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  1. I have USAA and am getting a F450. It is supposed to be built the week of 8/16 and I already have a VIN assigned. If you get the quote online all you do is input the VIN. It never asks for a GVWR and it did not have any problem spitting out a quote for me. I am curious why you think you need the derate unless it has something to do with the state you live in. I am in TX.
  2. I have a Keystone Cougar 316 RLS, according to the brochure: Dry - 10,436 Gross - 12,300 Hitch - 1,900 Last time I went over a scale (this june on a 4000 mile trip) the hitch weight was 2,500 and there was very little in the basement. I will tell you that with my 2016 F250 there was absolutely nothing else in the bed and it was me, my wife, teenage daughter and a 40 lb dog in the cab. I had cleaned everything unnecessary out of the truck to try and save weight. I was under on the individual axle weights, but 800 pounds over my 10,000 GVWR. The 6.7 in the truck pulled that trailer like a dream even through the mountains in Yellowstone and Colorado, However, not once did we run into bad weather or have to panic stop. Though you will probably get plenty of people telling you that you will be fine, you might want to consider going to a 350. I would rather have excess capacity, would like to actually put some stuff in the bed of the truck, and live in an area of the country where DRW is not much of a hinderance - I have a 8/16 build week for a 450. Also means when my wife wants a bigger fiver I don't have to get another new truck.
  3. Order placed on 6/23 with a fairly high volume truck dealer in North Texas. I assume they have a fairly high allocation.
  4. According to the email that I got from Ford two days ago. My 450 is scheduled for the week of 8/16. F450 Lariat Ultimate, FX4, UTT, Quad Beam, block heater, upfitter, universal garage door, Atlas Blue. In case you were curious. No adaptive steering.
  5. Where is that information on the sticker?
  6. This is certainly true. I was mainly curious as to why people that have ordered trucks were so concerned that they could not see the sticker when they already know what is on the truck.
  7. I just stumbled on to this thread so I went and checked my 2019. The coolant is low but not terribly so and there is no white smoke at startup or any other time. I'm now wondering if I should buy a ford ESP from one of the dealers that offers it online before my 3/36 runs out.
  8. Somebody help me understand. If you have a copy of your "preview order" and you can see your options on the shop.ford tracker. Why is it so important for you to see an image of the window sticker?
  9. The way I read the description on the nav for a lariat is that it is free for the first 3 months and then you have to pay a subscription fee. I could be wrong. Either way it doesn't matter much to me as long as Car-Play works I can use google maps off my phone.
  10. I don't take my truck anywhere that I would really consider to be "off road" (dirt roads don't count for me). However, there were plenty of times that I would try to move my travel trailer on my property and had to put the truck into 4 wheel drive because the rear wheels would just spin in the slick grass.
  11. My current truck is Blue Jean Metallic and I teach physics and chemistry so I was really excited about the Antimatter Blue, until I saw it in person. Unless it is in full sun it just looks black to me and that was too dark. Then I switched to Lithium Gray - until I found out that they discontinued it for 2022. Ended up with Atlas Blue.
  12. The only reason that my wife agreed to move to a DRW was because of the 360 cameras so that she could see the fenders.
  13. But it is not all about cost. For me the ease of the towing / driving experience is worth the extra money and some would say headache of the diesel engine. That is why not only am I going with a 6.7 again I am also adding wheels on the back. Going from a 2016 F250 to a 2022 F450.
  14. When I ordered my truck the dealer said that if I wanted to trade it then that would have to be done when the new truck came in. He said that they could buy it outright when I ordered it but it would be two separate transactions and I would lose the sales tax savings that I get in my state.
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