I currently have a '99 F250 Superduty V10 with a 180,000 km on it. It's been a great truck but I think it's getting time to consider a new one or start sprucing this one up a bit. It is currently stock except for a Diablo chip.
I priced out a 2004 PSD but with everything said and done it $40,000 cdn + trading in my truck. My second option is putting $10,000 into my truck (windshield, rims, exhaust....). I know that fixing up an older truck is throwing away money but so is the depreciation on new vehicles as well.
I use my truck for work, mainly measuring up jobs, but I also have a 20' Nash travel trailer and I go to the mountain sledding around 5-6 times a season. Any opinions on whether to go new or fix up the old girl?? Thanks in advance.

 

It all depends on how well you’ve maintained the truck. If the frame and body is still in good shape and the paint is not peeling off, then I would go for it. With that many miles on it I would start saving up for another engine, though. Not much, but a hundred or so each month – unless you want to do the removal/installation yourself. I have seen posts here of well over 200K miles and the engines were still in good working order.

It’s the little things that really bring a truck down; rattles, cracks, wind noise, etc. But, all-in-all it’s how well the truck was taken care of – and how much you are willing to spend on it.

I have an old ’73 F250 that I was glad I put the extra money into a few years ago. It was worth it to me.

 

The truck is in excellent shape because I'm pretty picky. Most people that don't know much about differences in years of the Fords think my truck is a 2002-2003 and can't believe it has 180,000 km. There is very little for squeaks and rattles, I just don't want to put money into it and have my engine, tranny, etc. crater in another 30,000!!

 

well isn't 180,000km roughly 112k miles? I would sure hope that with proper care you can get alot more than that out of these engines!

 

KM's? I need to pay more attention! Yes, you have many miles (kilometers) left on that truck.

 

You gotta figure the day you buy a new rig that it loses 25% of it's value, it goes from being a brand new car, to being a used car. Sure Ford trucks always bring book or even over book, just like Toyota cars. I always consider what the monthly payment would be on a new rig, and then figure if I put in even half that amount I could rebuild the old car in half the time I'd spend making payments. Besides the fact that once you rebuild something, you know exactly what you've got. If you rig is in as good a shape as you say it is, I would definitely rebuild. You find a newer, high horse motor and tranny combo to go in it, put in some Recaro seats, or something you like. Add a DVD entertainment center, custom wheels, a supercharger, on and on and on and still be at less than half what you'd pay for a new rig. And isn't it the custom cars/trucks that turn our heads when we see them driving around town ? I worked for a guy once that had a 73 F-350 that had close to a million miles on the frame. He had slowly replaced everything on it, including 4 or 5 460's, new tranny's, etc. But he was still way ahead of the game financially. That truck of his became a legend around town, it outlived it's owner. I tried to buy it from his widow but I couldn't afford what was finally bid on it. I still see it around town, it's still working for a living.