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Location: N Texas | 2500 diesel. You can get by with a 2500 gas, but your mileage will suck and it doesn't tow nearly as well. I used my dad's 2500 gas truck to haul a 3-horse bumper pull with maybe 500 lbs of cargo, about three hours away, and I won't do that again! It's ridiculous how often it down-shifted, and how poor the gas mileage was. My diesel truck tows so much better. |
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Duct Tape Bikini Girl
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| You're getting some good advice on here. I'd like to add one more thing. Don't cheat yourself with a short bed. Get a long bed. |
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 Three in a Bikini
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| We have a 4 horse LQ with an 8ft short wall.
Our F250 diesel does a good job pulling. If we were going constantly I would probably upgrade to a F350 dually. |
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Location: Iowa | You'll find many answers. I have a HD 3/4 chevy pulling a 3 horse 10ftsw. Pull fine for me. I know you have to go by your vehicle tow rating. The whole key is can I get stopped safely with the weigh I'm towing. |
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Elite Veteran
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| ErinScruggs - 2016-03-28 4:06 PM
I wouldn't rely on anything smaller then a 3/4 ton pick-up simply for the reason anything smaller will have trouble stopping in my opinion :)
Yep, as someone told me once, 'it's not the pulling, it's the stopping you gotta worry about'.
I started out a long time ago with a 1 ton single rear wheel diesel. Then I moved to a dually and it made a huge difference in the stability, so that if you have to swerve to get out of someone's way, it holds those bigger trailers. |
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 Dog Resuce Agent
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Location: southeast Texas | $180 for a diesel oil change? WoW!
Just last week, diesel oil change plus oil filter $85. And I fussed it went up ten dollars. |
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Dog Resuce Agent
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Location: southeast Texas | Do your homework on the older ford trucks. Mid 2003 they changed the reliable 7.3. From then on till the 6.7 came out a few years ago, nothing but problems in most of them. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | roxieannie - 2016-03-30 10:28 AM
$180 for a diesel oil change? WoW!
Just last week, diesel oil change plus oil filter $85. And I fussed it went up ten dollars.
It's not that hard to do yourself. No way would I pay $180. |
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Cute Little Imp
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Location: N Texas | roxieannie - 2016-03-30 10:28 AM
$180 for a diesel oil change? WoW!
Just last week, diesel oil change plus oil filter $85. And I fussed it went up ten dollars.
That's insane! I pay $70. |
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Married to a Louie Lover
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| Three 4 Luck - 2016-03-30 11:39 AM
roxieannie - 2016-03-30 10:28 AM
$180 for a diesel oil change? WoW!
Just last week, diesel oil change plus oil filter $85. And I fussed it went up ten dollars.
It's not that hard to do yourself. No way would I pay $180.
Not surprising, I had a friend who manages a shop in Des Moines quote me an oil change with an oil filter and fuel filter - over $200 even with the discount he gives me.
We do our own for $85 for oil/oil filter/fuel filter. |
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| Thank you so much everyone! Weighing all the pros and cons and what works best for what I need I decided on the 2016 F350 XLT! They matched the price of 2016 F250 so I decided better to go bigger. I love diesels but I decided to go with gas. It fits my budget a little better right now. Thank you everyone again. :) |
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Member
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| I have a 2012 3/4 dodge diesel.. My trailer is a platinum 3 horse with a 10ft shortwall. I ended up putting air bags on it so that the trailer would not weigh the truck down. We are fixing to trade that in and get a 1ton. I have had no issues with hauling. The only reason why we are getting a new truck is my husband has new truck fever! To look at the prices it gave me a panic attack!
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 Duct Tape Can't Fix Stupid
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Location: Warsaw,NY | Polly05 - 2016-03-30 10:43 PM I have a 2012 3/4 dodge diesel.. My trailer is a platinum 3 horse with a 10ft shortwall. I ended up putting air bags on it so that the trailer would not weigh the truck down. We are fixing to trade that in and get a 1ton. I have had no issues with hauling. The only reason why we are getting a new truck is my husband has new truck fever! To look at the prices it gave me a panic attack!
My chevy diesel is an 07, i looked at new and shat myself at the prices!!! LOL waiting 3yrs til my jeep is paid off. |
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Member
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| exactly! I don't think I will be able to hold my husband off to long. I can remember when my dad in 88 bought a 4 door ford dually- and it was $17,000.00 |
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