Hey Beast,

Both are 4x4. The 19 sold this afternoon. We'll be moving forward with the 2017. I build a new one using the same specs as the 17 and its was well outside of my price range. Currently this makes sense of us and will take the plunge. Pick it up tomorrow after it gets smogged

Cheers all

 

Very good, fits your budget, wants and needs. Should serve you well.

I'm aware of two 2017 Lariat diesels at nearby dealerships, both under 50k miles and both priced way to close to new. One $69k the other $74k. At those kinda prices one could get an equally equipped '22 for the same or even less. Tough time to be a buyer in the used car market.

 

Of course, pictures or it didn’t happen!!!

 

lol, Hey Beast,

I'll have pictures up the moment I get it home. If timing is right we'll be down there around 11 am. From there I have some errands to run that will eat up a few hours. There will be several photo's in the future.

Cheers all,

 

Okay Ford Trucks,

As promised here are some pictures of my newly acquired 2017 Lariat PSD.

I took my wife out to lunch about an hour away. Love this truck. The on demand power is amazing as well as the efficiency when cruising. Can't wait to get my Trailer hooked up and down the road.

Cheers

 

jrburcell,

Beautiful truck. Enjoy

 

Thank you TXS!

 

Sharp looking truck. Hope it brings you many miles of happiness!

 

Great looking truck !! I hope it gives you great service like 2017 does.


That is crazy !! I paid $63,000 new out the door for my nicely equipped 2017 Lariat ordered truck, which now has 31,000 miles on it. If I wasn’t still pulling a 5th wheel I might consider selling………naw, it runs too good and I have it set up just like I want it.

 

It is definitely not a buyers market.

We do not regret our decision even though prices are out of whack everywhere.

I do have one quick question though,

I noticed the Particulate Filter is at 90%. Is there something I should do now or wait for it to go into a REGEN automatically. I've seen a few videos where you can turn the auto off and do it manually but just want to make sure first.

For all inquiring minds... we paid 58k for this truck.

Cheers all

JB

 

Edit,

This morning when I went out the DPF was back to 0%. Probably went through Regen when we were driving home yesterday.

Cheers

JB

 

Good morning FTE!

Been a minute since I posted anything new. Thought I'd come back and share something from last weekend that turned out, in my opinion a happy accident. It did cost me some coin though... LOL

Anyway,

The BFG K2's that came on the 17 literally wore away in less than a year. When we bought the truck Ford put two brand new on the rear and the front had about 80% life on them. Fast forward to the past weekend the new were down to 50% and the other two racing slicks. For the record I've never intentionally spun these tires. I did some asking around and the consensus is that BFG changed the formula on the K2's making them too soft. I drive around with the tow/haul on as I like the way the truck down shifts when I brake. With the wind down you can often hear the tires dragging across the pavement.

Unimpressed with the K2's I went back to my go to brand and bought a set of Toyo's. I have exclusively ran Toyo AT's or MT's with just about any truck or 4x4 I've owned. The tire shop I went to recommended the Toyo RT's. At the time I didn't know RT's were a thing so I was intrigued. Decided to give them a shot and away we went.

Here is where things get weird and slightly embarrassing. I think age is getting to me!

I drive it home, a short distance so I never got a real feel for the new tires. I did noticed it seems to require a lot of correction while driving. I just assumed new aggressive tread and it go away after a bit of driving. The next day I drove it a few hundred miles and man it was scary to drive on the freeway. Like playing ping pong between the lines or driving a 40 foot class A motorhome in 30 mph wind. It was awful so I ground the truck until I could get back to the tire shop. A well known national tire place that has always done good by me and my rigs.

I finally get it in and at first the techs aren't taking me serious. Stating it cant possible to do what I am describing. Before I forget there was a minor alignment done to correct some toe issues but no caster/camber adjust. The steering felt like there was zero return. Turn it right, let go and it'd drive right. The tech agreed to go and was baffled that it performed exactly as I described. We returned to the shop and the consensus was I got a bad set of tires. So the tossed on a new set, Toyo MT's this time as they didn't have another set of RT's. The swap didn't make a change. I agreed to let them keep the truck to really go through everything. I suggest the re-look at the alignment since it was changed slightly.

This is where things get embarrassing for me because I could have easily solved the issue on my own if I had just "looked"

Apparently while adjusting the Toe the tech some how moved the center bracket of my stabilizer to far forward causing the bracket to drag across the lower steering link. Just enough resistance to keep the steering wheel from having any return to it. This would have been a 10 min fix in my driveway had I not been so lazy.

After all that, a new set of more expensive tires I was back on the road. While collecting my truck I was chatting with the GM in the lot as he was showing which bracket to look at if it should happen again I mentioned the desire, in the very far future of getting a set of wheels that would bring the tires flusher with the fender. Turns out this shop had a set of Wheels that were ordered for a 19 version of my truck and the buyer passed as there were some wheel cap issues that didn't work for him. These were out of inventory and unable to sell through the store. Brand new XD's Badlands just sitting around. I checked them out and asked what he wanted for them and he said he couldn't sell them as new but would make it worth my while. And that he did!

Long winded way to share new wheels and tires but hey it was an adventure to say the least. I know some will say it was deliberate to up sale but I am confident that was not the case here.

and here are the pics of the new set up.

35x12.50x20 Toyo MT's
XD Badlands 20x9 with a -12 offset.

A tad on the wide side and if this was a planned event I would have got to an 18 but that is a minor set back.

Let me know what you think and cheers for reading

 

Those look great.

 

Thanks Redford,

Now the great debate (in my head) is to ditch the 2" BDS leveling kit and go with their 4" kit or just leave it as it is...

I have my eyes on the BDS 4" Radius Arm kit

 

your truck looks great.

That said, My KO2's are a year old and look brand new. That is after about 15,000 miles and about 5,000 of that towing our 10,000 pound travel trailer. There is nothing wrong with KO2s. You did not mentioned how many miles you drove over that year, but I can assure you that if your mileage was anything under 50k, it wasn't the tires.

KO2s are a bit softer than some tires, but not that soft. Since you were running fronts and backs bought at a different time, that eliminated the chances of getting a band batch.