I stumbled across a trade in a few years ago at work. A friend of mine traded in his '03 7.3 F350 4X4. At the time it had 56,000 miles. It is a super cab long bed with the FX4 package. He traded it that morning, and I bought it that afternoon. When I got home my father stopped by to see it and asked, what are you planning to tow with that? My answer was, pretty much what ever I want to. It now has 108,000 miles on it. I wouldn't sell it for $25,000. I do most of my running around on a little '95 Ranger with a 4 cyl and a 5 speed to save on gas. But I have "Brutus" for the bigger jobs. My plan was to buy it, and keep it the rest of my life. I've never had any major issues with it, and don't expect to. I've seen several of the engines with 500,000 to 750,000 miles on them. We've had a couple with over a million come into the shop. Of course, you can't expect that kind of mileage without some issues, but they are very capable. I try to drive it a least once a week or so, just to keep the fluids stirred up and the batteries in good shape.
