Wondermutt
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- Jan 6, 2012
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I had my POS Dodge work truck go into sickbay again. While it spent its two weeks there, I was issued a Ford truck with the Ecco boost. At first, I thought, well this is great. I get to drive a granola mobile thinking it was a Prius type drive train. Was I wrong.
I spend most of my time going to mountain tops. The ones that are behind locked gates for the most part. They are normally not maintained like forest svc. roads. I was real apprehensive especially since it had highway type tires.
First test: Doing some night work above Deer Lake. This is a mountain top where the Dodge 2500 needs to be put into 4x4 high. With an empty bed, the Ford made it all the way to the top in 2 wheel drive. Nice start. Through out the course of the night, I made about 6 trips up and down the mountain. No issues. On my way home, I was looking for a gas station that was open. I was kinda concerned as I had already put about 150 miles on this tankful, and the odometer had just hit 280 and it was still above 1/2 tank. I just chocked it up to the granola drivetrain.
On the drivetrain... I had heard what sounded like a vaccum leak all night. never paid any mind as this was a rental car and it was going to get treated accordingly :twisted:
I pulled onto HWY395 and mashed the throttle hoping not to become road slime. To my suprise, when I mashed the throttle at around 15 MPH, the truck put down two black marks on the highway and this thing got to 65 fast, like mustang fast. I was in love once I realized I had me a hot one. I still did not trust the gas gauge. I hit just under 400 miles when I filled it up. With the calculator, it got 19 MPG. I was amazed as the diesel usually gets around 10 -12 traversing the same terrain. And I drove this rig 10X harder than the work truck.
I have a co-worker that has an F-150 (personal rig) and he gave me the low down on the granola gear. It is actually a twin turbo charged v6., not some hybrid like I thought.
Anyhow, after two weeks of flogging, I mean scraping rocks, steep uphill and back down, and over 2k of highway miles, all types of terrain that E. Washington and N. Idaho has to offer, it never gave any gruff. Honestly, I liked it. No complaints.
The interior, especially the back seat is real nice. We fit three guys geared up all over or close to 200 pounds with one guy being 6'3", had no issues fitting back there. Its the biggest back seat I have seen since a mac daddy caddy.
If your in the market for a half ton truck, you might want to give this truck a look.
WM
I spend most of my time going to mountain tops. The ones that are behind locked gates for the most part. They are normally not maintained like forest svc. roads. I was real apprehensive especially since it had highway type tires.
First test: Doing some night work above Deer Lake. This is a mountain top where the Dodge 2500 needs to be put into 4x4 high. With an empty bed, the Ford made it all the way to the top in 2 wheel drive. Nice start. Through out the course of the night, I made about 6 trips up and down the mountain. No issues. On my way home, I was looking for a gas station that was open. I was kinda concerned as I had already put about 150 miles on this tankful, and the odometer had just hit 280 and it was still above 1/2 tank. I just chocked it up to the granola drivetrain.
On the drivetrain... I had heard what sounded like a vaccum leak all night. never paid any mind as this was a rental car and it was going to get treated accordingly :twisted:
I pulled onto HWY395 and mashed the throttle hoping not to become road slime. To my suprise, when I mashed the throttle at around 15 MPH, the truck put down two black marks on the highway and this thing got to 65 fast, like mustang fast. I was in love once I realized I had me a hot one. I still did not trust the gas gauge. I hit just under 400 miles when I filled it up. With the calculator, it got 19 MPG. I was amazed as the diesel usually gets around 10 -12 traversing the same terrain. And I drove this rig 10X harder than the work truck.
I have a co-worker that has an F-150 (personal rig) and he gave me the low down on the granola gear. It is actually a twin turbo charged v6., not some hybrid like I thought.
Anyhow, after two weeks of flogging, I mean scraping rocks, steep uphill and back down, and over 2k of highway miles, all types of terrain that E. Washington and N. Idaho has to offer, it never gave any gruff. Honestly, I liked it. No complaints.
The interior, especially the back seat is real nice. We fit three guys geared up all over or close to 200 pounds with one guy being 6'3", had no issues fitting back there. Its the biggest back seat I have seen since a mac daddy caddy.
If your in the market for a half ton truck, you might want to give this truck a look.
WM
) Correct me if Im wrong but the twin turbo isnt a new concept. Over the road trucks have been using them for years. I drove a 84 Newyorker (K-car) with a turbo for 190,000 before the tranny gave out. Turbo never gave me any trouble. Everything else...just not the turbo. Gutsiest K- car on the road. Glad you like. CL
