E350: V10 Gas, or 6.0 Diesel?
We have a Ford Excursion and a family of 6. It tows well, but with all of us loaded up, gear, and gas, we are really not left with a whole lot of payload, so it limits the amount we can tow. We are lo...
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blofgren wrote:
Save yourself a big headache and go with the V-10. We have a 2006 E-450 cutaway cube van with the 6.0L at the city I work at that has cost over $32,000 in the past 2 years in mechanical repairs and it only has around 60k miles on it. That dollar amount is not a typo. It is currently being replaced with a new F-550 with you guessed it, the V-10 engine! The repair costs of the 6.0L engine will easily exceed the extra fuel that the V-10 will burn.
The 6.0L can be an absolute nightmare and the Econoline chassis makes it that much harder to work on. The mechanics at my work despise working on them and are happy to see this one go.
Yeah but that's only like $500 USD!
I agree they are turds.
