My dad's the day we brought it home.







Sitting next to his old one that was DOA.




Vader and my Storm Trooper at work.

 

 

That's a sweet looking tow truck

 

damn SFCFX4 one new one for a slightly old one...what happened to the "old" one?ne for a slightly old one...what happened to the "old" one?

 

Made the mistake of buying it used with 120k on it, thinking it would be bulletproof like the previous two Cummins he had. Only made it to 140k before it gave us too many problems to fix. Out of warranty, we sunk about $5k into it in a 6 month period of ownership. Even though it had a fairly clean OASIS report only showing the radiator replaced at 50k, we went through that one, then a new one, and in about 2k miles it was needing another one. That last trip to the shop was going to cost $2k just to get it running with no guarantee of how much longer it could go. The tech said it looked like the exhaust manifold was warped among other things. So the dealership made us a deal, payed off that truck with the plan of robbing parts off of a bad crate motor they got and sending it off the the wholesale lot, and got us into the new one. The payments are less than desirable, but it has a warranty, and has given us zero problems in five months with 17k on it now.

It's pretty much the same identical truck as far as equipped, just a few more bells and whistles and black. Gets 15.5 in town right now on the crap winter blend diesel and cetane booster additive. Not as great as the 17 from the old Cummins, but despite that one being a dually, this Ford is actually a bigger, heavier truck with two more cylinders. It's been a fantastic truck so far and pulls like a freight train.

 

That's what I did too. I traded a 2008 F250 with 13,000 miles for a brand new 2008 F250 when the interest rates went to 0%. The principal owed went up, but the total of the payments decreased. I got leather interior, Sirius, and a few other upgrades and my payment went down.

I went from this:


to this one:

 

How did they do on your trade in value? I have 11k on my '09 F150 now and already have 0% interest, but the white paint is losing my attention and the more I see the dark graphite color, the more I want it! :o

 

My old 01.


My new 08.

 

They did me alright. MSRP on my first truck was $47k and the new one was $49k. I paid about $43k first one and it was financed at 7.9% for 66 months and I made 7 payments. When I traded it, they gave me almost $40k for it with 13k miles, and I paid about the same price for the new one, of course I didn't have to pay any taxes on the $40k for the trade-in, so I ended up with a lower payment because it was financed at 0% for 60 months. The downside of trading was that my principal amount that I owed went up, but the total amount of the payments went down, even with the one added payment. I would think that trade-in values would be even better now, since the used car market is booming and usd cars are in demand.

 

 

I would like to hope that the used marked would be in demand. I just checked the blue book and the edmunds value on my F150 and I've already lost $10k in value on it in four months.

 

yep i was in that boat, i bought my 08 king ranch f150 new, and it depreciated so fast it was scary

 

I learned my lesson on my 03 S-10 Xtreme that I will never by a new truck again because you lose some much to depreciation the minute you drive them off the lot. I only owned that truck for 3 years and dumped it because I got married and needed a bigger truck for the family. I bought it new for 25k and three years later I got 9,900 for it on trade with 36k on the odometer and it never saw winter because I had a winter beater.

 

This is my '06 F250

 

how do you load a picxture?