The rust doesn't really bother me on a cheaper truck like this, cuz no matter what I get, it's going to have some rust.. The supercrew bothered me cuz I had 8k out on it and I didn't want to have that kind of money out on a rusty truck. When I bought it it was clean, the rockers werent soft, and just through this winter they got pretty bad.
It has 175k, but I work at the Dealership and I see 200k+ F150s come in all the time for oil changes and what not. I know they can last awhile.
My 80's way of thinking? LMMFAO.. Guys, I design parts for these things for a living. It's what I do. That being said.. there's not much of anything on one of these things that was ever designed to go 200k + miles. There's no money in it. They want you to buy new vehicles.. not drive the same one until you're dead and they don't want to pay the price for components that would be designed to live that long, either. Hell, most of the diesel stuff that I do only has a required service life of 250k. westtn, no offense... but have you ever noticed how that everything that you've ever owned is somehow better than what everybody else has ever owned?
^^^^^^^ lol I got over 200k and no major repairs or problems I can still beat chebbys It runs fine and shifts fine Only 2 things piss me off with it - the idle problem which I'm thinking is the alternator - and my gas tank roars at me like right at the fuel door. Which I believe it let's off fumes or so.
I bought my 97 almost 2 years ago. It had 168,000 on it then. I have 179 on it now. I did have ball joints tie rods and u joints done since then. The trans did shift kinda hard when I got it. I put some Lucas trans fix in it and its been awesome since then. I picked it up at a dealership for 3,200. The best part is 4 more payments and its all mine. I went 2 years too keep payments down in case stuff broke.
