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troy t wrote:vern kelly wrote:Troyt: that’s the truck I want to replace mine with. DWR version. Keep us posted on the performance of the “Godzilla” and the options you got. Likes and dislikes.
My dodge still going strong but time is an enemy of us all!
So my truck is relatively bare bones, got the sport and XLT premium package but other than that nothing fancy. I'm liking heated seats so far, the Ford Pass system so I can start/lock/unlock with my phone, used the tailgate step the other day and thats pretty slick, power telescope and fold mirrors are nice primarily for the car wash and tight parking. I do wish I could've gotten adaptive cruise but by the time I ordered the model and the package to get that it would've been another $10K. Why can you have that feature in my wife's base package Subaru that cost less than $25K but not in my $70K truck? Picking up a Companion 5th wheel hitch for it tomorrow so I'm sure I'll like the Ford puck system.
The 7.3 seems very nice, hope the mileage improves a bit as I only have 500 miles on it so far. Love the 10 speed tranny. That thing shifts so nice and smooth, you can hear it shift but barely feel it, even under load. It does shift a lot though! The technology for the screens is getting vastly underused by me. I find the look I want and go with it.
Once we get the 5th wheel I'll update how I feel it tows.
Ford seems to be having a hard time getting the parts for adaptive cruise control, amongst other items. My 2016 F150 Lariet has adaptive cruise but now you have to order King Ranch or above trim level to get it. Massage seats are totally gone from the option list.
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Hey Troy, that is a manly looking truck for sure. I like the black with the deep gray. I had to special order my Black step bars from Ford ACC, and dealer already installed them when I picked it up.
While I'm not a fan of black wheels, they look great on that truck!
While lighter gray, that new Companion hitch will look nice too.
Hope you enjoy the new truck, and your new FW, when you get it!
Thanks for posting the pic,
Jerry
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Sharp looking truck!!
You’ll be ridin in style!
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MFL wrote:Hey Troy, that is a manly looking truck for sure. I like the black with the deep gray. I had to special order my Black step bars from Ford ACC, and dealer already installed them when I picked it up.
While I'm not a fan of black wheels, they look great on that truck!
While lighter gray, that new Companion hitch will look nice too.
Hope you enjoy the new truck, and your new FW, when you get it!
Thanks for posting the pic,
Jerry
Thanks. Its at a shop today getting the Line X bedliner installed. The 5th wheel we were going to look at over the weekend got sold on us so we'll have to keep our eyes open.
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Well the new F350 is in the shop already. Had the Bedliner installed and the next day the back up camera quit working. Took it back to the bedliner place and they they checked the connections and said it was all good and that I should take it to a dealer. They also said if it was their issue they'd certainly take care of it. Took it to the dealer and its a bad wiring harness. They were supposed to have a new one on Wednesday and they got the wrong one. Then they were supposed to have a new one today and it didn't come in, maybe next Tuesday. The irony is that I'm getting much better service from the place that did the $500 bed liner than I am from the place that sold me a $70k truck. The first day I had it at the dealer the bed liner shop gave me a loaner because we didn't know if it was their issue or not. After they determined it was a ford issue they told me I could keep using their demo until the truck was fixed. I didn't feel they needed to do that and returned their vehicle. Sent a email to my salesman and asked if had something I could use and it's been crickets, no response.
When I bought it it was also missing one of the small covers for the 5th wheel puck. He said he'd get it on order and I haven't heard anything in 5 weeks. Cripes, I could've ordered one from Amazon and had it in 2 days.
Maybe I'm getting too picky but that's annoying.
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^Life is much easier and less frustrating when one doesn’t ever have to talk to or deal with a car dealer for sure!
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Quadcab wrote:We just finished our 1st year towing with a F350 Lariat SWR with the 7.3 gasser. Our 5th wheel has a dry weight of 12,175 lbs. & is almost 35' long. The truck does not struggle towing our rig at all - the 10 speed automatic transmission will downshift when pulling uphill, but that is normal for this truck.
I assume the transmission is in tow mode. What gear does it hold on a flat level highway ?
What kind of fuel economy are you getting ?
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Quadcab
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In tow mode at highway speed (with our 4.30 axle) it almost always is in 10th gear. Towing our fully loaded 5th wheel, we are getting about 9 miles per gallon if it is not too hilly. Hope this helps!
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mosseater
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My only real complaint with 7.3 is, in tow mode the minute you touch the brakes going down even a moderate slope, it downshifts too low for the speed I'm carrying, so Im going down slopes in 2nd gear screaming at 5000 rpm until I ease into the gas again. I find sometimes its easier to use manual and pick the gear I want. Towing about 8200 lbs with my 3.55 I get about 9-10 on rolling hills. 11 on flats at 65. Otherwise, I have few complaints about the truck. (except that gas cap lanyard.....argh!)
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Groover
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mosseater wrote:My only real complaint with 7.3 is, in tow mode the minute you touch the brakes going down even a moderate slope, it downshifts too low for the speed I'm carrying, so Im going down slopes in 2nd gear screaming at 5000 rpm until I ease into the gas again. I find sometimes its easier to use manual and pick the gear I want. Towing about 8200 lbs with my 3.55 I get about 9-10 on rolling hills. 11 on flats at 65. Otherwise, I have few complaints about the truck. (except that gas cap lanyard.....argh!)
With my Ford I also do a lot of manual control of the gears. It seems to be too eager to down shift when the brakes are applied in tow haul mode and not eager enough to downshift when climbing hills. I would like to have the option of customizing some of the tow/haul settings, including different settings for different trailers. I don't see how that would be hard for Ford to do with everything already computerized.
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