Ok, so I’m taking the family to dinner the other night and I pass by a Toyota dealership with a beautiful 250 on the grass out front. After dinner we stop by to get some details. It’s an ’07 Lariat PSD with 19k miles. They are asking $35k for it. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles, but is nicely equipped; especially when compared to my current ‘99 150 XLT. The truck appears to be in very nice condition and drove like a dream. The folks at the dealership aren’t able to tell me much beyond what I already know about these trucks, so I’ve got a couple of questions for the group:

1. A few moments after start-up, the message center displayed “water in fuel.” I know diesel is prone to this (especially if this one has been setting for awhile) and there is a water separator at the fuel filter that needs to be emptied every so often. Is this something to avoid or is it as simple as negotiating in a fuel filter change with the neighboring Ford House?

2. Is anyone willing to run an OASIS report on this truck or would it even tell me anything more than a CARFAX report? Everthing was clean on the CARFAX and by the mileage it seems that it’s spent a pretty normal amount of time on the road instead of the shop. The VIN is 1FTSW21P87EB41958.

Thanks for any input or assistance.

Keep 'em rolling...

 

Water in fuel light comes on when there is like 100cc of water in the fuel/water separator. It just needs to be drained.

For your OASIS report, I'd head over to The Diesel Garage dot com and post it there. My best friend just bought a 2007 F-250 6.0... He loves it.

 

Thanks Zaairman.

I'll head over to the other site and add a post.

 

PM me if you still need help with that report...

Dennis

 

Seems like thats quite a bit to be asking for an 07 with 19k on it already.

 

Not really.

 

I think you could probably get them down in price a bit. Thats a nice truck. I loved my 05 6.0L. Word of advise with any 6.0L block off the egr uppipe and run a tune close the EGR valve...you will be happy in the long run.