NH_Bulldog

From what I understand you can get Connected Built-in Navigation which comes with 3 years of service. Connected services include live traffic, weather, gas and restaurants, etc. If after 3 years you don’t subscribe, it will revert to the built-in (imbedded) GPS with no connected services. The other version is a Connected Navigation 90 day trial. After 90 days if you don’t subscribe, you get a nice map with no GPS function. My last truck - 2015 F150 - had Sync2 and factory navigation with an SD card for maps, and I liked it enough that I put my Garmin in a drawer. My current truck - 2022 F250 - with Sync3 also has factory nav and I am not really liking it as much as I did my previous system. However, I do like that I get all the connected services in the navigation unit through the Sirius/XM subscription I already have.

Mine hit Ramp RA8F in East Brookfield, MA on March 30, was unloaded March 31 and picked up and delivered to my dealer in NH on April 4. There are a lot of factors involved since these ramps serve all manufacturers, not just Ford. Driver availability is the big bottleneck right now.

We were doing better on our return trip from camping…..until I got on it to see what it would do on a series of long uphill pulls in the right lane passing cars that were in the fast lane but driving slow. Overall very happy with the power, handling and responsiveness even when towing the camper. Once I get over having so much fun with the new truck, I think I can see 9+ mpg towing which is where my 3.5L EcoBoost was.

it is .4% off the dealer invoice plus the administration fee. .4% is .004 times the invoice. Subtract that figure from the invoice, then add the admin fee and you have the X-plan cost for that vehicle. As a real-word example, my invoice was $58,228. Multiply that times .004 and you get $232.91. Subtract that from the invoice cost and you get $57,995.09. Add the admin fee of $275 and you get the X-plan cost of $58,270.09 which is a discount off the sticker of $3,284.91. An even easier way to figure it out is to go to the X-plan site, and then navigate to vehicle search or build your own, and the website will show the X-plan cost for that vehicle as the price. Once there is a window sticker generated, the vehicle should appear in the dealer inventory search online and you can see what the X-plan cost is. An even easier easy way is to just ask your dealer what the X-plan cost is. Mine was greedy and elected not to participate in the X-plan (their choice), but at least I knew the cost.

A little diesel fuel gets a campfire going nicely, and without the WHOOMP of gasoline. YMMV

In NH we have no sales tax but registration for our 22 F250 was $956 for this year, but did include title and vanity plate fees and at the full 18 mills. Actual registration is closer to $55/year and the mill rate drops to 15 in year two, then 12, 9, 6, and then to 3 for as long as you own it. It’s almost all deductible, so I get it back.

Today we towed our camper from NH to Central NY. Up and over the mountains in Southern VT (hit some snow) and then West on I-90. We had a real strong headwind right out of the west of 25+ mph. Got to our destination and our milage was 7.4 mpg on 87 octane. On the way home this weekend I am going to fill up with 91 octane and see if a tail wind or no wind makes any difference.

On a related note, I know people with turbos that like to dump the resonator so they get more turbo whistle from the exhaust. To each their own I guess.

Go here then: https://www.ford.com/ford-insure/

I installed a Cat-back Gibson on a previous truck with the resonator delete. I would not do it again (Remove the resonator). When we towed our camper, it would hit a certain RPM range and the harmonic vibrations would rattle your brain, literally. It was very unpleasant unless we were doing a steady speed on the highway. A resonator changes the “sound” of the exhaust before it enters the muffler, which allows the muffler to do it’s job better. If you decide to do it, use caution, because the resonator is there for a reason.

I would double check the hub selectors, don’t assume they are in Auto position. At the risk of stating the obvious, your front hubs can be rotated into Auto or Lock position. Lock will keep everything engaged all the time and kill your mileage. Auto means it is disengaged until you turn the 4x4 dial on your dash.

I have a 2022 F250 with the 7.3L and 3.55’s. We get 14 mpg running around, idling in line at school twice a day to drop off and pick up our daughter, etc. For Easter we did a roadtrip to visit family. It was 150 miles each way, mix of highway and secondary roads and we got 16 mpg and we do not baby it. Are your hubs in Lock or Auto?

