I bought my brand NEW 2008 F-250 6.4 PSD 6 months ago, MIDWAY FORD in MIAMI, FLORIDA gives me a coupon for my first oil-change at $9.99, so I said thank you, and when I show for my oil-change FORD wants to charge me $180 for the oil change !!! I show them the coupon they gave me, with my name, type of truck & the vin number of the truck receiving the oil-change !!! FORD said no-go cause I have a diesel, I told the idiots, they sold me the truck & knew it was a diesel, FORD said It was a mistake on their part, but if I want an oil change it's $180, OK kiss my a$$ & to shove the MUSTANGE SHELBY they are trying to sell to my wife, UP THEIR @#@%#@ I should have bought a DODGE ????

 

No, you should've bought an older Ford and sent it to Bean's Diesel and had a CR Cummins put in it. I just wish you could buy pickup truck glider kits like they do with big rigs.

 

what's a glider kit?

 

glider kit is a new truck with no powertrain ,just frame and cab,alot of companies are going with these and rebuilding scrap yard engine to get away with meeting the new emmisions laws because the emmision standards go with the engine year not the truck year plus the older diesel truck engines give about 2x the fuel mileage as the new ones,old cat 7 mpg, new twin turbo cat 3.5-4 mpg, not hard to figure out in my books which engine I want to run

 

Sweet ... 4MPG in the new trucks?!
Damn that's brutal!! I bet it won't be long until we start seeing more aerocab Volvos running singles. My uncle's '08 397 Peterbilt seems to still be getting 7mpg, 525 Cat he's running in it. But at 4MPG, how do they expect these guys to make a living?

Let's do some quick math:
7MPG, 10,000miles/month @ $2.00/gallon currently assumed = $2857/month fuel costs.

4MPG, 10,000miles/month @ $2.00/gallon = $5000/month fuel costs.

That's an increase of $25,716/year/truck....

Once fuel goes back up to $4.00/gallon when the recession is over, we might get Recession Round 2 when fuel costs double again. My uncle had to increase his costs to his clients an incredible amount when fuel spiked. In Fall 2007, it was already increasing steadily from $3.20/gallon, and at its peak last July we were seeing over $5.20/gallon. I stopped looking just because I was so frustrated. That means that pretty much everything we buy the cost will go way up, most notably our food. That stuff is all trucked. High oil good for the economy? I work in the oil industry, all high oil prices mean is that I stay employed. If profits go up 200%, my paycheque doesn't...but my grocery bill goes well beyond $300/mo. Anyways, sorry to hijack the thread here.

Yeah, I won't trade my '03 Duramax that's for sure! If I buy another diesel, it's going to be used.

 

Yeah, so now you know what a glider is. I would LOVE to have a brand new Ford F-450 or F-550 with a CR Cummins and 8LL tranny. I'd probably never buy another truck again.

 

back on topic.

Very rarely do I see any oil change deals include Diesels.

 

good thing they didn't give ya the 9.99 special, would have slapped a filter on it and gave er 5 quarts of oil and sent you on your way.... to a meltdown !

 

Even without a deal, $180? Shouldn't it be like $80 tops?

 

mabe $100.00, depending on type of oil and filters.