I’ve been a Ford guy most of my life and enjoyed good service from them, but only a couple diesels. I’m not sold on the reliability or economy of diesel trucks. I’ve put the pencil to it too many times. When I was working in the oil field I drove F250s exclusively. After the first diesel, I went to the V10 gasser. I’ve had 6 or 8 of them including F250s and Excursions. Only problem ever with engines was one coil went bad in my first Excursion. I drove these trucks to just under 200K miles to over 250K miles and they never missed a lick. Even at gas prices back then, I drove free for the first 75K on the price difference between a diesel engine and the V10.
Now, I said all that to say this: I hear about a lot of front end problems with the new trucks that Ford will not acknowledge even exists. They will warranty them, but put the same OEM parts back and the guys say that it is not a fix, just a bandaid. It takes after market parts to effect a real fix. Based on so many of these reports I don’t think I would buy one. That would put me in a bind if I were in the market, because you couldn’t run fast enough to give me a Chevy, I’d hang my head and buy a Goat first.
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