Ford Insure is available in the FordPass app. Go to Vehicle, then Safety & Security and you will see an icon for Ford Insure. It is a usage based policy that monitors through vehicle telematics things like miles driven, hard acceleration, hard braking, idling, seatbelt use and driving between midnight and 5 am. There is always at least a 10% discount and good driving habits may get you more. As a disclaimer, I work for the company that Underwrites the Ford Insure policy, but I am not an agent, nor am I in sales or underwriting.

When we were shopping and finding that new trucks were so scarce, my wife asked about just getting a used one (turned out to be just as scarce), but when she saw prices that were within $1,000 - 2,000 of new, she sent me back to work to find a new one. Happy wife, happy life.

That was REALLY hard to follow……

I took my Carmax cash offer received through Edmunds to my dealer. The Carmax offer was more than what I paid for the truck 3 years and 35,000 miles ago. The dealer wanted my truck bad enough that they gave me $1,500 more than the Carmax offer. They put it on their lot for $8,000 more than what they gave me, and it was sold in a week. It’s like they paid me to drive my truck the last 3 years…..crazy situation.

X-Plan is the only one that can be stacked with a PCO. But of all the dealers I contacted with 200 miles of me, not a single one would work with X-plan "due to high product demand" (which really means; we want to get as much money out of you as we can legally get away with). I also tried my $500 First Responder discount, but Ford said no to that. In the end, I was happy to get the exact truck I wanted, for a decent price (they gave me crazy money on my trade), and it all happened in only 3 weeks from the day I found it and put a deposit on it to the day it was delivered. I really can't complain

When I was shopping, X-Plan was $3,182 less than sticker on my build. Dealer would not give me X-Plan and said I had to pay sticker.....until I pulled out my PCO for $3,000. so I got it back close to X-plan in the end.

Then I would have suggested the blue pill so that you could continue on in our belief that the Matrix is real

Dang, now I am really curious.....

I didn't even see the front end dip when you lifted the plow at the end! I have the Snow Plow Prep as well, but just got the truck 2 weeks ago so no snow here to move

The inverter should be the same whether you have one outlet or two (I have a 400w portable inverter to power my mobile office in my company car , and it has two 110v outlets). I don’t necessarily want to be involved with someone voiding a warranty or blowing up their new truck so I will keep this very high-level; look at the wires coming out of the inverter under the back seat. Pull the plug out of the dash and look at those wires. Determine what wires you want to tap into. Tap into the appropriate wires using an appropriate tap (don’t cheap-out here). Terminate at an appropriate outlet (again, don’t go cheap). A less costly alternative: pick up a $30 400w inverter with a 12v lighter plug on the end, plug it in and stuff it under the front seat and achieve the same result.

I am in New England. I run 87 in my 7.3L for average driving and get between 15-16 mpg in mixed use but bump up to 93 for towing just like I did with my F150 3.5L Ecoboost. The manual says 87 is good, but for best results they suggest that you use at least 91. We have not towed yet (first trip is scheduled for next week). I might try a tank of 91 and see how it does. The only real issue I see is that every station I have been to lately stops the pump at $75 which could be as little as half a tank of gas.

See? Once you took that Sync 4 out they got right on your build! Anyway, congratulations!

It was a tongue in cheek response...you can't get Sync 4 in anything less than a Lariat. As for the size of a city or dealership, it might very well be irrelevant. My time between order and delivery was a few days over 12 weeks (which I consider typical/average under "normal" circumstances. The dealership I chose is in a town of a few thousand people within a 45 mile radius of 14 other dealerships including several in the largest cities in my state, and several more not too much further away from Boston, MA. The big guys couldn't get me a truck, or get anywhere near the price I was looking for but the smaller dealer gave me a great deal, honored my PCO and gave me crazy money for my F150 trade (which they sold 9 days later).