2000 Ford F250 Arizona from North America - Comments

I have owned two GM vehicles before owning my F250 diesel. My last truck was a Chevy 1500 4x4. It was great until I hit about 150k miles then I started having all sorts of maintenance issues. I currently have 50k on my diesel and it runs Great. (knock on wood) I have never had an issue with it yet. I added a 65hp power chip and get 16 -23 mpg and usually obtain 18mph in combination of city and highway driving. with diesel at $1.59 verses $1.79 in TX, I'll take the power and fuel efficiency over my gas engine any day. No more gas engines for me.

I just can't wait until GM puts a diesel in the Hummer again.

I recently upgraded my service truck from a little Ranger to an F250 Diesel 4x2. I average 200 miles a day in my truck. The beauty is that my 7.3L diesel gets comparable fuel economy to the 2.3L gas I had in the Ranger, and has 10 times the power and 3 times the storage space. I've had my new truck for less than a month, but already have 3000 miles on it. She works hard, but she's been good for it so far. I've always owned Fords, and love them. Nothing bad to say about Chevy and Dodge. Both good trucks, I've driven both on previous jobs. All Japanese makes are reliable, but often lack the sturdiness for heavy work that domestic trucks have. Toyota and Nissan are fine play trucks, but I wouldn't put anything heavier than a Hunting Quad in the back of their Tundra/Titan.

Unfortunatly, with diesel prices being almost 30 cents more than regular gas, I don't think the diesel market is going to last much longer. It truly is sad to see a future so grim for what was a top seller and such a durable truck. Hmmmm, I really am gonna miss the power and reliability when I have to give up my powerstroke for a Toyota Prius because of gas prices.

Don't give up on diesel. Biodiesel will run in any diesel engine without modifications, and can be found at many diesel stations in most larger cities. Also, a commercially available onboard heating system will allow you to run straight Vegetable oil in your diesel engine. See www.frybrid.com or www.vegistroke.com or www.greasecar.com or www.plantdrive.com for available conversion kits. Most people can obtain used vegetable oil for free from restaurants who would otherwise have to pay for its disposal.

"The diesel engine can be fed with vegetable oils and would help considerably in the development of agriculture of the countries which use it. The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become in course of time as important as petroleum and the coal tar products of the present time." -Rudolf Diesel 1911 at the Paris World's Fair where his Engine was debuted to the public running on peanut oil.

I am the owner of a 2000 F-250 Powerstroke. 12,000 miles without a drop of petroleum products. Biodiesel, Veggie oil, and Synthetic AMSOIL lubricants are all I put in my truck.

I have owned just about every truck you can imagine. I have owned a Ford 250, Dodge 1500, Chevy 2500, Toyota Tundra, and a Nissan Titan. We all see the commercials of the Nissan Titan and the most reliable truck the Tundra, but can we really believe that? First to say my Tundra has caused some of the biggest problems, along with my Dodge 1500. The Titan to me was not a truck and the price was crazy. My Chevy has been pretty good with many minor problems; but the BEST TRUCK has defiantly been my Ford F-250. I have just around 290,000 miles on it and have had no problems, besides normal wears. It is roomy, it can haul anything I put on it, and gets alright gas mileage.

Your theory of internal combustion is seriously flawed.

I address this e-mail to all the big rich automakers who obviously will not agree with this, but I will be heard before I mysteriously disappeared like so many others have in the past. If I was to tell you how you could truly improve your overall design in relation to that internal combustion engine, you would just laugh at me like you did in the mid-nineteen eighties when I approach all the auto companies with a similar technical challenge. I'm much older now and wiser too, for I just might be laughing at all of that useless billion-dollar research that you hold so dear to your corporate hearts. The overall fuel air mixture ratio for those internal combustion engines has always been quite poor; therefore my question combination answer to you would be one of simple logic. "Why is an engine's fuel consumption so high?" The year is 2007, and your college educated engineers working with unlimited financial resources for countless decades now, have not redesigned the internal combustion engine too meet that fuel air mixture ratio. And the most shocking aspect has been one of puzzlement for me. With all that money spent or should I say wasted on research, nothing has really changed.

I still find it hard to believe that after all this time; these overpaid engineers remain blind to this one important factor, “that if any engine could be altered without changing the mechanical devices overall size and shape, the battle for superior fuel economy might just be accomplished.” “What are we up to now; “thirty miles to the gallon when driving in the city?” “ And forty miles per gallon, highway?” “Why not seventy five miles to a gallon city, and one hundred miles to a gallon highway” and if we use your imaginations which many of your engineers obviously no longer process, we may increase it by a factor of ten or more.

