"Deleted" trucks

[eightpondfarm]

One day i was beginning my haulin to dressage lesson with two horses loaded in my all-steel box trailer and as i was beginning the ascent up the first hill i pressed on the gas and asked for more and it gave me less. So, i made it up the hill and backed it up into a lane, unloaded the horses, called coach and xxcl’d lesson-- and began looking for a new (used) truck. Called an old friend at the Ford dealership and one of the main guys was going up to Chicago to look at some auction trucks…specifically to get one for himself. I told him to get two…one for me also. He came back with two, one gas one diesel. My choice. I chose the diesel. Had 88k miles on it. 2019 F250 Heavy Duty diesel. Hooked it up to my trailer and HOLY COW!!! the difference between i and my 2003 F250 diesel was like night and day. So far i’m very happy with the purchase. We named it “Crispin” (after a big white rabbit)

Oh, and one of the mechanics, the one who kept the old F250 going for us all those years, bought it. 175,000 miles. I let him have it for 5,000. And we’re both happy. I loved that truck and it will feel good to see it around town. I teared up a little bit when i drove it in to him…

[SusanO]

I had an old Chevy gas truck (1995) and the difference in hauling power and this diesel was huge. I bought the Chevy in 1997 and it only had 16k miles on it and it was a great truck. I traded it out to my mowing guy at 100k miles for several free field mowings because I didn’t trust to haul horses with. He put about $4k into it, mostly body work and repainting and it is going strong. Unlike this lemon.

I paid $200 expedited shipping for the parts to delete the exhaust system and got the package Thursday. Only they didn’t send all the parts so the mechanic could do the job this weekend and I would have a truck to get hay. Really pissed at the company (not the mechanic) for not letting me know they didn’t have all the parts I paid for in their package. Paid using credit card so if I don’t get them I will send stuff back and dispute the charges.

I hate this truck.

[Annie10]

@Cowgirl

I know! The stereo option in the tailgate is ridiculous! I do kind of like the AC plug in the tailgate, even if I can’t figure out what I’d use it for (assume it’s for the blender to mix the margs for the tailgate party). I’d still rather have seat heaters on a 65k vehicle!

It’s for tools .

[Ambitious_Kate]

What does it mean to “delete” a truck? Sorry, I don’t know what that means.

[endlessclimb]

Remove the (poorly thought out and performance/reliability impacting) EPA equipment from the truck, and then over riding the PCM/ECM programming to fool the truck into thinking everything is hunky dory.

[SusanO]

I never had any problems with performance except when the truck didn’t want to perform. It wasn’t a daily driver so when I needed the truck to run, I would go out, crank it up and the check engine light would be on. I would go out and hook up to the trailer and everything would be fine but the next morning when I had to be somewhere - there was the check engine light. The last straw was when I got in it and the light was on and it told me it was going to shut me down to 55mph in 80 miles. Just out of the blue.

So far the “procedure” has solved those problems and it has been behaving. I would like a new truck but my pocketbook doesn’t want to pay for one.

[SonnysMom]

My 2011 F360 was deleted by the prior owner. Dh rolled it and totaled it. Now have a 2012 Ford F350 that is not deleted. No issues with the 2012 other than an oxygen sensor that was under warranty. Had the same under the 2011.
Same gas mileage between the two. Maybe better power with the 2012 that is not deleted