happy to get rid of something.

 

It wasnt all bad, it looked cool.and had HID headlights. I'm sure the new body is nicer as well. But man it will take more than cameras and back massages to get me back into another Ford truck.

 

FWIW though, the 5.3/6.2 has really little in common with the old 350 Chevy except its an OHV engine.. But no doubt the gen III+ small blocks are a great engine, just like the early small blocks.

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