I don't know man... Ford's been on kind of a bad motor run for the last 20-some years with something major always needing to be "resolved." I loved my older ones but later motors have kind of been a mess. I'd like to get another but I have no confidence in them now. Maybe they can do the reverse and recreate old motors to put in new ones. ; )
Jeez, I just ran across this doing cleanup and catch-up almost a year later.
I had a '99 Ranger with the 4.0L V6 for over 22 years. Put 190k on it. Replaced spark plugs, thermostat and viscous drive fan clutch in that time. Was running like a sewing machine when I gave it to a kid starting a landscape business. I had been driving it for 2 years with no reverse (crappy Mazda M5OD-R1HD transmission) but you'd think I gave the kid the keys to a brand new truck! It pulled a tandem-wheel 16 ft. trailer with my Mahindra tractor on it to the dealership half a dozen times since 2009 for service and repair. It had a factory tow package but the trans was over-rated, IMO.
For the record, I've been driving 61 years now and they've been nothing but Fords and a couple or Mercs.....never been stranded and have no regrets. The only tow I had to have was when I totalled ($11K damage) my '16 Escape on a whitetail buck, Christmas Eve night 2019). Lots of mileage (CA to GA /2,600 mi. and back 4 times in that period, pulling a U-Haul trailer on one of those trips, in a '72 Comet GT with 302 V8), lots of cabover camper totin'....'75 F-250 Camper Special with 390 V8, lots of 28 ft./ 7,000 lb. travel trailer pullin'.....''08 F-250 Super Duty Powerstroke 6.4L Diesel. Not a single hiccup. Honestly though, that 6.4L Navistar/International-built Powerstroke in my '08 Super Duty was a bomb poised to go off at any time. It had the DPF deleted and a chip put in when I bought it used, it pulled like a mule and would throw you back in the seat when you stomped on the accelerator but 3 years into my ownership the high pressure fuel pump went out. They pulled the cab to replace it.....it was a $2k repair. Yikes.
Anyway, Ford wised up and after the 6.0L and 6.4L Powerstroke issues in those Navistar/International-built Diesels from 2004-2010 they decided to build their own for 2011, over 14 years now. I've heard glowing reports on that Ford-built 6.7L Powerstroke.
The 2018 F-150 I have now has the 3.5L V6 Ecoboost. It's twin-turbo and runs and pulls great BUT.......I'm leery of it. I bought in Aug. '18 and the owner had the VCT phasers replace in June.. Out of warranty, it cost him $2.5K. I found the paperwork later in a side door pocket. I had them replaced AGAIN in July in warranty but it would have been $3K if I didn't have the extended Ford warranty.
I've been sidetracked with the cancer treatment from January of this year until August and as soon as I'm up to it I will likely offload this F-150 and find another clean, used F-150 with the 5.0L V8, a non-EB / non-turbo motor.
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