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brainpause Enthusiast

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Nice truck. I do love the looks of the F250 & F350. Hope they've got the PowerStroke ironed out for ya!

 

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I did my research and everything points to yes. I spoke to a good friend of mine who runs the parts and service department for the largest Ford dealer here. We shall see

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I did my research and everything points to yes. I spoke to a good friend of mine who runs the parts and service department for the largest Ford dealer here. We shall see

 

 

decided to strike on the ford eh?? nice rig man, you know what im actually thinkin about buying one as well. i want to wait a few years to see how the 6.7 performs, my dad loves his. and that thing can tow pretty good, its a fine truck. the other day he txt me he was getting 11 litres per 100 kms @110km/h...pretty damn good for a diesel 1 ton thats got less than 10 000kms on it. i respect your decision. now all you gotta do is cut that piss tank and UREA system off for a turbo back chimney pipe and upload a 310 Spartan tune :thumbs: . i have been in a 6.4 with a 310 spartan in it and HOLY MOTHER @*(*#$@@!!!!!!! that thing could haul a$$$$$

 

I did my research and everything points to yes. I spoke to a good friend of mine who runs the parts and service department for the largest Ford dealer here. We shall see

 

 

decided to strike on the ford eh?? nice rig man, you know what im actually thinkin about buying one as well. i want to wait a few years to see how the 6.7 performs, my dad loves his. and that thing can tow pretty good, its a fine truck. the other day he txt me he was getting 11 litres per 100 kms @110km/h...pretty damn good for a diesel 1 ton thats got less than 10 000kms on it. i respect your decision. now all you gotta do is cut that piss tank and UREA system off for a turbo back chimney pipe and upload a 310 Spartan tune :thumbs: . i have been in a 6.4 with a 310 spartan in it and HOLY MOTHER @*(*#$@@!!!!!!! that thing could haul a$$$$$

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funny. I asked the same question to a mechanic about the UREA and he looked at me with troubled eyes. It will be done when the warranty runs out but it's only needing a fill every oil change or so. All new diesels starting 2013 are required to have the same crap by the "all knowing" EPA so we are all screwed. I still love GM and will push the wife to a car when her Benz fad is over if I ever get her to ride the Buick Regal Turbo, what a nice little car.

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GPGuy Senior Enthusiast

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Very nice looking truck ....for a Ford. lol (jk) The F250s are nice looking rigs for sure. My friends dad is going to be buying one this year too...he's just trying to figure out exactly what options he wants. He currently has an 05 F250 diesel and had an 00 F250 V10 before that and has owned Ford trucks all of his life.

Any interior pictures?

Carder09 Senior Enthusiast

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From my previous post before, I wrote about an older model of the ford f-350 I was driving at work. They gave me an upgrade to an 2011 with only 4200 miles on it, the other crew who drove it did not take care of it and dented the rear left pass door and bed pretty good, I have to say that this one drives a whole lot better than the other one which I think was an 09. It has a 6 speed with the 6.7 and even though we only go a max of 40kph or 25mph, we see well over 25mpg lol. Only thing is that we never get out of 4th gear so I couldn't tell you much more about mpg's after that but otherwise nice shifting and performance is great.

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