As we look at FW's - we are simultaneously looking for a truck. I have been focusing on 2015-2019 F350 6.7 l Diesel, under 100k miles and under $39k. While this truck is about 4 hours away, the price seems pretty good for this low mileage, one owner and no accidents. I'd love some input. I plan on heading that way this weekend to take a look. I have been having a hard time finding these closer to home and either the price is right but miles are high, or vice versa. link

That's a nice truck at a good price.

Looks clean, and also looks like they took off the bigger more expensive rims. But if it does what you need it to do go for it!

So the ad says one owner on car Gurus, but the Carfax says it has had 4 owners. The first 2 were commercial in Quebec and tallied up all the mileage. The 3rd owner was a consumer in Quebec - or some kind of auction dealer, and then a dealer here in VA - I assume traded at auction from Canada to Va. Is that something to be concerned about?

Very nice, these trucks are not easy to find. I needed a long box for the truck camper, and SRW long boxes are even less common.I found my Ram over in NJ, one owner, dealer serviced, 81K miles, here is the original window sticker, I paid $37k. I was running a nationwide search for about a month, seems like you have to jump on these deals when you find a decent one. The Ram dealer I bought it from was telling me he had to spend his PPP money, so he was moving his used inventory at no profit just so he could keep his sales and prep staff busy, even though the showroom was closed and by appt only.I went to the "build and price" on the Ram site and this exact truck in a 2020 would sticker at $68k. I think used inventory is going to continue to be tight given the cost fo new trucks.

way2roll wrote:So the ad says one owner on car Gurus, but the Carfax says it has had 4 owners. The first 2 were commercial in Quebec and tallied up all the mileage. The 3rd owner was a consumer in Quebec - or some kind of auction dealer, and then a dealer here in VA - I assume traded at auction from Canada to Va. Is that something to be concerned about?Read an article about this not long ago, because of the very favorable exchange rate, wholesale buyers in the US buy vehciles in Canada and export them to the US. Even with the costs of exporting and converting the odometer and speedometer to miles from kilometers, it is profitable. That is not a vehicle I would buy. I prefer to purchase a factory certified (not some hokey dealer certification) with the extended factory warranty the certified vehicle provides.

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whjco
Explorer
Jul 14, 2020
DownTheAvenue wrote:
Even with the costs of exporting and converting the odometer and speedometer to miles from kilometers, it is profitable.

Not sure about the Ford, but my 2015 Ram will switch between miles/kilometers with a simple setting in the setup menu. There's nothing to convert. I'm thinking that Ford will probably have this same ability?
danrclem
Explorer
Jul 09, 2020
When you put a link of a truck on here you might be inviting competition. I found that out the hard way but it wasn't a truck that I was trying to buy.
camp-n-family
Explorer
Jul 09, 2020
If you’re looking to tow a fiver you do not want a truck that’s lifted 4”. The stock height of newer trucks is already too high for a lot of trailer.
Grit_dog
Navigator
Jul 08, 2020
And it's a scuzzy used car lot. If you want one way to be certain you will never have a clue what the real history is on the vehicle, buy it form a guy named Vinny with some neck chains at Tidewater Imports!
Those are all auction vehicles for one reason or another.
However, that black long box King Ranch looks pretty clean and legit, if you can get over the F250 thing. $80 gets you a set of OE F350 fender badges though!
Grit_dog
Navigator
Jul 08, 2020
ACZL wrote:
The '16 looks to have been modded if you look at the engine bay and the "Y" pipe on top (at least that's my take. Plus IMO, it looks as well that the interior has been used a fair amount judging by the creases in LR seat area.. The '15, IMO looks to be in great shape overall and int looks to be cleaner. One thing I noticed on both tho is the single tip exhaust instead of Ford's dual tip. Hmmmmm........

The silver '16 is deleted and a small lift.
The blue '15 is also deleted, small lift or level and cheap @zz janky tires. Also it was not kept clean, interior used to be dirty as ___, it was heavily detailed.

The rest of them look to have at least a leveling kit, although if you got the one with the brodozer wheels, you could sell em for about $2500...still lifted though.

So far, the best truck you've found is the one you won't consider. Unless that black one has a bad vehicle history, it's nicer than every one of the new ones you posted except the brodozer.
ford_truck_guy
Nomad
Jul 08, 2020
way2roll wrote:
One thing I noticed, the 2 trucks I like are 156" (6.75' bed). Is that a problem towing a FW or do I need to look for an 8' bed? I know they make slider hitches and a lot of the newer FW's have short bed friendly noses.

I have towed ALL of my fifth wheels with my prior 156:" WB trucks with zero issues.. Of course I had an automatic slider to assist..

this most recent truck of mine is a long bad... I will NOT go back to a short bed ! ! the difference in ride quality is night and day.. Not to mention the ability to load more cargo in the bed and not in the RV.. and standard 48 gallons of diesel.... and not using a slider and being able to hook or un hook at any angle..
BurbMan
Explorer II
Jul 08, 2020
I needed a long bed for the TC and they are waaay harder to find in a crew cab.

Forgot to mention if you've ever served, USAA has a great car buying service and good loan rates. I got my 2015 at 3.49%
way2roll
Navigator II
Jul 08, 2020
One thing I noticed, the 2 trucks I like are 156" (6.75' bed). Is that a problem towing a FW or do I need to look for an 8' bed? I know they make slider hitches and a lot of the newer FW's have short bed friendly noses.
BurbMan
Explorer II
Jul 08, 2020
The gray one looks really clean! The blue is a very pretty color and you don't see many with that butter interior.

I bought a "package" from CarFax that was like $50 and gave me unlimited reports for a time period. I ran a CarFax on every single truck I looked at. Now CF is not the be-all and end-all, but it has useful info. My #1 criteria was service records...if you can confirm that the oil was changed and scheduled service was done than mileage becomes less important.

#2 criteria was looking for lift kits, big wheels, etc, that might indicate the diesel was also chipped at some point. Now, there's nothing wrong with a lift kit per se, what I'm looking for is adult-owned not adulterated.

Unfortunately Ford tokenizes their window stickers so it's hard to look back and see what options came on the truck when it was new. With Ram you can just type in the VIN and get the sticker on any vehicle, so you can see stuff like HD alternator, snow plow prep package, etc that may not be visible on a walk-around.

Looks like it's worth a trip to go look these over and driven them around.
ACZL
Explorer
Jul 08, 2020
The '16 looks to have been modded if you look at the engine bay and the "Y" pipe on top (at least that's my take. Plus IMO, it looks as well that the interior has been used a fair amount judging by the creases in LR seat area.. The '15, IMO looks to be in great shape overall and int looks to be cleaner. One thing I noticed on both tho is the single tip exhaust instead of Ford's dual tip. Hmmmmm........