Sell your POS NOW!!
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Sell your POS NOW!!
I have an 08 F250, 140k, in pretty good shape.
Motor blew on Saturday. $18,000 to replace.
If you think your truck has anything wrong with it, go get rid of it.
Learn from my mistake!!
They offered me less than $6000 the way it sits.
Ouch...
Motor blew on Saturday. $18,000 to replace.
If you think your truck has anything wrong with it, go get rid of it.
Learn from my mistake!!
They offered me less than $6000 the way it sits.
Ouch...
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Im assuming you have the 6.4 based on 18k. Have you taken it to the dealer or is a shop telling you this? What was the cause of the failure, I know of several 6.4's 08's in a fleet that are nearing 200k with no issues.
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Sorry for your luck..can you tell us the reason for the failure? What kind of maintance did you do to the truck.
Fuel filters and oil changes at what interval?
I would not say they are all bad. Motors do have issues sometimes, even the newest one that Ford designed and built in-house.
So did you ever get a reason?
Fuel filters and oil changes at what interval?
I would not say they are all bad. Motors do have issues sometimes, even the newest one that Ford designed and built in-house.
So did you ever get a reason?
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Stuff breaks, but you've been given a tough pill to swallow. Like the others suggested you should get some more price quotes, there's no reason you need a brand new engine.
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And it just let go for no reason, you never beat it, not running hot, and the oil was clean and full?
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Wow, tough crowd. Haha. Yes, I shopped around. That price was given to me by 2 Ford houses. My personal mechanic told me 10-12k for a used/rebuit motor.
I baby my trucks and my cars and my Harleys. I am very ocd when it comes to maintenance. Every fluid and filter changed on time. I keep very detailed records.
So to answer a smart *** question, it never ran hot, and was full of clean oil.
As far as the cause, I am not sure. It dropped cyliner #2 badly and has no compression. My point for this post was, if you think something is not right, it's not.
I have been putting off trading this truck off for 2 months.
Although it is a major in-convenience and very costly, I am not all that bitter.
Hope to pick up my '13 this week.
Cheers
I baby my trucks and my cars and my Harleys. I am very ocd when it comes to maintenance. Every fluid and filter changed on time. I keep very detailed records.
So to answer a smart *** question, it never ran hot, and was full of clean oil.
As far as the cause, I am not sure. It dropped cyliner #2 badly and has no compression. My point for this post was, if you think something is not right, it's not.
I have been putting off trading this truck off for 2 months.
Although it is a major in-convenience and very costly, I am not all that bitter.
Hope to pick up my '13 this week.
Cheers
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Yeah, it's hard to believe sometimes but it's not as uncommon as you may think. We've seen a few in the 6.7L and 6.4L forums with $15-20,000 repair bills from catastrophically failed well maintained engines.
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Folks, Lets keep it nice. It serves no useful purpose to insult.
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