2018 F150 gets a 3.0 PS DIESEL

[GymB]

If I could just drive myself back and forth to an office during the week and haul weekend project materials or a new fridge on the weekends I'd buy one in a hot minute.

Laugh if you will, but that's exactly the truck I'm looking for! Just want to be able to get more than a half a sheet of plywood in the bed.

At the farm we always had inexpensive small trucks, mostly gas engines, and drove then until the doors fell off. No point in going bigger until we bought some land further out and needed to trailer some of the equipment, now I think we might be all diesel. Of course we'd never pull anything hard with a truck, not the right tool, use a tractor.

 

[Ikarus1]

For me, that's a detraction. No way I'd buy one.

Why not? The 3.5ecoboost had been out since 2011. It's a pretty solid motor.

Was also the only truck to do Motor Trends 10K lb payload test up the Rocky Mountains....peak torque at 2500-4000rpm tends to do that

 

[Ikarus1]

But. I am not particularly impressed with ANY Dodge.

esp now that you can get a Cummings in a Nissan Titan

 

[Chdamn]

Laugh if you will, but that's exactly the truck I'm looking for! Just want to be able to get more than a half a sheet of plywood in the bed.

At the farm we always had inexpensive small trucks, mostly gas engines, and drove then until the doors fell off. No point in going bigger until we bought some land further out and needed to trailer some of the equipment, now I think we might be all diesel. Of course we'd never pull anything hard with a truck, not the right tool, use a tractor.

I think you misunderstood. I'm not laughing at all I'd like to do the same. I also wasn't trying to say my truck is bigger and badder. It isn't. It has a purpose same as this truck.

All I was trying to say is if you need or simply just want a heavy duty truck, buy one. If not this motor will do everything a light duty truck needs to do and then some.

 

[GymB]

I think you misunderstood. I'm not laughing at all I'd like to do the same. I also wasn't trying to say my truck is bigger and badder. It isn't. It has a purpose same as this truck.

All I was trying to say is if you need or simply just want a heavy duty truck, buy one. If not this motor will do everything a light duty truck needs to do and then some.

Didn't think you were laughing about it and probably should have replied to the thread instead of your post. I was suggesting that the bigger/badder truck folks would laugh at the idea that anyone would buy a truck that wasn't the biggest/baddest since these truck conversations seem to end up at "if it ain't the biggest/baddest it's shite." I was being serious about the plywood problem though.

 

[Chdamn]

Just FTR. Here's my big bad F250 lol.

It ain't big and it ain't bad. It's simply built to haul a shit ton of weight and custom purposed with a ladder rack, double layered bed (that I built to be able to haul Sheetrock and plywood underneath with equipment on top) and wooden tool boxes, and a lift gate.

It has a vinyl seat and a rubber floor, crank windows and manual door locks.

It's been run into by a skid steer and hardly ever gets washed because of the roof rack. And the bed is permanently warped from its previous life of hauling 500 lb and heavier equipment tires.

But it is heavy duty. I've hauled 2500 lbs of brick in the bed with 1000 lbs of lumber on the rack at the same time. I've towed trailers that weighed in excess of 16,000 lbs.

 

[bigfelipe]

Just FTR. Here's my big bad F250 lol.

It ain't big and it ain't bad. It's simply built to haul a shit ton of weight and custom purposed with a ladder rack, double layered bed (that I built to be able to haul Sheetrock and plywood underneath with equipment on top) and wooden tool boxes, and a lift gate.

It has a vinyl seat and a rubber floor, crank windows and manual door locks.

It's been run into by a skid steer and hardly ever gets washed because of the roof rack. And the bed is permanently warped from its previous life of hauling 500 lb and heavier equipment tires.

But it is heavy duty. I've hauled 2500 lbs of brick in the bed with 1000 lbs of lumber on the rack at the same time. I've towed trailers that weighed in excess of 16,000 lbs.

you're just mean to your truck...

 

[The Green Heron]

For me, that's a detraction. No way I'd buy one.

Why not? The 3.5ecoboost had been out since 2011. It's a pretty solid motor.

"Was also the only truck IN ITS CLASS,to do Motor Trends 10K lb"

Fixed it for you.

 

[muskrat]

The modern diesel engine has had all its performance advantages over gasoline choked out of it by emissions regulations. IMO it offers nothing to justify the massive cost premium it commands.

But good for them, I hope that at least this 10 speed transmission works out well for them.

There is no gas engine option that will work as hard and efficient as the diesel. There is no gas engine that has the power, even if it did have comparable peak power, it wouldn't last. There were minor issues with the early 6.7s but it's worked out and it's on track to be a long lasting workhorse.

 

[muskrat]

Just FTR. Here's my big bad F250 lol.

It ain't big and it ain't bad. It's simply built to haul a shit ton of weight and custom purposed with a ladder rack, double layered bed (that I built to be able to haul Sheetrock and plywood underneath with equipment on top) and wooden tool boxes, and a lift gate.

It has a vinyl seat and a rubber floor, crank windows and manual door locks.

It's been run into by a skid steer and hardly ever gets washed because of the roof rack. And the bed is permanently warped from its previous life of hauling 500 lb and heavier equipment tires.

But it is heavy duty. I've hauled 2500 lbs of brick in the bed with 1000 lbs of lumber on the rack at the same time. I've towed trailers that weighed in excess of 16,000 lbs.

I've seen chad beat on this truck like hooker that owes him.

 

[trcubed]

Off topic: There's a 2.7L option for an F150? WTF happened to trucks man?

Derek8404 ...I bought mine during that promotion they had in late 2015...Friends and Family (or something similar) plus year-end close-out. They stopped that program after three weeks because pricing was so low they were losing their butts. I probably wouldn't have bought a new truck if it hadn't been for that program.

The 3.5L has tons of low end torque. If you stand on the skinny pedal from a dead stop or slow roll, you'd better be pointed where you want to go.

 

[Derek8404]

Off topic: There's a 2.7L option for an F150? WTF happened to trucks man?

trcubed end of the year is definitely the time to buy if you want a new truck. I probably wouldn't have bought new either if it hadn't have been for the sale and I had a decent amount of equity in my wrangler that I traded in.

That 3.5 will absolutely haul ass if you punch that skinny pedal!

 

[hp468]

Unless you pull a big trailer all the time, I'd go with gas. You can buy a lot of gas for $9k dollars. Plus, oil changes are way more expensive on diesels too. Anyone ever figured out how long it takes to make up the $9k difference?

No kidding on oil changes, with my aftermarket oil cooler I have a capacity of right at 5 gallons and I run synthetic.. I hate oil change time.

 

[Derek8404]

The problem that I see with turbos is that there are way too many people who don't realize that you've got to cool the things down after you've pushed them hard or you're going to coke the bearing from the heat frying the oil if you shut them down too quickly. And that ain't good.

You actually don't have to do that with the ecoboost. It's turbos are liquid/oil cooled, so no need for the old 30sec cool down with these.

 

[The Green Heron]

Unless you pull a big trailer all the time, I'd go with gas. You can buy a lot of gas for $9k dollars. Plus, oil changes are way more expensive on diesels too. Anyone ever figured out how long it takes to make up the $9k difference?

"Plus, oil changes are way more expensive on diesels too."

Common myth. It is simply not true. Propagated by people who don't own diesels. I could explain in detail why it's not significantly more expensive, but I am already bored with this.