the truck could have been owned by people similar to my neighbors. They have an 02 power stroke. they live in the woods 1 mile down a hole through the woods, Its nothin but mud. A couple years ago they came out with there tailgate dragging behind the truck retained by one gate cable only. they told me they went in for warranty work and they told the dealer it was an 02 and he said "it cant be" This truck is covered in mud. The back window is broke out, no tailgate the bed fender wells caved in dents in the body and it still runs, and im sure there still making there 6 to 700. 00 truck payment. the interior is great, you could get a 5 gallon pail of sand off the floor boards.
Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
. In October of 04 he bought an 01 F350 Lariat crewcab longbed single wheel 4x4 with a Powerstroke and 100k miles. If I was standing there looking at it with him, I'd have told him to keep looking. It looked to be a hard 100k. But he was chomping at the bit to get a truck and he had to have it. I looked at it the day after he got it. The first thing I thought when he fired it up was that it had an engine miss. From there, things went quickly down hill. The first time he towed something with it, it overheated. Come to find out the radiator, air to air, and everything else up front was plugged with manure. This thing was a ranch truck. The whole underside was caked (and I'm talking CAKED THICK) with manure! He ended up owning the truck less than a month. In that time, he had to have it repaired 3 times (to the tune of $800 a pop) because it quit running. The dealership wouldn't even talk to him about it. I think the moral of the story is to look over any used vehicle you buy very closely. In either my buddies situation or the author of this thread it would have paid to at least look under the truck. It could save alot of headaches. 
