Any families gone from Supercrew pick up to Expedition?

I was about to order a '23 F350 Tremor to be the ultimate family hauling rig. I've a had a couple superduty trucks in the past and they're great. My last truck was a '18 F150 3.5 and it was awesome. I had to sell it do this overseas military tour we're on. But we're moving back soon and need a family hauler. I'm starting to second guess this decision and thinking maybe an Expedition Timberline will do a better job.

We're a family of 4 plus a 100 pound dog. Lots of baseball and soccer mom weekends, road trips, ski trips etc. I don't even currently have a trailer to tow. But one of my requirements is being able to tow my 4 door Jeep Rubicon on a car trailer if I want to take it to far away places like Moab UT from the East Coast. That would be maybe once a year or less.

Just typing this already sounds like the SUV is the way to go. I just wanted to see what ya'll think.

Finally, as much as I don't want to spend all the money on the high line trim, those captain chairs are pretty much essential for the dog to move around on long trips, plus ease of getting to the 3rd row for the kids if I need to haul more adults like taking the grandparents somewhere.

zimm said:

I was about to order a '23 F350 Tremor to be the ultimate family hauling rig. I've a had a couple superduty trucks in the past and they're great. My last truck was a '18 F150 3.5 and it was awesome. I had to sell it do this overseas military tour we're on. But we're moving back soon and need a family hauler. I'm starting to second guess this decision and thinking maybe an Expedition Timberline will do a better job.

We're a family of 4 plus a 100 pound dog. Lots of baseball and soccer mom weekends, road trips, ski trips etc. I don't even currently have a trailer to tow. But one of my requirements is being able to tow my 4 door Jeep Rubicon on a car trailer if I want to take it to far away places like Moab UT from the East Coast. That would be maybe once a year or less.

Just typing this already sounds like the SUV is the way to go. I just wanted to see what ya'll think.

Finally, as much as I don't want to spend all the money on the high line trim, those captain chairs are pretty much essential for the dog to move around on long trips, plus ease of getting to the 3rd row for the kids if I need to haul more adults like taking the grandparents somewhere.

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First off, welcome to the forum. I'll start with this. We had a Expedition at the same time we had oir Raptor. The way you explained it, am Expedition seems the way to go. The roomyness of a Expedition is amazing especially if you get the max. The towing capacity is more than adequate for towing a Wrangler. Unless your towing more than 10k pounds there really is no reason to get a Super Duty. The Expedition will not disappoint.

Now for what trim. If I were to order an Expedition I would get the XLT. That is because we are frugal. If your a little looser with money, a Stealth Performance will make your old F150 slow (4.8 seconds to 60 MPH) or the Timberline might give your Wrangler a run for its money (unless you modded your Wrangler).

Choices Choices choices.

I had 2018’s and now 2022 F150 (Raptor/Tremor) and Expeditions (Platinums) My kids prefer the Expedition for road trips due to the rear captains chairs.

If you're going to tow often, the Max will be a more stable platform. Even though technically it's rated less than the short wheelbase model.

I don't want a max. Won't be towing much. As far as trims. If I do a high trim XLT, towing, LSD diff, I'm at $73k. If I do a low trim Timberline, I'm also at $73k. The difference is the XLT gets the captains chair, which I want, but the Timberline has the HO motor with 60 more HP, which is nothing to sneeze at.

I've made the switch from truck to SUV twice - once from an Explorer SportTrac Adrenaline to a Ford Edge Limited and just last week I traded in a RAM 1500 Limited for an Expedition Max Stealth Performance.

In both cases, my *usable* storage space increased. The only way you'll get more utility from a truck is if you need the vertical space of an unenclosed bed to hall something tall, dirty, long, etc..

In both cases, I haven't regretted the decision. Each time I made the swap I was at a point in my life where I needed more inside, conditioned space than a pickup bed.

I went with the Max because if you need to keep the third row up (I have three kids) there isn't a lot of cargo space left. For example, I couldn't sit sideways in the non-Max cargo area without squishing my shoulders between the hatch and third row.

I'll talk about interior comfort as the Expedition will be up to towing your Jeep with no problems; it just won't win any fuel efficiency awards doing it. Prior to ordering our Expedition, we had a 2003 Super Duty crew cab and a 2010 F-150 Supercrew. The A/C in the Super Duty was great, probably the best of any vehicle we've ever owned--no one in the rear seat ever complained; however the A/C in the F-150 was horrible. Our F-150 was an XLT without the flow-through console so the rear seat took forever (ten to fifteen minutes of driving) to cool down. The front seat wasn't much better as you could feel the air just start to get cold at the discharge vents and he compressor would cycle off. I always felt sorry for anyone, especially the dog riding back there on short trips.

I'll be honest that I was worried that the Expedition would have that same problem only with a much bigger rear area to cool. The A/C in the Expedition we test drove seemed to work OK so we ordered one; and, for as long as we've had it, the A/C has performed flawlessly...even when temperatures are in excess of 110°. There have been times when we had both blowers blower set on medium speeds and had to slow down the rear blower as the grandkids back in row three complained they were too cold.

I tossed around the idea of supercrew vs full size SUV for a long time. We borrowed my Father In Law's Tahoe for a trip from Dallas to Florida for Christmas and took our dog in her crate. That sealed the deal for us as we could keep the dog out of the weather and haul all our stuff and four adults in comfort.

I ended up with an Expedition non-Max with captain's chairs like you are looking at. Didn't think I needed the size of the Max and the adult passenger comfort was a top priority. Figured I'll just drop the third row for more cargo space like how we pulled out the third row in my FIL's Tahoe. The thing is though, captain's chairs and dropping the third row for more cargo isn't the most ideal solution. In the Tahoe, the second row bench seat made for a completely separate space from the passengers and the cargo (Dog, suitcases, gifts, etc.) The captain's chairs are just chairs sitting in front of the cargo area and things tend to slide under braking and end up all over the place. This is especially true for picking up a big grocery order.

If I had it to do all over again, I'm not sure which way I'd go, Max or bench seat. Probably the Max, but I'm still not sure I'm happy with what we ended up with but will make it work. You are on the other side of that decision so these are things to think about.

Not directly, but went from a 2016 XLT SCrew 2.7EB 2wd to a 2018 Exped Max Limited
A few cars in between & the Exped is the wife's. I don't have many miles in the Ex yet, but definitely liking it better than the SCrew. The huge power bump from the 2.7 to the 3.5 is quite nice too.

As others have said, the towing of the expedition will be adequate for towing the jeep. I love the captains chairs for the easy in and out of rear seat passengers and in your case room for the dog to easily get in and out. The standard expedition with tow package will get you 9200lbs towing capacity. (its more than I will ever use but nice to know i can)