TurboSalsa

Since this is probably one of the more humid places in the country, how are your trucks running? I'm moving back in the fall and I would like to get an EcoBoost, but it seems from reading around here that humidity seems to be connected to most of the problems.

Anyone not having this issue?

CoreyMS

None here.

EcoPlatinum11

20K problem free miles here bud....

SpeedofSound

I live in South Texas, along the gulf coast and have no problems to report here either.

Cheers!

rancherlee

It's not so much the humidity, its how close the Dew point temperature matches the ambient temperature. My neighbors says when he sees its foggy on a cool fall/spring morning he KNOWS not to try passing someone or the "eco stutter" will probably happen. This is one of the reasons I've decided to go with the 5.0L, my neighbor work at the same place and have the same drive which occasionally give him the stutters.

engineermike

South Louisiana here. Only 2 "shudder" incidents in 18000 miles, and one of them occurred in South Florida.

bradyb093

I have 9,000mi on my truck with no problems. I live ~20miles north of the gulf. No issues driving in high humidity, rain, or fog.

Seem like south LA should be able to replicate this problem if it would be a consistent issue.

Jaredface

I live on the coast of Mississippi, other wise known to The weather channel as the Land mass. I have the problem very frequently I would say at least monthly. I drive all over LA, mainly along the coast line going to various shipyards to work offshore. I have the problem allot when I am communiting to work..... I have a livernois 93 tune and it happens less frequently but still happens from time to time......All in all, I would not make this a decision breaker to buy an eco....I love mine and have 100% faith in it... I am being patient and waiting for a Ford or an aftermarket fix...

amascio

If you drive conservatively all the time, the 5.0 is your engine. If you drive aggressively, the ecoboost should be fine as my experience with 2 of them shows that aggressively driven EB engines are happy power plants. They do NOT do well hyper-miling. The 5.0 has no intercooler to foul things up so no matter how you drive them they're pretty much problem free.

As stated above, the dew point plays into this and I feel that using cruise control exasperates this water in the intercooler issue - no scientific fact to back this up other than the wife nevers uses cruise and she has not had the problem. At 62 years old, she still has better than 20/20 distance vision and drives like a bat of you know where.
If you punch it a lot, where the condensate in the IC will be swept out regularly, you shouldn't have a problem.

HoustonFordGuy

Agreed: Hyper-miling will kill this engine when the dew point to air temp is 1/1. Depending on how, when, where you drive with certain climate conditions it is one big f-ing mess.

Yes it is 100% true I can drive all “day” everyday in the City of Houston, or Beaumont and “never” have this problem. I can drive back and forth all “day” everyday from Houston to Galveston and back again and it “never” happens.

It is also 100% true I can drive it from Houston to Madisonville at 4AM when the dew point to air is 1/1 and it will “always” have this problem AND when you drive back to Lake Livingston (Trinity river bottoms) under those “exact” same conditions it “will” start to approach hydro lock. And you will “know” it when it happens. And the CEL will not come “on” until engine damage begins (like the clogged cats).

For me, it is a major problem. For others it will be no problem at all. There was “No Warning Label” on the truck that said I could not drive it when I want to?