{"id":206,"date":"2016-10-27T17:58:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T22:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scorpionagency.com\/blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2016-10-27T17:58:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T22:58:01","slug":"f350-oil-change-ball-joints-and-new-radiator-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scorpionagency.com\/blog\/f350-oil-change-ball-joints-and-new-radiator-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"F350 Oil Change, Ball Joints, And New Radiator, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, just when you think everything is going smooth and that you tackled all the big stuff on your new 1 Ton truck purchase, you get the bad news that more things were identified that were missed in the initial pre-purchase inspection. Blah!<\/p>\n<p>Today, going in for a routine oil change so that the truck would be ready for the trip to San Antonio, Texas in a week (It&#8217;s maiden voyage), I find out that the radiator has a hairline crack near the top and that both the upper and lower ball joints are in really bad condition on the front passenger side.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, I had them repaired today so that the truck can still make the trip. It was just a little bit of a surprize. Keeping in mind that this Ford F350 1 Ton Crew Cab has a mechanically sound engine, transmission, and no body damage, even these unexpected repair costs still have me feeling comfortable with the combined total investment so far.<\/p>\n<p>If we tally everything up, including; Truck purchase, registration, inspection, insurance, repair costs, etc. the total investment sits at $4,100 (Minus inspection, insurance, registration, title transfer of $425 the truck &amp; repairs itself is more like $3,675). NADA shows this 1996 F350 1-Ton Crew Cab truck in it&#8217;s current condition being valued between $5,500 to $10,000. I think I still got a great deal!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-190\" src=\"https:\/\/scorpionagency.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1996-Ford-F350-Crew-Cab-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"1996-ford-f350-crew-cab\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scorpionagency.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1996-Ford-F350-Crew-Cab-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scorpionagency.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1996-Ford-F350-Crew-Cab.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, just when you think everything is going smooth and that you tackled all the big stuff on your new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,4],"tags":[214,221,213,212,91,172,222,220,223,31],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorpionagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorpionagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorpionagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorpionagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorpionagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scorpionagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/scorpionagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorpionagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorpionagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorpionagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}