New to your forum - old to diesels

Hey y’all,

I’ve been obsessed with diesels for about 20 some years now. Don’t know exactly why - just am. Maybe because most of my career has been being a heavy equipment operator and truck driver.

I don’t know how exactly it started but got my first VW TDI around the year 2000 which was a 1998 Jetta. It was in poor shape but running so I fixed it up. My wife then used it as her daily driver until I sold it. The reason it was her daily driver is that I have always had an F150 under my butt.

My very first vehicle back in 1974 was a F100 with a short bed that I got from a local farmer. Since then have never been without but only bought 2 brand new in my lifetime. All F150’s so of course no diesel for me.

The TDI obsession took me through 7 different Jettas over about 10 years. I would buy them either beat up or not running, fix them up, and sell them. Can’t say that I every actually made any money doing it but it was my hobby which I loved.

During all this time I told myself that if Ford ever put a diesel in an F150 I would have one. Well….when 2018 came around I was not in the position anymore to buy a new pickup - financially that is. So all I did was drool looking at them online.

There was a white platinum Lariat at my really small rural local dealer. It sat there and sat there - drove me nuts! Then finally it disappeared. I figured it was traded off to another dealership since nobody local wanted it.

2 weeks ago I was at the Ford shop with my 2015 Lariat (2.7l) and as I do I walk around the lot while there. Came upon this 2018 white Lariat on the line and paused to look. I like me my white Lariats. And then I noticed the badge on the door - POWER STROKE!

Turns out it is the same truck I was drooling over 3 years ago that just came back in after a lease.

I’ll stop there - will start a thread in the purchasing section titled “I need a sanity check”.

I must mention one more thing. For the past few days I’ve been doing all the research I can on these sweet diesels and came upon your forum. I gained a wealth of information here and here I am. Kudos to the mods and all the members for a well organized forum!