BUILT A NEW F350
Three times today, lol. I want a new F350 XL DRW with the 6.2 gaser, super cab,long bed with 4X4 and 4.30 gears. I only added a few extras on and it is still around 40K I guess the 08 F250 Psd will h...
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C-Bears wrote:mabynack wrote:
I just went through that process. I have a 2005 F-250 and it had a blown head gasket. I am three years from retirement and I wanted to figure out if I should get a new truck or fix the one I have. A comparable new F-250 Diesel XLT/GMC 2500 Diesel was running just over $50,000. I would have to get my truck fixed in order to trade it or sell it. The other option was to do a whole $7500 top end upgrade to my old truck and keep it. After much consideration I decided to keep my old truck.
Most of us, if not all will face this issue some day. I didn't go crazy when I purchased my 2012 but I got what I felt I needed to get the job done and be comfortable.
I struggled and paid it off in a year. Being full time I am averaging between 23,000 and 25,000 miles per year. Probably in 8 years or less I will be close to 200,000 miles, most of which will be hard towing.
What if I am not done traveling and full timing. Do I keep fixing my old truck? Heck, 8 years down the road a new diesel will probably cost over $80,000 without all the bells and whistles!
Maybe I shouldn't wait that long, maybe trading every 3 or 4 years is the way to go. I guess no matter how you do it, you are going to pay for those towing miles one way or another.
I was talking to my diesel mechanic this week, and he had a customer bring a 6.0 in with a blown engine and a junkyard 6.0 engine. He's tearing down the junkyard engine, studding it and checking all the parts out. And he's doing all the other jobs (EGR) to trouble proof the engine. It's a $3,800 job + the cost of the used engine, and it's ended up being a 1 week job.
