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Originally Posted by speede5
I have a friend who owned a Jiffy lube for a few years and he said that they saw a lot of ecoboosts come in with fuel in the oil. The engine is made to work and when you are just city driving/grocery getting they dump in a bit too much fuel. Anyone hear anything similar? I also have been in an ecoboost towing a 3oot heavy bumper pull and the thing handled it just fine, albeit with terrible fuel economy.
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Our first 2.7 (2016) which I think was the first year of that engine, had that oil issue. Dealership did a pretty good look at the engine, and there were more than usual service bulletins they pulled up, and didn’t come up with anything definitive as to why. We replaced with a 2019 two years ago with the same engine and zero issues of that nature with the engine.
In general, the first few years of the 3.5 had issues. But the 2.7 is a great engine, we had the 5.0L before that in the f150 (and before that and alongside GM V8s) and the towing(4500lbs) was much much smoother (7 speed trans helped, now it’s 10) in the 2.7 over the 2014 V8 and never felt like it was struggling, where the V8 f150 when towing geared down more than I would’ve thought (my GMs even didn’t need to gear down and that was with 4 speed transmissions).
Needless to say fuel economy is superior both towing and especially day to day.