Your best Truck & Your Wost

[CurlyDave]

No contest.

All time worst has been the 2004 F250 with the 6.0 liter diesel. Bought it used 3 years ago as a hunting rig -- tow the trailer up to camp and then drive it around to hunt from. Not road hunting, just drive to locations where we put out stands and walkers.

It has been towed home every year that I have owned it. Every year something else, but a 150 mile tow.

Only 88k miles right now. I would sell it in a heartbeat and get something else if I didn't drive it through brush every year. First time I do it, there goes about $8 k worth of resale value.

Hopefully this summer my mechanic friend and I are going to "bulletproof" the 6.0 diesel. Essential bring it up to about the 2008 version, which was a lot more reliable.

 

[Citydude]

OK - How can you live in Wyoming and only put 87k on a vehicle in 13 years?

It has set in the garage most of its life. I only use it to pull a 5th wheel or haul my tractor from time to time.

 

[milligjg]

Best 87 Chevy Silverado, my Dad bought new (I still have it)

Worst-05 Ford F150, went back to a Chevy 3 months ago (ah yes)

 

[check]

Best is my current 2016 F150 Supercrew XLT/XTR with the "302A" package and 5.0 litre. LOVE the navigation option, and the tailgate step. Also like the "roar" from the exhaust that you apparently don't get with the ecoboost.

There was no worst. I have been very happy with all of my 4 previous F150s (2006, 2008, 2010, and 2014). The 2010 did have a cracked manifold early on, but that was fixed under warranty so it cost me nothing.

 

[Citydude]

There's a story in there.

Yeah, I just couldn't cruse around with it. The need for speed was always tugging at me. No story, just knew that my risky behavior was on a fast track for something not good to happen.

 

[Creamer]

Best is my current 2016 F150 Supercrew XLT/XTR with the "302A" package and 5.0 litre. LOVE the navigation option, and the tailgate step. Also like the "roar" from the exhaust that you apparently don't get with the ecoboost.

There was no worst. I have been very happy with all of my 4 previous F150s (2006, 2008, 2010, and 2014). The 2010 did have a cracked manifold early on, but that was fixed under warranty so it cost me nothing.

Is that the same old 5.0L (302) that Ford has been trying to sell for 40 years?

 

[draw54]

Considering purchasing a 93 Ford F250 turbo diesel, 5sp manual, 4x4, 175k miles asking price is $7,100. Saw on Craigslist: 1993 Ford F25 Turbo Diesel

 

[dieselcrawler]

Is that the same old 5.0L (302) that Ford has been trying to sell for 40 years?

Doubt it.... the old 302's didn't come with coil packs and multiport fuel injection. We have one at work...

 

[Snobdds]

No contest.

All time worst has been the 2004 F250 with the 6.0 liter diesel. Bought it used 3 years ago as a hunting rig -- tow the trailer up to camp and then drive it around to hunt from. Not road hunting, just drive to locations where we put out stands and walkers.

It has been towed home every year that I have owned it. Every year something else, but a 150 mile tow.

Only 88k miles right now. I would sell it in a heartbeat and get something else if I didn't drive it through brush every year. First time I do it, there goes about $8 k worth of resale value.

Hopefully this summer my mechanic friend and I are going to "bulletproof" the 6.0 diesel. Essential bring it up to about the 2008 version, which was a lot more reliable.

See I love my 6.0 diesel. I have had to do some work to make it reliable, but once I did, it has been fantastic. It's a motor you have to have a monitor using a scan gauge, torque pro, or something similar and it will tell you when attention is needed. All the problems are known and have factory Ford fixes. The Ford 6.4 is the hot rod motor of diesel engines. Insanely quick and a torque monster with a tune and emissions delete, but you think a 6.0 is a lot of work...the 6.4 will make a person poor real quick.

I use my 6.0 to two anything and everything up to my cabin in the mountains. It's been a stone cold reliable hauler. I would buy another one in a heartbeat knowing what I know now about them.

It's not a motor that you can just put oil and fuel into and go. A person has to keep up on the maintenance, especially the coolant, and it will treat you right.

 

[orezok]

I don't know if I would call this my BEST truck, but when I was in college in the 60's, we needed a truck for general hauling. The local caterpillar dealer had some old International 1 ton pickups for sale (commonly known as binders). Paid $150 for it. One was used as a track truck and had 1/4" plate lining the bed and tailgate and a solid 1" steel rear bumper. It was some variety of V8 with a 4 speed. I think we did everything possible to kill that truck and it would not die. Started up every time no matter how long it set.

I don't know what the GVW was, but with all the steel armor, it must have been less than desirable. I can remember one time we loaded the thing with dirt piled high until it was overflowing the sides. Then it sat out in the rain for a while. I can't imagine how much it was over gross, but it still kept going.

Had that thing for 4 to 5 years and never put a dime into it.