@Mitch E, This looks like a nice truck that has had a string of unforunate failures. I probably speak for 95% of the people who visit this forum, as thinking: "I would consider buying this, but I already own a diesel F-150 that I am very happy with...." As such, you may have better luck with a Superduty forum where people are Ford-loyal but are not thrilled with their fuel economy and might reconsider whether they need a 1-ton or 3/4-ton truck. Autotrader, Craigslist, etc, may also be a good venue. I personally bought my truck based on an extremely clean, well-photographed and documented ad from Craigslist in a town over 4,000 miles away. Those of us searching out rare vehicles know how to find them via sites like SearchTempest and the like.
If you are interested in selling the truck, take more than two photos. Clean up oxidation on the tires. I assume there are no full-foilage maple trees in Minneapolis at this time of the year, so make the truck look like you haven't been trying to sell it for 6 months. Make us want the truck.
"this truck has had over $30,000 worth of warranty work" You can spin an engine replacement as something positive due to a one-off failure and powertain now being essentially new. You can also present a vehicle as a money-pit that should have been lemon-lawed when it still had a chance. This ad(?) comes off as the latter. By all means, mention the engine replacement, but throwing warranty dollars that should mechanically total a vehicle out there does nothing to persuade a perspective buyer.
"my girlfriend doesn't want to ride" tells me a more about your girlfriend that the truck, but it does nothing to make the truck more desirable either.
"Hopefully, someone who loves these 3.0's will have a good truck for many years" broken down into my 8th grade grammar class fish-bone diagram states that "hopefully, someone (
who loves these 3.0s) will have a (
good) truck (for many years). The implication is that you hope this truck makes it long enough for the title to transfer before something catastrophic happens. After all of that, I was expecting to see a selling price of $25,000.
To make a long story longer, if you want to sell it, try a forum that is not full of people that already own one. And sell it as something desirable rather than a radioactive turd. If you are venting about your ownership experience, then it looks like you have accomplished your mission, and market it for a price to reflect that it is a problem-vehicle.
This is all coming as the self-acknowledged worst sales-person I've ever known.
Good luck with the sale.
