08 F450 6.4L Wrench Light on?
Hello I bought a 08 F450 Stake Bed from a local company that claimed coolant in the oil and it was deemed too old to fix. It was one owner with 88K miles. I took it to mechanic/friend 180 miles away ...
Forum Discussion
itguy08 wrote:blofgren wrote:
I'm sure the 2006 E-450 at my work would have put a small business under. $32k in repairs in 2 years which does not include numerous tow bills for random no starts. A small business would also have to think about lost revenue while the truck was in the shop, which was several weeks in total. Almost every imaginable thing has gone wrong with that truck, some more than once.
A new E450 is what, $50k if you tick every box? If you're spending $10k/yr in repairs + downtime + lost business, the smart owner would ditch that and buy something more reliable.
Yep, that's why there is a new F-550 with a V-10 on order. If we didn't have a purchasing contract with Ford it would have been a Ram 5500 with a Cummins as per our fleet manager. I think he's had enough of the Ford diesels because the repair bills are obscene. We have 3 2012 Ram 5500's with Cummins and the issues with them have been very minor.
By the way that E-450 has averaged $16k per year for the last 2 years. Pretty poor for a vehicle with only around 40k miles on it. Oh, and one of the issues was that the "bulletproof" Torqueshift transmission grenaded and required a complete rebuild.
