Wow, after 150,000 miles or 10 years, you'll have to replace the twin turbos!! That's a lot of money that will really depreciate this vehicle. I would had thought they at least, last as long as the engine. This alone now, would make me think twice about the Ecoboost. Real bummer as that was the best tow engine. Now I am glad that I got the 2010 5.4L although I really would had liked an Ecoboost.

Read the Wikipedia statement here.

 

this is old news...was reported last summer or maybe even earlier?

 

I also think that the Torture Test of the F150 Ecoboost pretty much showed it will last much longer than that. I think that 150k mile figure is to keep Ford legal happy.

 

And the EPA. Plus in the bigger picture, the number of people that actually keep a vehicle 150,000 miles is small and even more of them are doing this on company vehicles which take much less time to get to this. To the marketing guys 150 grand probably sounds like a great number.

 

Upon furher thought .... it'll probably work OK when not being beat day in and day out in torture testing.

 

i dont know why you people worry about these things... its not going to break.

 

exactly Does everyone on here realize that every truck (minus diesels) were only designed for 100k miles? Seriously the eccoboost turbos are designed to last 50% longer then any prior engine designed.....that includes the 5.4L So far all that are worked up on this thread think of it this way. When Most are getting 200k+ miles out of there 5.4l that was designed for a 100k useful life then take a step back and realize that the eccoboost was designed to last 50% longer then that engine

 

I hope that's not true. I'll go back to driving my older models with well over 100k.

 

Wow, I thought this vampire was staked some time ago. The misunderstanding comes from the length of the durability testing that was done. They had to test the motor for some length of time. They chose 150,000 miles which is longer than most engines are tested. That number made people that were already skeptical about a v6 truck jumped on it. They twisted the testing numbers into believing motors automatically fall apart at the minute they hit 150,000.1.

The motor Ford used for the video tests had ~170,000 of the hardest miles they could cook up and ran just fine. When put on the dyno after all the tests it made 1hp and 0tq less than its official rating.

 

Um that article is about the Ford Flex, not the F150. Two totally different beasts.

 

you completely missed what I wrote......the old trucks that everyone loved and claims are the best....they were designed for a useful life of 100k miles.

everything is designed for a useful life. Ford,GM, Chrysler, Toyota, Nissan, Honda....all OEs design every single component to a useful life. They will test and design to this. Thus if Trucks 15 years ago were designed to have a usefull life of 100k miles and many get 200k out of an engine, then you can only imagine that an engine that was designed to have a useful life of 150k will most likely last considerably longer then trucks and vehicles in the past.

 

exactly and they always low ball the numbers and its not like its going to disintegrate after 150,000. i won't be surprised if they get 200,000 with no problems.

 

Sorry! I misunderstood what you were saying.

 

Please note...The 6.2 is also designed for "150k miles / 10 years."



It's nothing to worry about.

 

The guys claiming turbos wont last long need to check out what needs rebuilding first when it comes to semi trucks and turbo piston airplanes. (One hint, it is not the turbo)