I'm trying to decide which f150 truck to order, the 3.5 ecoboost or the 5.0 V8. I'm leaning toward the ecoboost, but was just thinking - Do the 2 V6 turbos require more maintenance than naturally aspirated engines? I saw the maintenance chart on the website and it doesn't mention anything different for the ecoboost engines, but thought I would ask someone that has one.

Also, are these turbos any noisier than the non-turbo engines?

 

There's a little turbo whine to them, but it's pretty quiet.

The maintenance schedule in the manual doesn't appear to be radically different from any other vehicle I've owned.

 

Welcome! They all have IOLM built in and maintenance should be almost identical.

 

Maintenance under 100,000 will be the same.

After 100,000 - 200,000 you can reasonably expect to spend more to upkeep the EcoBoost with regard to parts. This is coming from an EcoBoost owner, it's simply a more complex engine with forced induction.

 

As Creep said above - more systems=more parts=more possibilities for issues. Not inevitably more issues, but more possibilities. I have the 3.5 EB and it's the first turbo engine I've ever owned. Since it's a "weekender" I don't anticipate getting to 100k very fast, but am interested in seeing how it does.