Buying a used vehicle...sigh
I have been doing a ton of web shopping for a low mile, used F250 crew cab gasser. I'm just doing my due diligence and trying to get the most out of my purchase but to my wife, it has become my lates...
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Grit dog wrote:
Nothing wrong w Canadian vehicles in general but with HD trucks in particular , a lot of them come from the oil sands and get shipped south as low mile trucks.
Some are beat, some aren’t, most all have a pile of engine hours on them.
Fleet outfits up there set the trucks up when new for sale later. All the new trucks I had came with full rubber mats like weathertech and heavy seat, console and some steering wheel covers. Then they remove all that and the insides look like new and don’t look like they were driven by rig pigs for 3 years.
My kid is an engineer in the drilling industry, and wow, does he have the stories about trucks and equipment being beat to death in short order. He designs and builds large pumps, vacs, and similar equipment. A big part of his thinking while designing machinery is, "I'm a rig pig, and I am determined to kill this thing, so what do I hammer,smash, or take a 4' pipe wrench to next?" He has gotten brand new, yet destroyed stuff back, with things like a blown diesel engine with less than 20 hours on the meter. Apparently small Kubota engines don't run well upside-down? Who knew, LOL.
Yea, I would work real hard at avoiding used pickups, fresh off the oil field.
