leeparnell89
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Long time lurker here, first time posting.
A little back story. I've owned nothing but cummins diesel pickups. I drove a 2011ish powerstroke as a company truck for several months and loved it. It was like heaven compared to my 07 3rd gen. Early 2020 I was weighing a new F350 and a cummins 3500 pretty heavily but ultimately the cummins won due to price and ease of trade at my current dealer among other things. I've now owned a new 2020 and two new ordered 2022's and have had nothing but problems with both from day one. My current dodge dealership has also been sold and due to their business model, will no longer have my business. The ford house one town over is one of the best around and is also leading this consideration.
All of this to say, I'm fed up and considering making the jump. I like what I'm hearing about the 10 speeds, but understand the caveats. I don't put many highway miles on one, mainly 60-65mph on blacktop and some dirt roads. Tow pretty heavy and pretty frequently. Mild driving habits but some putting around the ranch, no idling. The main highway miles will be towing campers and vehicles to and from the deer lease.
The thing I'm having trouble with is HOLY SHIT they're expensive. I paid $59k for a fully loaded tradesman DRW and $64k for a fully loaded lone star mega cab 2500, got about $5k off of MSRP each. The Ford pricing makes my stomach hurt. I've only done some internet searching so I don't know if that's what dealers are expecting or if that's what they're going for. Most are at or decently above MSRP. Hoping people here have their ear to the ground a little better than I have yet.
So my questions are:
- Are dealers coming off of MSRP at all? I'm about to start pricing it out locally but figured I'd ask the experts first.
- What is fuel mileage like with 35's and 3.55's? Currently have 35's and 4.10's on my DRW and get about 10-12 AT BEST with elderly driving habits. Not terribly impressed because it's also a laggy pig.
- Would the 10 speed be good for my driving habits? Would be a F350 long bed with 35's, can't decide between SRW and DRW.
- What are current lead times looking like? On here I've seen some having 8-9 month lead times but some as low as 4 months. Granted the longer lead times are higher trim pickups and I will probably only be interested in a Lariat at most, if that.
- Is the new radio/tech buggy and/or glitchy? I could write a novel about the radio/tech/ECM issues I've had.
- Can the XLT be optioned with the proximity entry option, with the button on the door handle? Is this what the "Autolock/Auto Unlock" is on the XLT Value and Premium Packages? I hate having to access my keys to only unlock the truck, when the button is an availability. This would make me jump to Lariat if not, call me spoiled.
Appreciate any help, don't be too hard on me for owning a Cummins. I still love watching the builds on here, I followed Black AOD's, Jomax's, and bigrpower's builds for a long time while I was dreaming.
A little back story. I've owned nothing but cummins diesel pickups. I drove a 2011ish powerstroke as a company truck for several months and loved it. It was like heaven compared to my 07 3rd gen. Early 2020 I was weighing a new F350 and a cummins 3500 pretty heavily but ultimately the cummins won due to price and ease of trade at my current dealer among other things. I've now owned a new 2020 and two new ordered 2022's and have had nothing but problems with both from day one. My current dodge dealership has also been sold and due to their business model, will no longer have my business. The ford house one town over is one of the best around and is also leading this consideration.
All of this to say, I'm fed up and considering making the jump. I like what I'm hearing about the 10 speeds, but understand the caveats. I don't put many highway miles on one, mainly 60-65mph on blacktop and some dirt roads. Tow pretty heavy and pretty frequently. Mild driving habits but some putting around the ranch, no idling. The main highway miles will be towing campers and vehicles to and from the deer lease.
The thing I'm having trouble with is HOLY SHIT they're expensive. I paid $59k for a fully loaded tradesman DRW and $64k for a fully loaded lone star mega cab 2500, got about $5k off of MSRP each. The Ford pricing makes my stomach hurt. I've only done some internet searching so I don't know if that's what dealers are expecting or if that's what they're going for. Most are at or decently above MSRP. Hoping people here have their ear to the ground a little better than I have yet.
So my questions are:
- Are dealers coming off of MSRP at all? I'm about to start pricing it out locally but figured I'd ask the experts first.
- What is fuel mileage like with 35's and 3.55's? Currently have 35's and 4.10's on my DRW and get about 10-12 AT BEST with elderly driving habits. Not terribly impressed because it's also a laggy pig.
- Would the 10 speed be good for my driving habits? Would be a F350 long bed with 35's, can't decide between SRW and DRW.
- What are current lead times looking like? On here I've seen some having 8-9 month lead times but some as low as 4 months. Granted the longer lead times are higher trim pickups and I will probably only be interested in a Lariat at most, if that.
- Is the new radio/tech buggy and/or glitchy? I could write a novel about the radio/tech/ECM issues I've had.
- Can the XLT be optioned with the proximity entry option, with the button on the door handle? Is this what the "Autolock/Auto Unlock" is on the XLT Value and Premium Packages? I hate having to access my keys to only unlock the truck, when the button is an availability. This would make me jump to Lariat if not, call me spoiled.
Appreciate any help, don't be too hard on me for owning a Cummins. I still love watching the builds on here, I followed Black AOD's, Jomax's, and bigrpower's builds for a long time while I was dreaming.
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touche, that's a fair point lol. At this point I'm on the list to build a 23 but if a 22 comes up in my area with my must-have's then I'll probably jump on it. 
