F150 Diesel Ike Gauntlet

that was disappointing, clearly it needs a proper exhaust brake and does not like being at the redline for 20 minutes at a time. I'd say there will be some software updates to fix this pretty quickly.

IdaD wrote:

Dave H M wrote:
I would think it was programmed to go limp before some nimrod let the thing over rev and scatter its innards over the highway?

Perhaps, but nobody ever wants to go limp.

LOL.... sounds like a personal problem

Dave H M wrote:
I would think it was programmed to go limp before some nimrod let the thing over rev and scatter its innards over the highway?

Perhaps, but nobody ever wants to go limp.

I would think it was programmed to go limp before some nimrod let the thing over rev and scatter its innards over the highway?

I thought it may be a glitch too, at the end of the video they say they repeated the test and it did the exact same thing the second time at around the same place. Seems Ford missed something in their testing. Just goes to show, never really a good idea to buy gen 1 of anything no matter who makes it.

This coming from a guy who bought a gen 1 6.4L Hemi :B

The truck going into limp mode after revving high on the downhill is likely an early production software glitch I'm guessing. Other than that, it seemed the truck performed well and as noted got good mileage. I watched the 2015 Ram Ecodiesel run the Ike towing a slightly lighter (7200 lb) and lower profile trailer and it ran a little faster and got a little better mpg than the diesel F150. So IMO the two are very close, and it's pretty pointless to compare them to the big boys or to the gas 150/1500s. The 3.5 EB or 5.7 Hemi will probably run much faster and burn much more fuel. Like others have been pointed out, the market for these trucks are for a daily driver that gets great mpg for such a big vehicle and also has the ability to tow a boat or midsize travel trailer.

That went exactly how I thought it would with a small diesel. I like how they even comment that small diesels should not be confused with their larger HD brethren. These small diesels are made for fuel economy while the HD diesels are made for pulling power, just like some gas engines are made for fuel economy and others are made for all out power.

I had to laugh every time my cousin compared his Ram Ecodiesel to my Cummins. He actually thought that just because they were both diesels with his peak torque only being 400 rpm higher and him having two more gears with a much shorter rear gear that they would both pull and preform the same. It wasn't until he actually drove my truck seeing how it can pull a load at much lower rpms than his Ecodiesel that he finally started to see what I was talking about when I stated that his diesel was designed for fuel economy of a car and my diesel was designed for pulling power in a truck.

womps wrote:

Kavoom wrote:
Oh boy can't wait to buy one of those... Ram? Ram? Where are you?

Don’t bother Ram. They are too busy trying to get their emission passed.

lol.......:o

Kavoom wrote:
Oh boy can't wait to buy one of those... Ram? Ram? Where are you?

Don’t bother Ram. They are too busy trying to get their emission passed.

Flashback to 2003 when the 6.0 came out, I think they have managed to make a smaller version of it. Don't worry though, Fish will be along shortly to let us know what really happened and who is to blame.