2007 Ford F250 Super Crew FX4

[Mike69]

A friend of my dad has a 2007 Ford F250 Super Crew FX4 Diesel with 122500 miles. The truck is super clean. He works in the oil industry & travels a lot. He wants to purchase a New truck really soon & said he would sell it to someone he knows for $15000.00. Is this a good price??? I own a 2001 Ford F150 Super Crew Lariat 4X4 Gas & thought about selling it & buying his truck. I don't know anything about Diesel trucks so any help would be Great!

Thanks!!!

[jdgregory84]

6.0 out of warranty? You should probably pass. If there's an extended warranty on the engine, it might be worth it. However, if not, I would pass.

[Mike69]

Thanks!!!

[lowthreeohz]

Yeah, the coolant and oil seems to have problems mixing on those engines. we did it to our shop truck a while back, stranded James in New Jersey for quite some time.

[Mike69]

Good to know, Thanks Again!

[Torinoman]

I think there are mods guys do to those engines to make them more reliable, not 7.3 or Cummins reliable, but better. Namely a EGR cooler delete and head studs. The cooler delete is cheap and kinda easy, head studs on the other hand cost a way too much, like 3600 installed.

Also consider that most of the horror stories are about the earlier engines.

It might be a good truck and 15000 for a 2007 sounds bad ass to me but you might wanna take it to a shop that specializes in diesel performance or powerstrokes and they might be able to tell you if its on the verge of self destruction or doing fine.

[dblack1]

I always said you couldn't give me one out of warranty, but that is a cheap price.


Injectors and head gaskets are mighty expensive though, so I would go into it knowing you need to put some money away for those repairs. It is also at a age where ball joints, brakes, and hub assemblies will all need replacing. The parts to do all this will be a little over a grand, and take a full day of work if your handy.


The EGR/cooler delete and head studs will go a long way. If not worked too hard I don't see it being a problem with head gaskets. I sold a 04 with 160k miles last year that hadn't blown the headgaskets, but it had a EGR cooler replaced and most all the injectors. The 05 I sold last month had two sets of head gaskets and one head, 15 injectors, and egr/cooler in only 140k miles. Depends who is driving them.

I'd buy that truck and when it shits the bed I'd put a 24 valve in it.