So I washed and waxed my truck the other day and when I was done I saw that I was down to about 1/4 on my first tank of fuel. Stopped by the QT truck stop on the way home. They move a lot of fuel so I figured it would be good, clean and water free. It was also my first time with high speed pumps. The giant nozzle gave it away. These things pump FAST! You just watch the dollars fly out of your wallet as the dial spins faster than your turbocharger at WOT. 30 gallons in 1.5 blinks of the eye and click, the pump shuts down. Some odd number so I thought I'd bump it up to the next dollar figure. Bad idea. Tried to barely squeeze it...gush, out the filler tube all down the side of my newly waxed truck and all over my shoes. Oh well, lesson learned. When the tank says it's full, it's FULL!

While I was there I bought a big tire pressure gauge as the one I had only went up to 50 pounds. Keep in mind I picked up the truck 10 day ago. One tire was 5 pounds under and the other 3 were ~10 pounds under inflated and this was not cold pressure. Thought the gauge might be bad so I checked it with 3 other gauges they sell including a digital one. All read exactly the same. Odd that the dealer did not check this. It's been several days now and I have been watching them and the pressure has not changed a bit since.

Stopped by the post office on the way home and had got the Ford proprietary wheel locks in the mail I bought off eBay for half what the dealer wanted for them. Book says check you lug nut torque at 500 miles . I was darn close and checked them. Book says 165 ft/lbs . Not one lug nut was anywhere near that. One nut was maybe finger tight.

Just an FYI to you guys with new trucks...at Ford, quality might be job 1 but quality control I guess is up to you.

 

Thanks for the pointers, I'll check those things this weekend. I'm at 700 miles now.

 

I will also check those items tomorrow. My pet peeve is that the truck was gorgeous when I picked it up except for one thing. Who ever cleaned it put tire dressing on the tires, forgot to clean the marks that come on the tires, from the factory, off prior to dressing them. Little but lasting......

 

1. Yes, attempting to top off with the big nozzle and/or the little nozzle will spill fuel.
2. What psi are you going to run in your tires? If you blew them up to 80 (max pressure on the E rated tire) you may want to back them down to 70 unless you are going to tow heavy. I run my tires at 72psi, I always tow trailers, and I typically get 50K miles out of my tires.
3. Good find on the lug nut torque.

 

1.) Once the pump clicks off, I wait 15 seconds or so.
Then with the slower diesel pumps (which are still fast) I fill until I see fuel in the filler neck.
I repeat that two more times.

2.) I run 70 PSI cold when I'm empty.
All four of mine had different PSI when I drove it home.

3.) I did not think about the lug nuts.

 

Do you have a torque wrench that is spec'd to 200 lbs ft or are you using a torque multiplier?

 

Good info! Have about 190 miles left until my first fill-up. Had my first re-gen today at 215 miles remaining...really kills your fuel mileage!

 

Thanks for the info!

 

Thanks, man lug nuts, who would have thought.....................