My wife had an 08 f250 jacked up with 37's, tuned, all deletes, finally fucked off the egr cooler while driving and messed the engine up a bit lol. Hers had 225k miles, and countless passes down the drag strip (13.7 with the lift and tires) so I bought me an 08 f450 that was bone stock, had like 65k miles ish when I got it. Ran perfectly fucking fine until I was coming back from Texas to Okc..middle of no where I had a front left tire explode...ripples the fender completely off, door was fucked, running board, 5400 in body damage...put a spare on and the steering is completely fucked, 55mph and I'm like 350 miles from the house, long trip home!
Got 6 new tires(19.5 tires are real cheap) took it to a shop where insurance was supposed to pay for tie rods and stuff, fuckkkk me those are not covered by my fat fucking insurance adjuster..extra 1300 out of pocket, plus the tires, so I leave the front end shop...crazy loud metal on metal screamin sound, high pressure turbo is shot, limp it home, tear it apart.. Find some turbos down the road from the in laws place, trade the guy a mint Winchester rifle, and my competition shooting .45 and he gives me turbos and 300 bucks. Put em on, drive 200 miles and the exhaust turbine snaps off the fucking shaft on the high pressure turbo, burns the seals up, oil pours down my intercooler and through my engine to my shitty exhaust dpf..
So so I rebuild my first set that took a dump, fire it up, and my exhaust filter is completely clogged so im driving around like 35 miles and park it, seemed long enough. Leave the house and head to pick up my camper to go on a job, get 15 miles from the house it sounds like my 6.4 is about to have a high speed come apart with a bag of hammers in it, being in regen so long from the dpf being clogged, burned my egr cooler the fuck up, sent water into engine, bent a rod damn near around the crank..
all of of this was with a completely stock truck, even stock air filter.
The he wifes had 225k miles when it took a dump but had around 130k ish when er bought it, basically 100k with a tuner turned all the way up
I got home from the blowout ordeal on Valentine's Day 2015, I put less than 300 miles on my truck after that up until the day I got it back like Monday or Tuesday this week.
So so yea I'm a little more than pissed having spent 13,800 for an engine with 80k miles to be put in and the bitch is pouring oil out...
next time one I will buy something brand new with 1 or 2 miles on it with all the extra warranty I can get lol fucking diesels suck a fat black cock, and doing what I do I need one, lots of time driving up and down lease roads, idling, towing a 5th wheel..yea it does get rough being an f450 lol its like driving a rigid frame chopper down a shitty road all the time, and don't let anyone tell you the real saddle leather king ranch seats are comfortable, it's like sitting on a metal chair with a thin piece of leather around it.
I woukd love love a dirty max, 2011 and up with the lml would be ideal for sure. The Denali duramaxes are real nice too
I have a few buddies with the 2015 power strokes and they both got them deleted and tuned, both of them love their trucks and don't have a single problem out of them. Both of them deleted them cuz they idle a lot and keep clogging filters, sometimes we can't just leave to drive and clean it out
i will probly limp this truck around until the 2017 f250 comes out and get a brand new one