I take pictures of every step, and I fill out an inspection form I snagged from some random Ford dealership online. I also print out the service schedule, check each item, then sign and date. Then, I use Ford's site to upload the service record.
I take pictures of every step, and I fill out an inspection form I snagged from some random Ford dealership online. I also print out the service schedule, check each item, then sign and date. Then, I use Ford's site to upload the service record.
update for me: dealer called me and told me my tax paperwork is in the mail. This is amazing since I have called multiple times and the people I could get on the phone had no idea what tax paperwork I was talking about (Ev tax credit).
I had the truck detailed, ceramic coated, and ppf filmed. It looked great for all of two days before the first rain covered it in dust. That being said every wash since has been a breeze as the dirt literally falls off. I had planned on building a garage expansion that contains the truck and boat this year, but our basement HVAC took a dump and the tiny 2.5ton unit apparently costs nearly 10k nowadays instead of 4k like it did in 2020 when I replaced my last houses basement hvac... 
approx 4k miles now. So far, for my winter daily needs the truck meets and exceeds. Including towing a 6x12 trailer to get random stuff from my wife's office 45 min away.
on long drives. a few weeks after getting the truck I had a work trip to Hilton Head from Charlotte. What i found is the moment the truck wanted a charge of approx 20% is usually right when my bladder needed to be emptied and I needed more water. I used to be a road warrior that could do 6 hours w/o stopping but nowadays 2 hours and my legs need stretching and I need to get out. Even with the fancy interior of the truck. By the time I have gone to the restroom, grabbed water and come back, on a tesla or EV America charger I am past what the Nav wanted me to charge to and happily go about my day. This will mean that for a long trip to say Upstate NY (Brocton) I would need 3 hours extra travel time of charging vs 2 gas stops like I used to do when we would go up for a family trip. Which may actually be better for my families health...
I have driven the truck in ANGER once. Just to see what it would do on back roads. It was beyond impressive in accelleration/decelleration and just feel (despite being a heavy truck with somewhat soft suspension.) For about 10 minutes before the motor temps/battery temps started to give me reduced throttle (screen for EV starts to show only 90, then 80 percent throttle available). It's not what it's for, but man did it impress me.
I have become such a huge EV fan that I almost had the wife convinced on getting a Mach E this year as a replacement for her Focus ST, she loves the manual though. And truthfully, a mini or miata would be a better commuter for her as she only has 1 kid at a time on routine, and if it's all of us we take the truck. so a big SUV makes very little sense for her. We thus decided to try hold out on the Rivian R3X and hope it's not $1m by the time it comes out or that mini gets it's head out of it's ass and makes a Mini E convertible for her. (she loved her 2012 S Clubman but refused to get a Macro Mini when we replaced that car.) Hell, I may be keen on a Boxster EV as well. (I love my NC miata, but the motor is not exactly an accoustical art piece).
I have a few wishes/hates on how ford designed things that I'll probably make a list of later. The giant touch screen is clearly two different teams fighting each other (HVAC controls vs stereo). carplay sometimes has it's own tab at the top, sometimes does not. seems random when it does work. Sometimes carplay insists it is playing music, but it is not and i can get the radio to play. The only way to get carplay to play is to turn the truck off completely and back on. How the heck a lariat level truck does not have garage door opener's standard is beyond me. Trailer tow is auto recognized but not auto cancelled but sometimes is? The dash menu has so many pop ups when you hook up a trailer that many time out before you can answer "do you want to set XXX trailer as hooked up". The trailer menu for hitch load control requires you to reclear it every time, then hitch the trailer then, then, then to check trailer weight balance. SO many steps that make you get in and out of the truck. The back up alarm beep is insane and I cannot believe that all f150's use it. 1 pedal mode took some getting used to and for 90% of use it's great. Trying to hook up a trailer? what a pain in the ass, nothing nothing, 6" of truck movement. Or the truck keeps putting park on because my door is open. I know it's open. I'm trying to hook up a TRAILER!. The electrical tailgate is awesome, until you have a bike rack on and then you cant tell it to stop halfway. so it keeps selfclosing as you try to get the helmets out of the bed. Phone as key is both awesome and painful in daily use. (Truck keeps unlocking and relocking at night because of proximity to my bedroom.) Camera views the truck has are amazing, but moment there is a trailer hooked up a large text of "full view not available" shows up. I know it's not a full view, why do you have to tell me!. I know it's for a soft plush ride with lots of tire travel but my god do I hate how high this truck is. It's easily 4-6" taller at the hitch than my last 2wd truck. Enough that I had to get one of those adjustable balls all the brodozers use because none of my 2" drops worked anymore for trailer usage. and lastly, my biggest pet peeve. Ford has struggled with this for three generations of truck so far. The safety chain loops and the hitch pin location. My last truck was ok when you figured out how to do it. This one? the safety chains hit the pin, if you use a locking pin, this means you need to pull the pin, put the chains on, then put the pin in and hope you can get it all together. For my lame College hitch cover, the locking pin is impossible to get in/out becaust of how they boxed the safety chain loops with the hitch reciever itself. so you have to struggle to get a regular pin clip in/out.
I did opt to get the second sub meter panel installed for a level 2 charger. Come boating season I was concerned that the low rate on 110v would hamper boating fun (yay range anxiety). For daily/weekly winter use the small amount of power I employ gets easily recharged before I drive it again on 110v/15a. After a last second work trip today/tomorrow. I'll be picking up the boat on friday from the winter barn and truly testing the tow ev usage. I am also VERY interested in my "mileage" when towing the boat. My old Ecoboost got 21 mpg driving up to indiana to retrieve the boat, and 19 mpg driving back with it (before I put the tower on it) at 80mph. Around town in the summer I would get displayed an average of 12.9 mpg, which would climb to 14.6 when i'd tow the boat to winter storage or back in spring. (80 mph on the highway.)
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