If you truly want to sell those gas guzzling SUVs and RVs once again, then you must meet the fuel economy quotation halfway. Use your own imagination as I run a small fuel versus price scenario here. If you want to bring back that loyal large Truck or RV buying public, then you're going to have to meet the fuel air ratio combination halfway. That's all I can say about it for now, since my once beloved country now exercises unconstitutional restraints on scientific thoughts, as well as any prudent ideas that may come from those erratic thoughts.

Now ask yourself as question? How many more large vehicles could you sell, if a SUVs or a RVs engine could be altered making it capable of getting over a hundred miles to a gallon? The answer is quite obvious; you would probably out sell those Japanese owned and operated car companies to the point of bankruptcy. Think! with that new and improved fantastic fuel economy, you would definitely sell a hell of a lot more of those oversize trucks "right?" Let's not stop there, for you should set your sights even higher. Therefore that same truck that only gets twenty two miles per gallon would remain on the sells lot. On the other hand the modified vehicles would not only sell out quickly, but there would definitely be a very long waiting list, as the publics demand for the new and improve gas engines began to take notice.

I'm just a poor tinkering amateur mechanic and a former electronic technician who obviously understands why the big three are hurting at this present time. Your highly paid engineers have once again let you down by not using their God-given imaginations, to its fullest potential. I on the other hand have only my scientifically based imagination, which sees the world in three dimensions. Contact me at my e-mail address below, if you’re a struggling company who is truly serious about changing its luck. I can be employed a hell of a lot cheaper than a criminally overpaid CEO, who just ran his billion-dollar company right into the ground.

Sincerely yours Greenfield_Raymond@yahoo.com.

Ladies and Gentlemen... This is the man that will sell you the 300 mpg carburetor, the magnets for your gas tank, and other such snake oil devices.

What does any of that long rambling rant have to do with the "Big 3"? Over the last several decades ALL auto manufactures have put performance from smaller displacement engines as their top priority. You've got 4 cylinder motors cranking out as much as early V8's. They can build cars that get incredible fuel economy, its just that they will not have the power and safety that people have come to want.

So please, while it is fun to read all opinions here, maybe the unibomber style manifestos can be saved for your own conspiracy web site.

For all you Ford BOYS out there I say that the one thing you do not know is that your name sake old Henry himself admitted in a court of law in the early 1900's that the Dodge brothers, that's right DODGE brothers made the entire ford car except the body, wheels, and tires. Ford also stated that the Dodge brothers risked everything they owned to make the Ford car, he risked very little, he invested no money or property in the venture in 1903. So let me say about my experience with Ford. I had one and it did not even make it to the 100,000 mile mark before it had all kinds of electrical problems, then the catalytic converter went out. But yet another down fall with Ford is that you pretty much have to know your date of manufacture to get the right replacement part. You probably have to know what color it is and if it has white wall tires. Sorry, if Ford would get it right the first time you would not need to know all that. My supervisor had three lemon Fords in a row, a windstar, a ranger, and an f-150. Now to put the icing on the cake. His in-laws owned the local Ford dealership and after 40+ years of ownership they all drive GM's. It just show that when it is given to you,you drive Fords, but when you buy you buy something else. For everyone out there with over 100'000 miles consider yourself lucky. for others claiming 100'000 to 300'000 (ha-ha),how many engines and transmissions have you had.

I have a 2000 F250 4x4 that's a beast. It has 320,000 miles and hasn't had any problems. It still runs great and the people who make Dodge is Daimler-Chrysler. Ford also used to manufacture Jeeps in WW2 after the small company Phantom couldn't produce them in mass quantities.

Its all in how the vehicle is maintained is what determines how long it lasts. I have owned Jeeps, Fords, Chevys, and Dodges and to tell you the truth they have all been great vehicles to me, but they all had one thing in common, they all needed worked on. I haven't owned a car that never broke down on me. My personnal choice would be to own a Ford or a Jeep. But that is just my personnel choice.

To the comment about Dodges "plastic frame". I don't agree with that. I owned a 1996 Dodge 1500 and I have had 3600 pounds in the bed of it. It was only a half ton pick up and it took it.

But I now have a 2000 Ford F250 with a 7.3L diesel in it and I have got to tell you that it is a pretty good truck.