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I understand because I just went through the same process about a month ago. I ended up ordering a new truck exactly the way I wanted it and it is scheduled to build on Monday. The incentives that I know of available in my area (Denver, CO) are $3,000 customer cash and $1,000 Ford Motor Credit financing rebate. I think that there is also a $1,000 trade-in assistance rebate, but I am not sure that it can be combined with the others. Best of luck in your decision making process.

 

Go for it there's nothing better than a new truck

 

Uh-oh....you're gonna have a Monday truck

Just kidding! Congrats!

I assume the X-plan cannot be combined with any of these current incentives?

I'm gonna go in Monday and talk with someone...

 

I know the feeling. It took me close to two years of looking to find mine used. I had a very specific truck that I wanted and they didn't make but a few of them. Get one exactly like you want and it might be the last one you buy

 

Yup. I saw one last weekend. A 2008 4x4 6-spd reg cab dually...but it was a 6.4L. I don't want a Ford diesel. Close, but no cigar.
Then, this week, I found a 2013 with the 6.2L and only 2700 miles on it.
On Friday, I hopped in my truck and was on my way to buy it (1hr away)....I got 12 miles from the dealership and the sales guy called me and said it had just sold.

I really want a 2010 4x4 DRW V10 6-spd Reg or Ex cab. Not many bells & whistles...vinyl floor.

 

having to pay over $3/gal for diesel and then having to pay another $2+/gal for the urea that is now required would put my fuel cost over $5/gal..... gonna keep my older truck without all the new crap you need for emissions.

 

That's half the reason I'm not looking at diesels

It seems that these days, you can get to 1/4 million miles much cheaper with less breakdowns (if any) with a gasser rather than a diesel.

Hell, our '99 Windstar made it to 230k miles with just an alternator, plugs, and coils

 

I did the same thing you are. I was bored one night at work and built a truck on the website just for fun. After going over the numbers I figured out that I could get a brand new F-250 for the same payment I was making on my 4 yr old F-150. The gas costs were about even on them.

I am also in the same situation as you. The truck I wanted to buy was unique. Nobody stocks XLs loaded with all the options in Dark Blue Pearl. My dealer did a search of inventory in the entire country and couldn't find one. I refused to budge on the color.

The upside with ordering is that nobody has ever driven my truck but me. The shop took it for a 2 mile test drive after mounting my tires when I bought the truck but that's it.

I also didn't want the chrome bumpers. (Why does cruise control require chrome bumpers?) I even offered to pay the dealer's shop rate to swap the bumpers with any of the 50 trucks he had on his lot. They wouldn't do it. I just did them with PlastiDip a couple weeks after getting the truck.

Good luck and Enjoy the new truck if you get it.

 

If you want to let ignorance justify your desire for a gas truck, don't let me or anyone else get in the way.

But if NOT you'll realize that nobody makes an engine that burns 1 gallon of DEF for each gallon of fuel. It's closer to 1 gallon of DEF for ever 50 gallons of fuel. Most people average about 1,000 miles per gallon of DEF if they're not towing, and only add fluid ever 5,000 miles to the cost of around $12. The fuel savings of having an emissions-compliant engine that uses SCR instead of efficiency-robbing techniques of pre-2010 engines saves far more than the DEF could ever cost. My '11 F350 was far cheaper to operate than my '08 F250 was; both had stock Powerstroke engines.

Nope, that's not a correct assumption. If that were the case nobody would ever use X-plan, because factory incentives typically offer the lion's share of the available discount. And don't settle for MSRP - factory incentives; dealers cleave thousands off the sale price on nearly every truck sold. You can typically expect to see $5-6,000 off a lower-end truck, and upwards of $10,000 off a Lariat or above.

 

I didn't see cab clearance lights on your list of options but I see them on the picture from the Ford web page. Best $55 you can spend on a new truck.

Gas/Diesel, that's a choice left up to you. I see both sides. If you don't need the power of a diesel, go gas....

 

You spend 15% more at the pump for diesel but get 30%+ better fuel mileage vs similar sized gas engine. Who is paying more for fuel?

 

When I started looking for mine I wanted a regular cab, gas engine, manual everything, vinyl floor, xl package, 4 wheel drive and island blue color. Yeah, I know, very picky lol. Ford made about 400,000 super dutys a year. 2% were stick shifts, so 8,000. 25% were gassers, so 2,000. My color was in a group of 5 that combined were less than 1%, so 20 total of all 5 colors. 4 each if divided equally. Break that down further by xl, reg cab, 4wd and throw in that the color was only made for 3 years and I was looking for a truck that there were only about 4 or 5 made just like it. I say hold out until you get what you want.

 

Hey I ordered one like that. You can't find XL trim package anywhere near here that isn't oxford white.


(signed)
fellow unicorn owner

 

If it is a dually it will have the lights already, but i agree, best option on a truck