A new truck becomes "Ours"

Lack of consistent internet has caused this post to be delayed by one day:




 

After waiting (im)patiently at Keystone State Park to pick up our new F450, the transaction is finally complete! Once the title to our old truck was forwarded to the dealer, we met with them and finalized the sale. Luckily there were no glitches and no hold-ups. The salesman thought it was pretty cool that he didn’t have to go over any of the truck’s systems with Paul, since Paul pretty much knew more than he did. This truck has so many more features than I even knew, it’s amazing. It can be programmed so that it knows

 how many miles and hours it tows our 5th wheel, and we can program multiple trailers into the memory bank. I will no longer have to write down our “towing miles” to have a record of it.



the hitch goes in last



Of course, the navigation system was one of the main things we wanted and it is user friendly enough that I had our destination programmed within seconds. It does have all kinds of added features that we will have to learn over time. One thing it doesn’t seem to have is the ability to add custom Points Of Interest, which is disappointing because I would have liked to program in Low Clearance bridges across the country.

 
 

With the Sirius Radio, we have instant weather, a 5 day weather forecast, and a weather map, all of which we can access with a push of a button or a voice command. We can also find the nearest and/or cheapest diesel fuel in the area, a very nice perk. I don’t know if we’ll keep all that ability once our complimentary subscription is up, but for now we’ll enjoy it.

Once we got back to the campsite, it took us (mostly Paul) about 5 hours to make the truck “ours”. We pulled off some graphics, and added our toolbox and hitch.  It was a hot and sticky day for working outside, but very satisfying that everything went together well.