raptorvsboost

"The big disadvantage to turbo charging (regardless of fuel type) is that turbo systems tend to give lots of trouble if they are driven a lot for short, quick trips. This is where diesels sometimes get a bad name. If you tow with one once a month, and use it for a 5 minute commute and getting groceries, it is rarely getting good and heated up. This is horrible for turbos. The same holds true for some of the ecoboost motors."

Yanked from another forum.

I don't know enough about turbo's to comment.

WarSurfer

Eco turbos are water cooled in addition to being oiled. It's a non issue.

Buz

I know MPG's take a hit until the engine is fully warmed up. Something like 8 miles until an engine is completely warm.
Lots of < 8 mile trips will cause sludge in your oil too.
But I am now curious about turbos and short trips.

bmes1982

Even the diesels do just fine. I had a 2004 duramax for 9 years, multiple short trips, I was only 7 miles from work the majority of time I owned the truck. I had no issues at all with the truck. If it would have been a crew cab I would have kept it but being an extended cab it was a tight fit with a wife, 2 kids and a dog.

Uberbob102000

The biggest problem with the diesels is that they have a regen cycle on the DPF and that's why you need to have a longer trip every once in a while, or you'll get into a situation where the thing never fully regens (at least that was the case with my 6.4 PSD). It's not great oil sludge wise either if I recall correctly, but the turbos shouldn't have too big of a problem with it

HCFX2013

Short trips will foul out your plugs faster. Ford engines (or any engine for that matter) run very rich upon cold start so as to warm up the catalytic converters faster for emmissions reasons. Starting the truck, driving it short distances and then shutting it off without letting it get to operating temperature will foul out the plugs quicker.

anthony2558

And none of this you will ever notice over the life of your truck. Just drive the thing.

ls2c6vette

Exactly!!

HacksawMark

It'll be fine. You'll just to change your oil more often.

tuflehundon

Lots of short drives will burn out your battery faster. I do inspections and will drive 30-40 miles and then once I'm in the area I'm working, I do 10 or so 1-3 mile trips 15 minutes apart. I go through a battery in a couple of years. Starters don't last me as long either.

With all the fleet delivery trucks there are, if there was an issue with the turbos, you'd stop seeing them as fleet vehicles. But that doesn't seem to be happening. People like me (I don't drive an Eco though), and people like them do way more short trips than the average person will.