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How critical and how strict is Ford with the 1000 break-in miles before towing? I just haven't had the time to get the 1000 miles in the last 3 weeks. I currently have 450 miles and I've been having to pay for someone to haul my hay to the barn and lumber from the sawmill. Now this coming weekend I have to get my tractor and wood processor over to a friends house.
Seems I have 3 choices 1. Pay someone to haul my equipment. 2. Left my wife take the truck on trips this week just to get the miles on it.... . 3. Just haul with it and hope nothing mechanical goes wrong.
FORD advertising says "We Own Work"!!! Ford owners manual says baby it or it will break!!!! LOL!!!!
As I have stated many times before.......look at the big rigs......they go to work immediately!! Less than 10 miles on the odometer, load it up to 110,000lb, go pull mountain grades in summer heat; then pull the first service of the trans and diffs at 250,000 miles.
Put that puppy to work, just watch the temps, etc. Ten miles.....no worries!!
I picked up a 2017 F250 CCSB 6.2 and put 600 miles on it before I hooked up my 7200lb travel trailer and took off for Glacier National Park with it. It's about 1500 miles round trip from where I live. Several mountain passes and lots of long straights. I'm not worried about the 1000 miles break in as recommended in the owners manual. I just didn't drive like a madman, and avoided full throttle starts
I have a 17' 250 6.7l with about 400 miles on it. I have a friend coming into town today with his 4 ton dump trailer. so I figured I would take advantage of this and go grab a few loads of gravel for my new driveway. I was reading this thread and it had me a bit worried about it voiding the warranty and all that. plus obviously I really want to try towing with this thing. so I called my local dealer here in Easter Washington. They told my the trucks are already broken in from the factory. they run them for X amount of time then change the fluids and all that. he said it will not void the warranty under any normal means. he mentioned that even towing at max cap it will not void anything. after all what's the point of a new truck you cant use for a few weeks?
so that answered my question. and this was one of the lead service advisor guys not just an oil change guy. figured I would share the info. thanks.
I'd imagine that most fleet vehicles don't get 1000 miles of 'soft' driving before hooking up a trailer. If this was a hard requirement from Ford I'd think that many fleet vehicle purchasers would look to the other manufacturers.
. 3. Just haul with it and hope nothing mechanical goes wrong.
