My BIL had a pool water business where he would load with drinking water at the water company. He had a truck failure next to the stinkest creek around and needed to drop some water to be towed, but he was not permitted to dilute the paper company filth with drinking water. I hope Mr. Truck didn't drown a grasshopper.
I'm not a Ford fanboy, but I'll be the first to admit that could happen to any truck. If there were hundreds of cases of the same belt prematurely failing that would be different. Just a fluke thing most likely.
2011 ram 3500. Cummins 68rfe. EFI live. 276k miles and climbing. 2017 keystone bullet 204
Bad luck. That kind of random oddball part failure worries me far more than any difference in brand quality or engineering.
Jason, Angie, and our boys, Sean (13) and Liam (8) Now with Radar and Daisy, both Boston Terriers. Missing Artemus the Labrador, gone on ahead. 2016 Ram 3500 CC Big Horn - 6.7 Cummins - B&W RVK3600 hitch 2015 Palomino Sabre 33RETS Platinum fifth wheel