I've got a 2019 XLT F350 SRW 6.7 4x4 long bed crew cab with about 75,000 miles on it.

My 2023 F450 does all the hauling for me now, so the 2019 F350 is mostly a truck I use for long work related road trips.

I put about 1,200 miles on it this week alone.

I was thinking about trading it in for a 2024 7.3 F250 short bed that will be used for these road trips. But for $75,000 or whatever, I don't know that I can justify it as long as the F350 is running well and not into the red zone for a 6.7. It's a business expense and I can buy it outright and make it work if it makes sense. At the same time I dont want to get rid of a fine running vehicle just for the sake of what might be around the corner.

How long would you safely own a 6.7 like this? Would you want out of it prior to 100k miles? Would you go ahead and trade it in now on a 2024 gasser like what I am describing or keep running it.

 

Me personally would keep a problem free running truck even a 6.7 but then I keep all my trucks well past 200k miles.

My 2016 F350 6.7 with 64k miles I'll keep driving even though I'm getting an occasional overboost code. All this excessive nanny crap on the new trucks is getting ridiculous.

 

Put a S&S dpk on the truck and keep driving in my opinion. That’s the one thing id hedge myself against and then id just enjoy the truck.

 

If you still like the 2019, and it is comfortable to drive, then do the CP4 replacement or DPK and drive on. The 2019's are supposed to be one of the better years to have. My friend has a 2017 F350 Dually 6.7 (360,000 miles) and transports RV's, still everything original on the truck with the DPK installed.

 

Aren't poll options #2 and #3 kind of redundant?

 

It would depend on what your account suggests. If you're making a ton of money and have depreciated it out ,rather than pay taxes I would flip it while it's worth the money. Your not in the situation that the average Joe is in.

 

I had a 2019 F450 that I sold in Nov 2021 after 2 and a half years and ordered a 2022 F350 with a 7.3. I have been very happy. Six months after selling the F450 I saw it sitting at the dealership I sold it too for 3 weeks in the repair lot out back. Wondered if I sold it just in time, it only had 24,500 miles.

 

300k - 500k miles then sell it

 

That truck is not even broken in yet. Keep it rolling, you will be very upset if you sell that trouble free truck and get to 7500 miles on that new 7.3 and lose a cam shaft.

 

I worded #3 poorly.

It was intended to give an option for another type of vehicle that the voter would suggest in a post other than the two trucks in question

 

I elect to take mileage so that I can deduct miles driven on any of the three vehicles I typically use for professional purposes. So I'm not in the rapid depreciation game like I once was when I had multiple employees in company vehicles and such

 

Since its a write off, and it sounds like you have other truck(s) if it needs a repair or two here and there its not too big a deal. With routine maintenance and once and a while accessory parts along the way (and maybe some dumb luck) I've put 250-275K on my last few work trucks. I'd run what you have if it were me.

 

pre covid truck vs post covid truck. keep it without a doubt. DPK or DCR fuel pump.

 

Ah, well that is what I'd like to do... suggest another vehicle other than the two trucks in question.

While taking the mileage deduction is tantalizing, if you no longer have employees, and you are the only driver in your business, then you can only drive one vehicle at a time.

In the meantime, these Super Duty trucks each carry a higher annual registration / weight fee, and more importantly, a higher semi-annual insurance premium cost.

If all the vehicle expenses are deducted via the mileage rate rather than actual costs, then to any extent that your actual costs are higher to keep two Super Duties insured, registered, and running... even though you are only driving one at a time... the tax deductibility is watered down by the increased expenses.

Obviously, only you know what matters more to you, but since you created a poll and asked for random opinions, one idea is to sell the 2019... thus removing the insurance and registration burden, as well as mining the cash out of the residual value inherent in a highly sought after truck, as well as reducing your risk exposure to a CP4 disaster... and replace that vehicle with a much smaller, more fuel efficient, less costly to insure, cheaper to register, more economical to maintain, and less expensive to purchase daily driver.

As an example, we have 452,000 miles on a 4 cylinder Ford Escape that is 13 years old, whereas we only have 82,000 miles on a Ford F-550 that is 24 years old.

Horses for courses.

 

I would not trade my 2019 for any newer truck. I'm at 153k and counting. The build quality of my 2019 F350 is way better than my 2022 F150.