Cool to see that F550 with the regular bed along with extension otherwise It'll have that big open space there since these F450s and F550s are always a cab & chassis setup
Yeah the term gets thrown around too loosely I've seen so many people pull out head bolts one at a time in thread in Chinese head studs and call it bulletproofed That's why when I was looking for a truck every ad I seen that term I clicked back out of it. Ended up buying one with a blown motor and just building it myself
I don’t think he showed the vin but this might be mine now. I’ve had mine for 2 year now exact same every same damages on the dually flare. There’s a lot of things that this truck has that mine doesn’t in the entire but the guy i bought it from did a lot of conversions on the interior where it could explain why things are missing. My truck is pushing 400k miles never had an issue.
Buy them, fix the issues and put out what you paid, what was wrong, how much it was, transport fees and your small mark up for your trouble. Negotiate from an honest point. ( Now....do the best out there understand the profit margins are too low when you dont lie ??? Yes everybody knows that. ) Can you make it work?? Idk 🤷♂️ we'll find out i guess.
We want to see what u paid for it because we know if it was semi junk or had known issues u would have negotiated very low for it. The more we see u have paid for it! The more we know u checked everything and are confident that it's worth that money What alot of dealers do is buy rubbish cars for really cheap and then because they have connections they get things repaired really cheap and then sell the car as if it came in without issues. We don't want those cars. We want to pay a fair price for a fair car that you obtained for a fair price too. We don't want to pay a fair price for a cheap car that u repaired for cheap using contacts that know they need to fix it cheap. So will u be showing the actual cost of what u buy it for or will u be showing the cost after u buy it really cheap and then add repair costs to it.
I like the idea and with the right marketing it could be a competitive advantage. Just include a section somwhere that explains why cars cost more than what you paid to avoid badtalking from people who dont understand how business works.
A LOT of people don't understand how business works. If this dealer included ALL of his overhead, it would be a list longer than all the info for the vehicle. Margins for HONEST used dealerships are pretty small. The predatory ones that finance in-house (with shitty terms) are the ones making bank.
Putting in all those upgraded parts won't keep the 6.0 PSD form dying. All it takes is for the needle bearing from the roller lifters to came apart and your 6.0 is a giant paper weight. That is what happen to my 6.0, for all the upgrade parts didn't save it from that and there's no fix for those roller lifters.
Looks like it's not the original cluster original cluster was a 6 gauge cluster with Tachometer that this truck originally had how did the base cluster without a Tachometer was put in this XLT SuperCrew Truck
kinda new to the diesel community, thinking about getting a diesel soon and would like to know if making it "bullet proof" would make the truck last longer? also thinking about straight piping and deleting the exhaust to "roll coal" but also use it to learn more about the truck
I always thought "Bulletproof" meant you've done the work to the vehicles engine/drivetrains weakest points and thus made it as reliable as it could ever be. From upgrading internals to fuel and oil filtration and cooling. Bulletproof just holds water in that way to me. I have a 6.4 L Powerstroke "bulletproofed" the whole top end with some short block (bored 20 thousandths mahle race pistons with quarter inch larger fuel bowls arp studs fass titanium fuel filtration s&b cold intake deleted EGR new cam bearings rod bearings mains seals and the gaskets) but not the DPF and I ended up roasting my crank shaft and burned out my line hone. When we took the engine apart. The top end was virtually new even after 24k of abuse in the 7 months I had the build with stock emissions and regeneration still happening. Learned a valuable and hard and expensive lesson. Redid everything with a 4" straight pipe and upgraded EGR delete (also took the time to rebuild my turbos with billet cartridges from spool logic) same top end and I can confidently say Bulletproofing is POSSIBLE of any vehicle. But you just don't know what you don't know.
My second favorite bodystyle. My favorite is a bullnose 1986. If you could put a Bullnose body on that frame, it would be perfect for me... but a dealbreaker is it has to have the original gauge cluster, idk why but I love the old square gauges.
