Servicing of 2008 F-150's

[fordtough.ca]

Hey all
Good news
I just checked my Service Manual, and I now You can service your 2008 F-150 every 12,000 km or 6 month.
This is minimum recommended millage by factory

Whats changed ?)
BTW
Thank you Ford
bd:

[Smokefan]

Is your engine Flex Fuel?

[fordtough.ca]

No its not
scrc!

Check the 8th digit in the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) and corellate to what is listed as the 8th digit in the below chart.

Ford Motor Company
Vehicle
Character 8
Ford Crown Victoria V
Ford F-150 V
Ford Explorer & Expolorer Sport Trac K
Ford Ranger V
Ford Taurus 2
Lincoln Town Car V
Mercury Mountaineer K
Mercury Sable 2
Mercury Grand Marquis V

My is 5 for 5.4

[last5oh_302]

I think Ford is increasing the intervals to compete with other manufacturers. 5000 km's or 3 months was too much, even for conventional dyno oil. I've always done mine every 10,000 km's with full synthetic and a Motorcraft or Wix premium filter. That's likely too often as well, but I always wait for the mileage to hit 10,000 km's regardless of the amount of time that passes. Synthetic doesn't break down like conventional oil, so time is of little concern.

I'm sure the oil companies are happy to hear about this (sarcasm intended). IMO, it only put money in the pockets of the dealerships and oil companies. Like I mentioned, the oil change intervals were expected far too often and this is/was a major waste of coin for the consumer.

[fordtough.ca]

I think Ford is increasing the intervals to compete with other manufacturers. 5000 km's or 3 months was too much, even for conventional dyno oil. I've always done mine every 10,000 km's with full synthetic and a Motorcraft or Wix premium filter. That's likely too often as well, but I always wait for the mileage to hit 10,000 km's regardless of the amount of time that passes. Synthetic doesn't break down like conventional oil, so time is of little concern.

I'm sure the oil companies are happy to hear about this (sarcasm intended). IMO, it only put money in the pockets of the dealerships and oil companies. Like I mentioned, the oil change intervals were expected far too often and this is/was a major waste of coin for the consumer.
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[Smokefan]

Matt with miles you run, you can stretch it out with proper oil.

[Northern Supercrew]

well, i'll bring back an old thread. lol what would you guys recommend for the first service? mileage wise. i must have the ffv because of the yellow gas cap. if i can go 10,000 km's after the first, that would be great

[fordtough.ca]

Tell you what
Your manual will tell you 12 000 km
I use syntech and do it every 8 to 9 k
So will be OK with the same I wouldn't go Fords recommended 12 000 km

[f150phule]

well with the miles I drive I should be able to do just oil change a year with full synth. I'm lucky if I break 10000Kms/yr.

[fordtough.ca]

its 12 k or 6 months :)
nice try

[Stainless]

Are there not 2 diffrent scheduals in your manual?

[fordtough.ca]

Just did a 48k service
Ouch

[Northern Supercrew]

you got 48000K's already on an 08???? yep,you like to drive.

[fordtough.ca]

LOL, YEP

[pete74]

well, i'll bring back an old thread. lol what would you guys recommend for the first service? mileage wise. i must have the ffv because of the yellow gas cap. if i can go 10,000 km's after the first, that would be great

Hold up Northern........yellow gas cap-WTF. You better tell Bill that if he is going to write you custom tunes.
oh and first oil change.........I recommend 3000km. Your oil should be showing a hint of darkness on a brand new vehicle at 3000k........that's when I changed mine. In fact I did the first 2-3 changes earlier. Normal after that!

[Northern Supercrew]

Hold up Northern........yellow gas cap-WTF. You better tell Bill that if he is going to write you custom tunes.
oh and first oil change.........I recommend 3000km. Your oil should be showing a hint of darkness on a brand new vehicle at 3000k........that's when I changed mine. In fact I did the first 2-3 changes earlier. Normal after that!

thanks pete. it must be a ffv vehicle, but i will only be running reg gas. will that matter? I will send Corey an email about it anyways.

[pete74]

oh yes it will matter.......I honestly do not know if they can get as much hp out of custom tuning for those FFV engines. You will just have to talk to Bill and find out. As of the last I heard.......you couldn't even put programmers on them. Maybe that has changed now......and/or maybe with custom tuning it's not that big a deal, I just don't know for sure.
You better start doing some research though!

[Northern Supercrew]

just emailed Corey explaining that, so we'll see what she says. a FFv must mean it can run on gas and E85? no E85 around here. ho hopefully Bill can tune for that.

[pete74]

keep us posted.......I'm interested to find out the story on those now too!

[fordtough.ca]

Yep keep us posted, this would completely suck for you
Go and change your truck now :)

[Northern Supercrew]

i always wanted a super duty.......:icon_rolleyes::icon_rolleyes:

[fordtough.ca]

Miss leading salesman :(

Check your Vin # here this should tell you

If your 8th character is

V than you have 5.4L SOHC V-8 FFV Ford E85

Sorry :(

[Northern Supercrew]

yep, it's a V, dammit!!!!!! now i'll hope Bill has better news...i fueled up all the way back with it and haven't had a prob. filled up in EDM, then Grande Prairie and then Fort Nelson and put some in here too. so i can run the truck the way it is, might have to cancel the tunes tho and put the Gryphon up for sale:icon_cry:

[pete74]

Don't jump to conclusions yet.........these FFV's are becoming more popular so guys like Bill will probably have an answer for them if they don't already. We'll see!

[Northern Supercrew]

:icon_biggrin:this makes me feel better


Flexible-fuel vehicles (FFVs) are based on dual-fuel systems that supply both fuels into the combustion chamber at the same time in various calibrated proportions. The most common fuels used by FFVs today are unleaded gasoline and ethanol fuel. Ethanol FFVs can run on pure gasoline, pure ethanol (E100) or any combination of both.[7][8][10] Methanol has also been blended with gasoline in flex-fuel vehicles known as M85 FFVs, but their use has been limited mainly to demonstration projects and small government fleets, particularly in California.[11]

so Bill should be able to write me gas tunes afterall. not sure how it'll run tho if i have to put in some E85 if i'm out of town.

[Justin1635]

from what i've heard, flex fuel vehicles should be inspected on a more regular basis as the ethanol can wreak havoc on equipment..but this is just what i've heard.

And when they say service, do they mean just oil changes. or more in depth

cause i know some vehicles that should be serviced every 5k, and that includes regreasing items, etc

[fordtough.ca]

Service means oil change
Manual will tell you oil changes every 12,000 km or 6 months

[Northern Supercrew]

still gonna do mine every 5000 i think

[Northern Supercrew]

ok, here's what Corey said about my tunes.


Hi there Glen,

You don't have to get E85 tunes; you can run whatever you'd like. The cool part is that if E85 is ever offered where you live, you can always get another custom tune to utilize it. :o)

Thanks for letting us know!

Blessings,
Corey


i know we were a little confused about the E85 thing. so it looks like there should be no prob tuning it for straight GAS!!!!

[fordtough.ca]

Thank you
That great news

[Northern Supercrew]

i'm here to help:icon_biggrin:now i play the waiting game....