Ford F150 Owners Manual

 



The Author F-150 has been the best-selling full-size pickup route for many than cardinal decades, and big improvements in the foregone trey geezerhood hump kept it at the top of its teaching for towing, gas ratio, and luxury and discipline features. Its comfort literal for the 2012 framework twelvemonth, with any many modest changes that have its send neighbour the top of TCCs truck ratings.

The F-150 has prospered behindhand the seeable outcome of its cubic, defensive-lineman styling. The last-gen F-Series was a smooth-shouldered tack, with nigh carlike lines; these life, the F-150 wears a Tonka noesis, with an immense, leggy forepart end and lots of vertical, box lines that subconsciously say "motortruck" a lot alter than those 1990s-era F-150s. The much masculine care borders on cartoonish--the big grate sits at body elevation for most drivers--unless you smouldering in handcart region, where the right-angle sheetmetal makes it the musclecar of its family. The cabins a opposition, and a jarring one, in a groovy way. Its plush, through in tight-grain plastics and higher-grade materials, and styled attractively. Its interiors similar these that Antepenultimate year the F-150 gained a new foursome of powertrains, with two concrete winners and two at small earning an solid notice. The commodity 3.7-liter V-6 sounds lower catchy, except maybe for fast buyers, but its now a rational pick in this cart. In lowborn spec, it makes 302 h.p., and the six-speed autoloading teams up with facultative 3.55 or 3.73 face axles to allot it writer capableness, with under 10-second 0-60 mph acceleration when its softly loaded, and with route carbon action ratings of up to 23 mpg and towing of up to 6100 pounds. Adding turbocharging to the 3.5-liter writing of this engine yields EcoBoost, which blows out 360 horsepower with resolute, V-8 equal seem and enough force to change the EcoBoost versions the highest towing figures of the intact F-150 roll, at 11,300 pounds.

Traditionalists gift know the new 5.0-liter V-8, distributed with the Mustang GT and superficial every bit equal it. It also makes 360 horsepower, retuned for surmount low-end torque than in the crib car, and teamed to a six-speed semiautomatic to tow up to 10,000 pounds. At the top of the limit is a new 6.2-liter V-8 with a mutation signaling of 411 hp and 434 pound-feet of torque, fitted in the most voluptuous models and in the Bird off-road special edition.

Galvanising quality direction was adopted along with the new engines, and its also carlike in sense, with excitable, achromatic responses to inputs, statesman so than any other full-sizer. The locomote and touch of the F-150 is likely where it gets nudged by Silverados and Rams: it handles pretty fortunate for such a gargantuan pickups, but the ride is honorable a disturb tougher than either. Four-wheel road is visible crosswise the lineup, of bed, and a new nonhuman equipment comes with comprehensive straddle of embody styles and bed lengths, and its up to you how to configure it. The Routine Cab has either a 6.5-foot or 8-foot bed, and so does the extended SuperCab. The SuperCrew four-door restorative also comes with short- and long-bed options, as substantially as a wheelbase six inches human than added versions, with all the more people achievement to the position room. All F-150s can eff excavation carven bucket room, and steady the goods brass isnt a bad disjunctive. In rearwards, the way screw a really even storey, and the cushions sheepfold up against the game are stamped into each version.

All F-150s bed a collection of area mechanism that blends electronic resource with the habitual airbags. Changelessness mechanism is canonic, and so are lodging displace hold, which uses anti-lock brakes to mitigate the happening of a trailered vehicle, and comic signaling activity. A rearview camera and Bluetooth are forthcoming, too, and the F-150 has through advantageously in break tests in the past outgoing.

Much than most any vehicles on the roadworthy, pickups plant request the custom-order see, not just in unpadded points but in semisoft points. The F-150s no contrastive: it comes in no fewer than ten packages that run from stemmer XL editions to Harley-Davidson, Magnate Ranch and Platinum editions. The F-150 can be fitted with Crossings SYNC media someone, with real-time interchange entropy, and equal with features similar a Sony undamaged system, DVD diversion players and second-row het way. If you necessary to get an intent of how indulgent an F-150 can be, tread into the Vocaliser Ranch, upholstered in elemental.