F150 Ecoboost Reliability
A friend is looking at a 2013 F150 Ecoboost and I'm wondering how these are doing reliability wise. What was the first year for the Ecoboost?
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I have a little different endorsement on the 2013 EcoBoost. I bought one for my daughter to pull her horse trailer with. We like it so much that I just bought a 2016 for myself. She has a little over 40,000 miles on it and just wore out the factory tires and the only problems have been a few with the tire pressure monitoring system but they seem to have gone away now. The main complaint on the truck is that it is really soft in the rear and doesn't control loads or trailers as well as I expected it to and nowhere nearly as well as my 2016. We have added Rancho 9000 shocks and airbags, both helped but I am still looking for more. We are going to install LT load range C tires this weekend. I ordered my 2016 with those so that might be part of the difference. The 2016 also has the 6 1/2' bed, max towing package and FX4 package where the 2013 is a base XLT 2wd with only the 302 option package. I wish I knew how much each contributes but don't. So far the 2016 doesn't seem to be doing as well on fuel but I love it other than that. I recently started a business and am using it to pull a 22' flatbed that is right at the rated towing capacity of the truck and it is doing well. I know that I really should have gotten a 250 but decided to start the business a month after ordering the truck so I am using what I have.
In my opinion the most undervalued option (and easily retrofitted) on the 2013 is remote start. The best part about it is that even with "manual" climate control in the 2013 it will still make a call on whether defrosters or air-conditioning is needed and activate them on startup. My daughter is in college ROTC and has to drive to PT every morning at 5:00. She can start the truck a few minutes before she gets to it on frosty mornings and the windows are clearing when she gets in. That makes it a lot safer to drive. Likewise, on hot days after field maneuvers she doesn't have to get in a 150 deg cabin. I know that she sounds spoiled but she is paying her own way through med school with scholarships and ROTC so I felt that she deserved it.
In my opinion the most undervalued option (and easily retrofitted) on the 2013 is remote start. The best part about it is that even with "manual" climate control in the 2013 it will still make a call on whether defrosters or air-conditioning is needed and activate them on startup. My daughter is in college ROTC and has to drive to PT every morning at 5:00. She can start the truck a few minutes before she gets to it on frosty mornings and the windows are clearing when she gets in. That makes it a lot safer to drive. Likewise, on hot days after field maneuvers she doesn't have to get in a 150 deg cabin. I know that she sounds spoiled but she is paying her own way through med school with scholarships and ROTC so I felt that she deserved it.
