Spiffy
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ok. I had a budget for my truck. Blown completely away. Misery loves company.
I’m spending way too much on this truck and still not done.
Its the accessories that are bankrupting me. Got a have them.
Spray bed liner, tri fold hard bed cover, custom wheels and tires, Bluetooth dash cam, molded floor mats, 2” level kit to fit tires, Bluetooth obd dongle and 8” tablet to monitor the hybrid battery and engine management, mongoose cable to manually install the ford software updates that don’t seem to come, reverse beep sound cutout dongle, window tint, mirror wrap,. I’m sure there will be more.
I got this truck a week ago and the only driving has been to different shops to perform the upgrades.
I had little idea how much this all added up. I tell myself each item is only just a bit more then next item is 100 and so forth. I have a spending problem on the truck. The way I justify it is madness.
my biggest problem is I’m a techno nerd. This 502a is a electronic junky’s crack. There is so many features locked away. I’ve spent hours and hours custom tuning the engine, body control systems and everything else I can find, I can’t help myself.
I am a expermental aircraft builder/designer. I built a two place high performance plane that is capable of auto landing. I thought my plane was advanced until this truck.
It going to be my very last high dollar truck.
I bought it with 4k miles so I payed thousands less than sticker. I almost ordered a new one but with the features I wanted it would have been over 80k and it would have had deletes that would have drove me nuts.
So far I’m under what a new one would have cost.
I envy some that are happy with the truck as is. I hope to have phots soon.
BTW. I want to give Discount Tires a shout out. I bought some mickie Thompson tires from them this week. I told them what to order. I did my research. All the reviews were 5 star. These tires are SO noisy. Sounds like wheel bearings going out and has a washboard feeling when coming to a stop. There not defective. I reached out to discount tire and they offered to swap them out for anything in the price range. Man that’s going to make a lifetime customer out of me.
I’m spending way too much on this truck and still not done.
Its the accessories that are bankrupting me. Got a have them.
Spray bed liner, tri fold hard bed cover, custom wheels and tires, Bluetooth dash cam, molded floor mats, 2” level kit to fit tires, Bluetooth obd dongle and 8” tablet to monitor the hybrid battery and engine management, mongoose cable to manually install the ford software updates that don’t seem to come, reverse beep sound cutout dongle, window tint, mirror wrap,. I’m sure there will be more.
I got this truck a week ago and the only driving has been to different shops to perform the upgrades.
I had little idea how much this all added up. I tell myself each item is only just a bit more then next item is 100 and so forth. I have a spending problem on the truck. The way I justify it is madness.
my biggest problem is I’m a techno nerd. This 502a is a electronic junky’s crack. There is so many features locked away. I’ve spent hours and hours custom tuning the engine, body control systems and everything else I can find, I can’t help myself.
I am a expermental aircraft builder/designer. I built a two place high performance plane that is capable of auto landing. I thought my plane was advanced until this truck.
It going to be my very last high dollar truck.
I bought it with 4k miles so I payed thousands less than sticker. I almost ordered a new one but with the features I wanted it would have been over 80k and it would have had deletes that would have drove me nuts.
So far I’m under what a new one would have cost.
I envy some that are happy with the truck as is. I hope to have phots soon.
BTW. I want to give Discount Tires a shout out. I bought some mickie Thompson tires from them this week. I told them what to order. I did my research. All the reviews were 5 star. These tires are SO noisy. Sounds like wheel bearings going out and has a washboard feeling when coming to a stop. There not defective. I reached out to discount tire and they offered to swap them out for anything in the price range. Man that’s going to make a lifetime customer out of me.
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