Let me start by asking for you Help
I have a 2000 Lariet PSD 4WD supercab with gauges 5 in pipe ( Too Loud )and a DP tuner. The truck has 61,000 miles I have ownered from day one, No problems ( trucked just use to tow our 5th wheel trailer.
Today I was kicking tires F350 Lariet 4x4 Crewcab short box dullie Loaded big sound system power roof all the toys Truck listed at $ 53,855 discounted down to $ 42,930
They two different Ford dealers ( three with the Dodge dealer ) will give me
$ 14,500 for the old girl but it sounds too good to be true.
I could really use some opinions. ( go easy on me I'm an old guy )
OK Go new or keep big red.
No brainer, sounds like a great deal. The 08 is an awesome truck. The inside is the best Ford has ever made. It's quite and the front looks up to date IMO. My F350 rides better then any truck I've ever owned even a F150 and it pulls like a bull dozer. If your asking me I'd say Go for it! You only live once....
I could argue either way, but this time I'll come down on the side of investing a bit in Big Red and hanging onto it for the duration.
It's not even broken in good yet. You've religiously changed the oil and coolant and filters when due, so you know it's had excellent maintenance for the long run. The only problem is a weak tranny that could go south at any moment, leaving you stranded far from home. So spend a bit over $4,000 for a bulletproof BTS tranny/torque converter, and another few hundred for an oil-to-air tranny cooler from a 6.0L PSD, and install a good 5" performance straight-through muffler to make it sound civilized, then you're good to go. Less than $5,000 to fix that one up, but over $28,000 to trade for the new "leftover" 2008. Use that extra $23,000 to buy some diesel and see the country.
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My Sierra Blanca is a '99.5 PSD CrewCab hot-rod Towing Machine! BTS tranny; TurboRamAir intake and 4" stainless turbo-back exhaust; DP-Tuner tunes flashed into an Edge Evolution tuner; ISSPRO EV gauges and TTM; AIC; SP-Diesel exhaust brake and torque converter controller. I special-ordered it new and plan to drive it until it quits.
you guy's ain't making this easy for an old guy!! I have weighted the idea's Old or New and I really like Big Red .I talked to Brian at BTS he asked if I serviced the trans I told him Twice in 60K and the trans gauge never got over 190 while towing the 5th wheel. Brain said save your Money . I never heard that in the Chicagoland area. Up here they would change the trans , turbo and what ever else you have money for.
But then again that shiney New Lariat sure looks good too. No Dog Hair
Well I guess I'll just roll the dice. and keep reading .
Thanks for your Help. I'll keep pondering my decision !!!!!!!
I think that you are in the same boat that I am in at times. I look and ride in the 08's and think about getting one. Then I get back into my 96 and decide to keep it. I personally think that the older trucks and even one like yours is a better truck than the new ones. Granted the styles and dodads that the new ones have are nice too but I don't need them. I want a truck for a truck and not a car to take a date out to a nice restraint, and it is getting hard to find such a truck anymore. I know that I wouldn't feel too good the first time that I took out a Lariat or a King Ranch and got it stuck in mud up to the doors how I would feel after crawling back into the truck with mud all over me to get home. It proably would be worse than I felt the first time that I did it with my 96. So what I would do is keep Old Red and put a couple thousand into mods or some nice dodads and wait and see what is coming in the next few years.
Jim
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96 F250 PS XLT 4X4 long box, 5sp,4.10, manual hubs,pyro+boost guages,Dark Toumaline, add a leaf,Dale's TYMAR,and HX hose, downpipe, coolant filter with coolant eye
As you can see from my sig- I trade 'em in after three years. My advice to you- if it's still a good truck. keep it. And for God's sake, how in the HELL did you get them to offer that kind of beans for a truck that old? At first, my dealer offered $15K for my '05 with only 45K on the ticker! I told him kindly where to go and how to get there, got him up to $19.5. I wish I still had my '02. It was loud and rough compared to my '08, but it would be paid for, and I could always chip it.
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Red 2002 F-350 XLT SRW 4x4 7.3L reg. cab 6-speed rubber floors traded at 50K for:
Red 2005 F-350 XLT SRW 4x4 6.0L reg. cab 6-speed rubber floors BFG 12.5x35 mud-terrains, no lift traded for:
Red 2008 F-350 XLT SRW 4x4 6.4 reg. cab 6-speed. Got carpet this time- audiophile stereo deletes rubber floors. BFG 12.5x35 mud terrains, no lift.
Well I still haven't made up my mind . I told you I was Old
Well the truth be told the Ford Gen Man . Really P'd me off !!! way too pushy . We explained that the Wife is getting surgery tomorrow for C . This Clown didn't back down . I thought this old VN Vet was going too Jail that nite. ( like old times ) The Salesman called again today .They want to give me a Better deal . Talk is Cheep. Maybe the two letters to Ford Too .
Well may this week-end if all goes well Tomorrow.I will listen to the offers with out the G/M ( Clown ) Thanks for Listening
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. I never heard that in the Chicagoland area. Up here they would change the trans , turbo and what ever else you have money for.
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