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Halmfamily
Oct 19, 2014Explorer
Purchased an 06 with less than 90000 miles summer of 2012. Within 1 year spent close to $5000 replacing oil cooler, egr cooler, fan clutch, both front brake calipers, added an engine coolant filfer, swapped Ford Gold******coolant to CAT ELC coolant, CAC tube and turbo was sfarting to have issues. Ran great with no load but a new issue seemed to pop up every time we hooked up.
Needless to say December 2014 we found a 2008 GMC 3500 DRW and got rid of the money pit F350. GMC has had zero issues and purrs like a kitten but pulls like Clydesdale. My opinion is this, if seller can provide documtation of a bulletproof truck and you can set some money aside for future repairs then go for it. If not rrruuuunnnnn.
Needless to say December 2014 we found a 2008 GMC 3500 DRW and got rid of the money pit F350. GMC has had zero issues and purrs like a kitten but pulls like Clydesdale. My opinion is this, if seller can provide documtation of a bulletproof truck and you can set some money aside for future repairs then go for it. If not rrruuuunnnnn.
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