Towing before I reach 1,000 miles

[markal49]

Just noticed that the owners manual says not to tow until the truck has 1,000 miles (presumably for break-in). Just brought my XLT home a few days ago and it has only 105 miles. I was planning to head out with my teardrop trailer in about 10 days. The trailer weighs ~1700 pounds, so well below the tow rating.

What should I do? Postpone? Squeeze in 1,000 miles before I go?

EDIT - I ended up getting to 1,000 miles before towing.

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[All Terrain Nation]

I towed with my Raptor with about 700 miles on it.

 

[olefordguy]

I wouldn’t but that’s a personal judgement call imo

 

[Cyrusblack]

If I was a gambling man - wait, I am! Roll the dice

 

[jedadiah]

You just gotta do 100 miles a day over the next 9 days and your Ranger will be nice and broken in and ready to tow.

 

[1986YellowRanger]

By then you will be fine as long as you take it easy since the trailer is small. Slow accelerations, no big hills, and other common sense stuff…. They just don’t want people towing 7,000 pounds over a mountain the first few days of driving (which some idiot would do and then expect the Ford warranty to cover a new engine and transmission).

 

[markal49]

By then you will be fine as long as you take it easy since the trailer is small. Slow accelerations, no big hills, and other common sense stuff…. They just don’t want people towing 7,000 pounds over a mountain the first few days of driving (which some idiot would do and then expect the Ford warranty to cover a new engine and transmission).

No hills, just three huge passes in the Rockies!

 

[markal49]

I towed with my Raptor with about 700 miles on it.

I have a hard time thinking it's a big deal, but don't want to risk my warranty.

 

[skhale69]

Just noticed that the owners manual says not to tow until the truck has 1,000 miles (presumably for break-in). Just brought my XLT home a few days ago and it has only 105 miles. I was planning to head out with my teardrop trailer in about 10 days. The trailer weighs ~1700 pounds, so well below the tow rating.

What should I do? Postpone? Squeeze in 1,000 miles before I go?

I used my 2018 F150 FX4 Super Crew 3.5 TT V6 to tow a 16 ft. trailer with 2 heavy round hay bales when it only had about 150 miles on it. Had no problem towing about 130 miles on hilly stop and go country roads.

 

[FreezingFlatlander]

My opinion is worth absolutely nothing but just wanted to relate my story concerning break-in. Many years ago I had overhauled my trusty F150 engine with the 300 six cylinder and it ran hot afterwards until one day I towed a John Deere combine header with it, not a huge load but a load, and after about a 25 mile tow the engine water temperature guage ran right in the middle of the range, never heated again. Now I don't believe the modern engines use the cast iron piston rings so it's different now but back then it took a load to break in the engine. You will be putting one some miles between now and then and given that the teardrop camper is such a small load I wouldn't hesitate to tow in, just use the Tow-Haul mode and go.

 

[fordtrks4ever]

I towed with my F150 before 1,000 miles and never had anything negative happen.

 

[SomeGuy]

I'm rushing to get some miles on before I tow, I'm not going to risk the warranty.

The vehicle knows if it is connected to a trailer.
We know the the vehicle talks to Ford - probably just about constantly.
Ford will know if you towed before 1,000 miles. I don't think this is a real big conclusion to jump to.

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