I bought a 15 expy EL back in March and so far ( i havent read all the replies) I am the highest or at least the highest milease i have heard of the ecoboost equipped expys now currently at 174k. I bought it at 168k from a semi-local sealer for a price i couldn't believe. This is very unusual but he could tell right away i had experience as a mechanic. The salesman (who was also a mechanic as they were short handed) let me pull the car myself onto their 4 post lift so i couls look at the underside.
I bought it knowing that it had obviously high miles, the one power running board didnt work (we just turned them off for now) and it had a cracked ps mirror front piece...thing.
No issues at all with paint and they had just given it a tune up and changed a vacuum pump i believe he said?
He gave me the original owners number and i call them and it turna out it was someone I have associated with before and he had nothing bit praise for the car, they just wanted a tax write off basically foe his wife's business for which she constantly drove the expy on the interstate.
Anyways, since then i have had to replace a blower fan motor and i have changed pretty much all the fluids as well as dojng thr normal stuff like rumning the CRC intake valve cleaner, using maf cleaner of the 2 map sensors and the iat sensor and my rear muffler or resonator or whate er is back there looked like a cat died in there one day so i removed it and made myself a rear muffler delete side exit exhaust.
I have worked at mechanic shops since...2003 or so so the idea of high miles didnt bother me at all.
I have not in any way been disappointed by this thing. We replaced our 2004 mountaineer 4.0 v6 awd and we loved that too but it just wasnt big enough foe our growing family. The mountaineer would get in the 17-19 mpg range combined depending how you drove it and this gets easily the same or better. In fact just 3 weeks before we drove the same route for a family outing and got 19.5 mpg with the mountain man and on the way home from the dealer with the expedition my trip computer said 20.5. You mean i get 150 more horsepower AND better mileage? Yes. PLEASE.
My wife loves the sync and the USB stuff, we love the lexibilty of the seating arrangement, it drives so smooth and it will absolutely surprise many "muscle" cars of the 90s-2000s era.
I do plan on making an intake, replacing the 2.5" section of exhaust with 3" and upgrading the muffler to 3" as well the possibly making a nice downpipe setup, and adding a tow tune, but my priorities are to get all the fluids up to ***** first. So far i have changed the tranny oil to amsoil syn atf (whatever the new version is called, with a blue lid), same in tranfer case amsoil extreme 75w90 in the rear end, flushed the engine and did amsoil signature synthetic 5w30 and I have somw coolant sitting at my shop and a tstat and i will likely change it tomorrow. Thinking of changing the brake fluid some time as well and upgrading to dot 4.
Best trip mileage i have ever gotten was a 20 mile trip home on a 2 lane highway following a car going 53 when i parked in the garage it said 28.2. Same trip home 2 days later with cruise set at 61 it said 25.5. It will routinely get 23 on the highway and combined it will hover around 20 mpg.
Anyway, thats my story. Sorry it ended up being so long.
