I’m looking at trading my 2019 F-350 6.7 long box for a 2020 tremor 7.3 I found this week.
please give any thoughts !
I use the truck 85% of the time with 750-1000lbs of gear in the back most of which are in a tool box. I pull a goose neck horse trailer 10-15 times a year max 3-4 hours usually an hour or less. I move hay loads once a year 10 miles. Other than that it is going to be driven with just the tool box and our kids as passengers.
I am at the point where I’m just annoyed with diesels. Everything from the additional fuel costs, oil change cost, fuel filters, def and really the most annoying part of a newer diesel is I like to let my trucks idle for warm up, glassing/hunting/ranching and I know letting a newer diesel idle for an extended amount of time is not ideal. Also tired of smelling the truck in regen mode. Without fail it loves to burn off on my 2 miles of slow gravel on the way home and then I pull in the driveway and it just stinks and smelling def gets old.
I live at elevation of 4500-5200 feet and will pull a few spots going down 2-3k feet as well as one spot around 6000 But I won’t regularly be pulling steep mtn passes with big loads and when I do I don’t have to set land speed records horses in tow.
ID prefer a long box and the bigger fuel tank but at the same time there is some benefit to the short and I think I have talked myself through that part. I like the simplicity of the 7.3 and I’m hoping to keep this rig for 100-200k miles and dealing with fixing new diesels with higher mileage is not something I want to depend on the extended warranty fairys for.
As long as the gas tremor will get 14-15 mpg avg I’m ok with that. My diesel gets around that anyway if in town or pulling and slightly better if On the hwy and under 75 mph.
I have thought about just waiting another year but that puts my 2019 with more depreciation, new tires and tags at that point. Pulling trigger now saves me about 2000$ just in expenses I’m looking at for running the 2019 another year.
Any thoughts is much appreciated from either side of the fence!! I love my 2019 6.7 overall but I do see many upsides to the 7.3.
Cheers
please give any thoughts !
I use the truck 85% of the time with 750-1000lbs of gear in the back most of which are in a tool box. I pull a goose neck horse trailer 10-15 times a year max 3-4 hours usually an hour or less. I move hay loads once a year 10 miles. Other than that it is going to be driven with just the tool box and our kids as passengers.
I am at the point where I’m just annoyed with diesels. Everything from the additional fuel costs, oil change cost, fuel filters, def and really the most annoying part of a newer diesel is I like to let my trucks idle for warm up, glassing/hunting/ranching and I know letting a newer diesel idle for an extended amount of time is not ideal. Also tired of smelling the truck in regen mode. Without fail it loves to burn off on my 2 miles of slow gravel on the way home and then I pull in the driveway and it just stinks and smelling def gets old.
I live at elevation of 4500-5200 feet and will pull a few spots going down 2-3k feet as well as one spot around 6000 But I won’t regularly be pulling steep mtn passes with big loads and when I do I don’t have to set land speed records horses in tow.
ID prefer a long box and the bigger fuel tank but at the same time there is some benefit to the short and I think I have talked myself through that part. I like the simplicity of the 7.3 and I’m hoping to keep this rig for 100-200k miles and dealing with fixing new diesels with higher mileage is not something I want to depend on the extended warranty fairys for.
As long as the gas tremor will get 14-15 mpg avg I’m ok with that. My diesel gets around that anyway if in town or pulling and slightly better if On the hwy and under 75 mph.
I have thought about just waiting another year but that puts my 2019 with more depreciation, new tires and tags at that point. Pulling trigger now saves me about 2000$ just in expenses I’m looking at for running the 2019 another year.
Any thoughts is much appreciated from either side of the fence!! I love my 2019 6.7 overall but I do see many upsides to the 7.3.
Cheers