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davehultin
Jun 30, 2022Explorer III
OP here, it's update time! Seems that the vehicle that fills our unique needs and replaces our Ford Expedition is ... another Ford Expedition!
At first I dismissed the current Expedition platform because everything is a V6. You can't pull anything substantial with a V6, right? But when I found the Ford Expedition Trailer Towing Selector and discovered that the maximum loaded trailer weight of the Expedition Max was 9000 pounds, the search was on! I had no idea!
There were lots of suggestions for pickups in this thread, but because of the nuances of how my wife will use this vehicle for her glamping setup, a pickup was never a strong candidate. I started looking for the Expedition with the required 3.73 axel ratio and heavy duty towing package. They're hard to find, but I found one that I was going to see (about 100 miles away) but someone else beat me to the front of the line. About the same time a really nice 2019 showed up at one of the dealers here in town. It's loaded, which wasn't a selling point for me. I wanted the cargo space and towing capacity and didn't want to pay for all the bells and whistles ... but I was stuck with all the bells and whistles, and convinced them to put on a new set of tires at the time of my choosing to help offset all the bells and whistles I didn't want.
I haven't towed with it yet (that happens tomorrow) so I can't report on that yet. But I can say that the (non-towing) MPG is impressive. I hit 25 MPG on the interstate yesterday. My previous Expedition was 17 MPG on a good day. Perhaps the better MPG will start to offset the price tag.
Anyways, long story short, I'm a happy camper again!
At first I dismissed the current Expedition platform because everything is a V6. You can't pull anything substantial with a V6, right? But when I found the Ford Expedition Trailer Towing Selector and discovered that the maximum loaded trailer weight of the Expedition Max was 9000 pounds, the search was on! I had no idea!
There were lots of suggestions for pickups in this thread, but because of the nuances of how my wife will use this vehicle for her glamping setup, a pickup was never a strong candidate. I started looking for the Expedition with the required 3.73 axel ratio and heavy duty towing package. They're hard to find, but I found one that I was going to see (about 100 miles away) but someone else beat me to the front of the line. About the same time a really nice 2019 showed up at one of the dealers here in town. It's loaded, which wasn't a selling point for me. I wanted the cargo space and towing capacity and didn't want to pay for all the bells and whistles ... but I was stuck with all the bells and whistles, and convinced them to put on a new set of tires at the time of my choosing to help offset all the bells and whistles I didn't want.
I haven't towed with it yet (that happens tomorrow) so I can't report on that yet. But I can say that the (non-towing) MPG is impressive. I hit 25 MPG on the interstate yesterday. My previous Expedition was 17 MPG on a good day. Perhaps the better MPG will start to offset the price tag.
Anyways, long story short, I'm a happy camper again!
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