New Tow Vehicle on Order

The lovely Mrs. Quest has decided that she wants a 5th wheel RV / Trailer.  As such, my 2018 4Runner must be replaced with a diesel-drinking, torque-spewing monster.  We looked around locally, but there are NO trucks on dealership lots anywhere around here, so I had to place a "factory order".  The projected delivery date is 3-4 months.  Dang.  This is what I have ordered:

 I know my custom bodied F150 pulled my Super Sport your SN has to be lighter

Did you go single rear wheel or duel rear wheel? XLT, Lariat, King Ranch, Platinum,Tremor package, Fx4, Ford has so many option packages it is crazy.

I know, I was looking to pick up a F350 6.7 SRW 6.5 ft bed Lariat Tremor before the truck shortage and price gouging. I also do not have a wife as encouraging as you. The long bed comes with the large tank so you may not need an extra tank such as a Transfer Flow unit made in Chico California. When I was looking the Transfer Flow unit would pay for it's self, I think it was around 100,000 miles by just not purchasing fuel in California with our $0.50 cent a gallon tax. I travel out of state often enough I would rarely need to buy fuel in California, makes it worth it. Just something to think about.

Gary S wrote:  I know my custom bodied F150 pulled my Super Sport your SN has to be lighter

Smithfamily wrote: That package come with 30 year financing?

JQ, congrats!  That truck is so long parallel parking becomes something you used to think about doing.

You're going to love it!  

That is a pretty rig, can’t imagine how long it takes to load all that.

Thanks Rob.  It does clean up nice for vacation!

Round here, we see a lot of duallys for heavy live stock, expensive horses
Probably just adds a safety feature Incase of a blowout.

67 ski nat wrote: Round here, we see a lot of duallys for heavy live stock, expensive horses Probably just adds a safety feature Incase of a blowout.

This is what the "build" looks like...courtesy of the Ford website.

my buddy bought one, platinum option, his wife has a very nice BMW, every time she goes to see the kids, a 240 mile trip she looks for reasons to take his truck now.  She loves it on the road, they go from Las Vegas to Newport Beach to visit kids and the truck rolls along any speed she wants and gets nearly 20 MPG not towing.

No doubt the newer diesels are the class in towing, my first diesel was a 1984 Suburban 3/4 Ton 4x4 with the 6.2L.   Got good MPG at that time but it had no power to speak of, I think it was 140 HP and 260 ft pounds of torque.  We did see over 20 MPG on long trips and it was great when not towing but towing I remember going up hills on the highway in 1st gear at 25 MPH and could not go any faster.  I bought a turbo to install to fix that issue and danged if the truck was not wrecked, we were rear ended hard.  Never got to enjoy the turbo.