F150 trucks from Canada

[Willis494]

I have been looking at used 2018-2021 used trucks and noticed a few trucks at dealerships have trucks that have a Canadian window and cab sticker.When you look at the car fax reports they show they were in Canada for a few years and then went through importation and are now for sale in the states.One particular dealer Huntley Ford in Illinois has around 6 of them.What could be any issues if a person purchased one of these trucks?Are emission’s different or anything that would have to be considered before possibly purchasing one.That particular dealer is 4 hours away and don’t want to waste a trip.I am seeing used prices drop and was looking at Granger to purchase a loaded lariat with the 3% under invioce but might get a used and them get a new one when all the deleted options are available.I also have a $2000 PCO for a new order to Use by April 3rd.Thanks in advance for any info.

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[zacko11288]

I think I'm uniquely qualified to answer this. Bought my '21 used Canadian truck from Huntley Ford a year ago (live 1 town over).

1. Truck was a little dirty from living on dirt roads, needed to power wash it really good and clean the rubber
2. Needed to reprogram the speedometer to default to US MPH with the help of the great people on this forum
3. Dynamic headlights come enabled by default if you have the led projector beam headlights!

Thats it! You'll notice small details like it's missing the American Flag badges and it's always trying to navigate to Tim Horton's though

 

[Nomis]

Thing you need to keep in mind is they salt the crap out of the roads in the winter up here so check the undercarriage if rust concerns you.

 

[parkerdog]

thought Wisconsin was part of Canada? It's not?

 

[Ecoblue]

The currency discrepancy has made trucks in Canada comparitely much cheaper. Add the new car depreciation and Canadian dealers have been making hand over fist in the last ten years. There are few if any noticeable differences. I wouldn’t worry about. On the other hand if there’s a lobo badge on the fender, run

 

[Mosey]

When I was looking for a used F150 last summer, I could tell the Canadian trucks with one look underneath. Corrosion is much more pronounced.

 

[Lon]

When I was looking for a used F150 last summer, I could tell the Canadian trucks with one look underneath. Corrosion is much more pronounced.

Eastern Canada uses salt every where; Alberta uses sand and gravel.

 

[SumGuy]

Usually the nearly rusted away frame is a good indicator.

Check carefully. I don’t know why they love salt so much up there, but they do.

 

[Big Cam]

I bought a 2013 FX4 in the year 2016 and it was an import from Canada. I got an insane deal on it since it was recorded as having 48,000 miles on it but really those were kilometers and once it was brought over the guages were switched and it actually only had 30,000 miles but the dealer who got it got a price reflecting 48,000 miles. He more or less passed those davubgs on, it was a good 4k under blue book at the time.

I never had a single issue except for rust started to form behind the rear doors as it did with pretty much every Ford truck from 2009-2014.

I would buy a truck from Canada again.

 

[tony72cutlass's']

Most used trucks my dealer sells to the US, meaning there is hardly any water left for local fish.

my only option was putting in a factory order and getting exactly what I wanted. Took 7 months though!

 

[personalt]

I saw this same thing as well when I was looking. I ended up getting new one from Granger. Ordered in December and they are building it on Tuesday so not too bad of a wait. I don't seem to have any deletes on XLT - seems like they are doing a bit better with supply chain. Though I cant really saw for sure until makes it to the dealer

As others said - check the frame/unercarriage. But that is something you should do for all trucks not from Arizona anyway

 

[B-real]

The currency discrepancy has made trucks in Canada comparitely much cheaper. Add the new car depreciation and Canadian dealers have been making hand over fist in the last ten years. There are few if any noticeable differences. I wouldn’t worry about.

Been this way for years. I have personally owned 2 Canadian F150s, and have multiple co-workers in the same boat. I know of at least 4 used dealerships in SLC the run their entire business off of purchasing used Canadian trucks and then reselling them here. And Ford has never denied any warranty here. The only group that cant figure it out is CarMax. They supposedly have some policy not to purchase Canadian vehicles in the US, or at least thats the BS they gave me when they low balled me on buying one from me. I have traded them in to other dealerships at full NADA value.

And we use just as much salt in the winter here as a lot of Canada, so thats a non-issue for me.

 

[dolsen]

I saw it stated several times one here but I’m going to reiterate:

back last august when I got into my 22 F150, I came across several Canadian imports. There were 3 in particular I looked at, the highest miles being 35000 and the oldest being a 2019. They all had a decent amount of rust on the frame and suspension, far more than anything I’ve seen before at that age/mileage. Not enough to be immediately dangerous, but probably wouldn’t have lasted as long as expected. Be VERY picky about any Canadian trucks.

 

[DrTone]

I haven't heard of any Canadian F-150 fatalities from corrosion. I can understand extra corrosion is an issue with the amount of winter we have up here but I wouldn't consider it immediately dangerous.

 

[OneFiddy]

I saw it stated several times one here but I’m going to reiterate:

back last august when I got into my 22 F150, I came across several Canadian imports. There were 3 in particular I looked at, the highest miles being 35000 and the oldest being a 2019. They all had a decent amount of rust on the frame and suspension, far more than anything I’ve seen before at that age/mileage. Not enough to be immediately dangerous, but probably wouldn’t have lasted as long as expected. Be VERY picky about any Canadian trucks.

US rust belt trucks vs Canadian will have no difference. Once you starting going south then yeah it will have more surface rust than comparable trucks never seeing winter or salt.

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