Home Forums Gear Hunting Trucks and Four-Wheel Drives Ecoboost with low tire pressure.

The tire pressure might be low, but for now the engine is still running.


No I wasn’t driving when I took the picture.

Damn. Mine has 214k. Share some details.

Yeah! What Stix said.

Type of driving, mixed, mostly highway, etc.

Oil change intervals. Brand & type of oil. Filter brand would be of interest as well.

Obvious you've taken good care of it, or just lucky.

Well for starters I’ll say I think getting this kind of mileage on a gas engine and transmission has an element of luck. Still I’ll take luck anytime I can get it.

Some of the details, 2011 F150, oil changes @ about 8000 miles, NAPA oil and filters. Driving is a mix of asphalt and dirt roads. Obviously more pavement but even a few of those are pretty rough. It gets used during irrigation season so over 10 years probably 1 1/2 years of it is irrigation season consisting of stop and go driving on dirt roads. It’s been to hunting camps. Twice it had 27,000 lbs in cement boxes behind in. Can’t believe the rear axle didn’t snap.

If I remember right it only had one transmission service. I think two brake jobs. I run 10 ply tires and probably get 60,000 -70,000 miles on a set and they are used up. I snapped a shock once and replaced all four at that time.

Neutral safety switch went out, and by now all the injectors have been replaced. Cracked a heater core hose and spent three weeks trying to find the leak, adding coolant when needed. The last straw on that was when I was carrying coolant and had to stop three times coming home to add. By then the leak was bad enough to find it. I replaced the door locks in both doors due to failure because of dirt. Last year I hit a deer and replaced a headlight. The fender is still a little jacked up but a pry bar made it functional. There’s a vacuum leak and the front right Spendal try’s to engage in a left turn and sometimes the oil pressure drops off to nothing. Don’t know if the oil pressure issue is a gage or pump issue.

It’s not without issues but all in all it has been a good truck. Without a doubt luck has played into it.

I've heard 130 psi will shorten the life of those sensors.

Been a heck of a truck .

Thanks for the history.

Must be a theme here. Mine spends a great deal of time off pavement for irrigating too. Dirt must be keeping it together. Lol

I’d accidentally overinflate to 90+ psi when I used a bad air pressure gage. It might have shortened the sensor life, it for sure made the truck ride like [bleep].

But, but, but the turbo'd V6 can't compete with the 5.0......🤔

Sounds like a great truck life.

And here I was wondering whether I should drive my 2014 F-150 Ecoboost with 145,000 miles another year or not. It's been a great truck. In 7 years it has needed 2 coils, a new multifunction switch (turn signal/wiper lever), an O2 sensor and a purge solenoid. It looks and drives like a new truck still.