Just want to let you guys know that I have friends that fish on tour that have the Ford ecoboost and absolutely love it! I work for Ford and am here to answer any questions I can for you.
Thanks
Steve-

That was suppose to be Eco-boost. Darn word fill.

I have a 2012 F150 with ECO boost. It gets 18 driving intown back and forth to work. 22-24 on the road with No Load.
However, pulling a Ranger Z-521 with a wind or without, it goes down to 9 mpg. Yes, 9. Any adjustments to the turbo or suggestions ?
Love the truck but cant afford the tow...
Appreciate any input you may be able to get?

How are you calculating the fuel mileage and what are your driving habits?

Speed?
Cruse control?
Acceleration?

I doubt your getting 22-24 empty unless your driving 55-60 mph on flat ground and you must have a heck of a boat or drive the pizz out of it to get 9 towing.

Calculating the fuel mileage from the average mpg display on the instruments. I have a platinim series and it has real nice gauges.
Speed avg. is 70
Cruise - not usually when towing, i was scared it would drag it further down.
Normal acceleration. No head popping take offs.
22-24 average across 4 trips to Tulsa and back.
22-24 average across 2 trips to Rayburn and back , not pulling my boat.
Gotta be a fix for this?

That 9mpg sounds like everyone else that tows with that motor. Part of having small displacement and twin turbos. It has to stay in the turbo to pull.

I would think someone else would have ran across this and developed a performance chip or something to compensate for the turbo's working so hard.
I am a Chevy guy of over 40 years, and i will say this is the nicest, quietest, best driving truck, that will outrun just about any truck i have been in before with no load. With a load, it still performs great for passing, running down the road, but that gas guage is like a clock ticking when you have that big Ranger behind it.

Ecoboost is great but my old 5.4 3v tows my boat just fine and with an average of 12MPG.

Im with SuperG... 5.4 is one of the best gas work engines we ever had in our fleet at work. Not trying to be a rude person but the eco- boost don't impress me from a person of my field. Ok motor but don't think its all that.

Funniest thing I have read all night......2012 Platinum Ford, Ranger Z-521 and can't afford the gas bill for towing!

Fishinguy, you know diesels too or just gassers?

I couldn't either if I had those two.

Yeah it is kinda funny, guess it's one of those oxymorons they taught us back in school? $55k truck, $60k boat; but damn the $0.38 a mile gas is the straw that breaks the camels back. Too funny, but I will admit I can't afford the boat & truck combo.

Ya'll a little "quick ta judge" don't ya think! Takin' care of little things like that over 40 ta 50 years just might be tha reason he has those kinda toys now. Maybe, maybe not but....

have a 2013 eco boost and it gets 14.5 +/- pulling 19' center console about 50 miles. does not live in turbo unless long hill.
I like the truck alot.