200,000 MILE REVIEW OF MY 2017 F250 6.7 POWERSTROKE!

What is going on, everybody? Welcome back  we’re going to do a 200,000-mile review of my 2017 F250 with the 6.7 Power Stroke. We’re currently over 200,000 at the moment—I missed it by a little bit, 202,170. So, I’ll talk as if it was at 200,000. It’s closing up right there. Baby Joe’s all excited. What a beautiful day it turned out to be! It’s crazy winter; it’s February, and we’re sunny outside and nice, which I’m not complaining about. It’s nice to work on most of the interior stuff right now.

Anyways, we’re here for the truck, so let’s give you the quick story. I bought the truck back in April of 2022, April 16th, 2022. It had 139,000 miles on it. It was beautiful, stunning. I bought it because I had a ’22 ordered, and it didn’t come in. Now, if I could go back, I would have stuck it out and probably waited for the ’22. But I needed a truck now, so I bought this, added an extreme markup—an insane one. We’re not going to get into the price and all that stuff and the money because that’s going to be the next video. About this, we’re going to do a full breakdown of what it cost to own and operate a 2017-2016 Power Stroke. I’m going to give you a hint: I bet this costs more than a brand new truck overall.I mean, if you think about it, if you pay payments on it plus repairs here and there and all that good stuff, it probably evens out. You might as well have a brand new one, especially if you’re paying markup for this. If you pay way too much for a ’17, but that’s besides the point; feelings are already hurt, so we’re going to move on from it. Anyway, starting off, I bought this truck, and it’s been great. It’s been pretty reliable; it’s never left me stranded. I’ll go over the issues, so we’ll start with that. When I first got it at 139,000, I drove it about 3,000 miles, didn’t even refill the diesel.

I immediately got rid of it; I was disgusted. I didn’t want to be caught with a dead jug in my hand, so I did not support that cause. I got it deleted immediately. Short after that, I sold the wheels; it had some 22s on it. I sold those and bought some 22 LaRat stocks that are over there on the red truck right now. I put them on here. I sold the stock Michelin for $800, which is exactly what I paid for the wheels and tires brand new. I sold the tires and bought brand new Toyo MTS, put those on there, and ran those a long time.Shortly after that, I needed tires again, bought some Recon Grapplers on the same wheels, and then I realized I had these tires and wheels on the red truck that were sitting there rotting because the motor’s blown. So, I took them off and I’ve been running these for a while, trying to wear them out bald. Then, time goes on; the truck’s deleted, everything’s happy. We moved to Montana; we have a great time. We drive the truck recklessly; we redline it, we do burnouts, we tow the goose neck at 100 miles an hour in hot tune, a couple of good parties, couple of good donuts, couple of good four-wheel drive boosted launches, and that left me needing a manifold at about 157,000.

So, I drove it with a warped manifold and listened to the terrible squealing noises for a whopping 10,000 miles or so, waited till I got back to North Carolina for the winter to visit, and I replaced them. That was an expensive job; it cost me $4,000. I had some other diagnostics going on too, which I still haven’t fixed. Diagnosed the front axle you-joints that were bad, backup camera that was also not working at the time, so I have not fixed the backup camera yet. And I had a different shop, once I got back here, replaced my axle U-joint and hub assembly on this side, which leads to another problem.The shop that did that, about a month later, I went to put these wheels on, and I noticed my front wheel is about to fall off. The bolts holding the hub assembly on were completely loose; almost lost the wheel. Very scary. So, with that being said, it caused my four-wheel drive, the automatic vacuum to get messed up. I assume it’s from that, so yeah, four-wheel drive automatic four-wheel drive does not work now. You can see the hubs are locked right now; that’s kind of annoying, not the end of the world, but anyways, the manifolds—that was a $4,000 repair, it was a pretty big deal. Studs are broke off in the head on the passenger side; driver side, I think, was pretty much the same deal. It was just terrible.

So, exhaust manifolds were warped; had to have them replaced. We went with BD performance manifolds; had that done, they have a lifetime warranty on them. Haven’t had a problem since. Along with that, backup camera was bad; I already mentioned that, so I haven’t fixed that. And then about a week after that, I had glow plug number eight come on on my codes; had that replaced. The guy did it for free because, you know, I just spent a bunch of money with them, so I had that done. Blow plug number eight was replaced free of charge, and then we sailed pretty smoothly for a long time after that. We haven’t had any issues up until after 200,000.Now, that’s where the video gets confusing because if I would have made this video like I was supposed to at 200,000, you wouldn’t even know of this. But the problem occurred at 206,000 and something miles; battery light came on through a code P6, 25, I think, is what it was. From my research, I just haven’t crawled under there because, obviously, why would I want to right now? Why would I want to right now? Um, according to research, these alternators never go out; they last a long time. It’s a dual alternator truck. I was like, “Oh no, an alternator?” Apparently, it’s probably not an alternator; there’s just a wire, a couple of different rub spots that get rubbed.Being that the truck survives and lives on this extremely rough road, I’m fairly certain that that is the problem; it’s a wire. So, I’ll crawl into there, and I’ll find it one of these days, and we’ll fix that. As far as who owned the truck before me and the problems they had, I bought it from a dealer. I did find out who owned it before because of a video on TikTok I posted back when I was a brain-dead TikTok user of the strobe lights. Somebody commented on her say, “Hey, we recognize that truck,” and I found out through them exactly who owned it. I reached out to them, and the truck never had any issues the entire time they owned it for the 140,000. Not one lick of issue, so that was happy, good to know. So, all the major stuff, no problem, no issues with fuel, no CP4 issues, no transmission, no engine problems besides the manifolds.