My tree guy has something like 300k miles on his eb f150. I need to check with him on the tally now. When he got it, I wasn’t familiar with the change ; it was ’14 or ’15? anyway, I scoffed. He drives through the barrio about once every 2 - 3 weeks or so.
He loves his, says he was let down by the mileage, but only because it wasn’t as good as he was expecting, but way better than his older F150.
I somewhat agree, after the initial roll out, the 4.6 wasn’t too shabby, but the ’90’s era when they started making their way into cars and trucks converting from the 302 weren’t as spectacular. My buddy retired from a local PD and took up driving ( shuttling folks to and from tv interviews ). His chosen vehicle was the Lincoln town car sedan something or other. it’s slightly bigger. He drove the pi$$ out of them, to the tune of 395k miles on the first one, rebuilt once. bought the 2nd used with I think over 50k miles and drove that one another 400k miles. He still has that sedan, he’s retired now. The car looks amazing, he keeps it covered, meticulously cares for it. both powered by 4.6. Those motors did not live an easy life, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of miles, he spent a cr@p ton of time idling, with the a/c blaring or heat on.
you’re only hearing about problems on FRF, not the people who are racking up miles. it’s easy to say 3.5 won’t measure up to the 4.6 in this context, but who knows what the coming years will reveal?
@Sasquatch77 - what do you think?
It’s ok, we know you’re here. for now.
