I'm BACK!!! 2023 F-250 Tremor build

Todd780

Todd780

OverCamper
Tex68w said:
Just clicked over 19,000 miles on this truck in 11 months. I really had hoped to keep the mileage down to 15K per year but that's not gonna happen this first year haha. I am taking this coming bird season off from guiding so I expect to shed a few thousand miles there for year two which should help.

No new additions or upgrades to report since my last post, truck has been running great, still very much happy with it overall.
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Good to hear. Looks like you've modded all you need to. Just drive, camp and enjoy!

Sounds like you put on the same kind of mileage I do. I've had my truck just over 2 years and am at about 43,000 miles now. Few recalls but nothing major.

I'll DD it until it hits 125,000 miles then I don't know what I'll do with it. If it hasn't been a pain in my butt and am still towing a camping trailer, I might just keep it and retire it to strictly towing duties and get something smaller to use as a DD. Thinking a 2 door Bronco might be fun.
 
Tex68w

Tex68w

Beach Bum
Todd n Natalie said:
Good to hear. Looks like you've modded all you need to. Just drive, camp and enjoy!

Sounds like you put on the same kind of mileage I do. I've had my truck just over 2 years and am at about 43,000 miles now. Few recalls but nothing major.

I'll DD it until it hits 125,000 miles then I don't know what I'll do with it. If it hasn't been a pain in my butt and am still towing a camping trailer, I might just keep it and retire it to strictly towing duties and get something smaller to use as a DD. Thinking a 2 door Bronco might be fun.
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I will still add a few things like the BD dual fog light kit, maybe a HAM radio in the truck, but nothing major. I'll likely move over to some Fox 2.5 shocks from Accutune in the next year as well. I have it covered in full for 5yr/125K so I will do my best to keep it around for that long because at the current asking price of these trucks I can no longer justify the annual switch and build. IF (that's a BIG if) it's still here at the end of five years and under that 125K miles without any major issues or failures I'll likely keep it and retire it to part time tow duty for out of state trips with the camper and bikes.
 
Todd780

Todd780

OverCamper
Tex68w said:
I will still add a few things like the BD dual fog light kit, maybe a HAM radio in the truck, but nothing major. I'll likely move over to some Fox 2.5 shocks from Accutune in the next year as well. I have it covered in full for 5yr/125K so I will do my best to keep it around for that long because at the current asking price of these trucks I can no longer justify the annual switch and build. IF (that's a BIG if) it's still here at the end of five years and under that 125K miles without any major issues or failures I'll likely keep it and retire it to part time tow duty for out of state trips with the camper and bikes.
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Agreed. MSRP on my '22 was 67K. To get a similarly equipped 2024 F150 would be 82K. And that's just for a 302a XLT. Nutso.

Your truck here is like a 120K truck...
 
Tex68w

Tex68w

Beach Bum
Todd n Natalie said:
Agreed. MSRP on my '22 was 67K. To get a similarly equipped 2024 F150 would be 82K. And that's just for a 302a XLT. Nutso.

Your truck here is like a 120K truck...
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Yea the sticker last year when I bought it was right at $94K, same truck built to the same exact options is now $99K just one year later. Move to a higher trim or bump to a 350 (a waste on a Tremor other than having the sticker) and you'll be pushing $110K loaded out for a SRW truck, insanity.
 
Tex68w

Tex68w

Beach Bum
I clicked over 20K miles on the truck this week. I have been running my trip odometer 1 since Day 1 and the combined city and highway fuel economy over those 12 months/20K miles is 17.101 mpg. I have seen as low as 13.2 mpg when towing, usually 15-17 mpg in town and as high as 24 mpg when running light and unladen on the highway. Given that it's a 8,000 lb brick on 37's I am more than happy with those numbers.
 
Tex68w

Tex68w

Beach Bum
Received and installed and it took all of five minutes. It seems every bit as quality as the OEM console safe and I like that it has a barrel key backup. 4-digits would have been better from a security standpoint but I can live with rolling a faster 3-digit code. The factory tray still fits in behind the safe but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't hoping that that the safe would have stopped the tray from sliding forward entirely as that's one of my biggest gripes about the tray. I trimmed the console bottom pad for the floor of the console itself and reinstalled it.

At the end of the day I am happy to have this in the truck and it's nice to have at least a portion of my console remaining that isn't on total lock down. I highly recommend this product and I appreciate Nick at Apollo Off-Road (@Nick@ApolloOff-Road) for getting it to me so quickly.

Three self-tappers installed

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Safe floor pad installed to cover the hardware

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Safe lid closed and locked

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Console tray installed behind the safe (note my redneck fix for attempting to stop the tray from sliding forward; I used a rubber clip/keeper from the packaging of a gas station phone charger lol)

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OEM console pad trimmed to fit in the new smaller space

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Todd780

Todd780

OverCamper
Tex68w said:
Nah, I just do that on the ground lol.

We lost three of our six blinds this past off-season due to wind and lightning so we had to replace to them. It wasn't a well received use of "fun funds" amongst the group but we really didn't have much choice.
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Those are some pretty fancy looking blinds. Are those for upland hunting?
 
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