Since gas has been really cheap and since I consider ten cents a mile or so in fuel expense to be reasonable, I've been doing my fifty mile round trip commute in the E350 for the past month or so and we've been running some weekend shopping trips in it as well.
This is an enormous vehicle that offers four rows of rear seats (or it did until I took the seats out of it) and has a GVWR of about 9.5K pounds, but like anything you drive, it shrinks around you as you drive it.
Once you become accustomed to its width and length, driving it is no problem and backing it into parking spaces isn't either.
Fuel economy has been a low of thirteen and change and a high of sixteen and change.
I may as well get some miles out of this old beast before it either succumbs to rust or needs a set of tires, either of which would see it sold on or scrapped.
I guess that I'm trying to say that this old beast has more miles left in it than I'm likely to use it, so I may as well drive it.
It did perform yeoman duty in moving both of my sons last summer and it is a great hauler.
I'd say that it was worth the $900.00 I paid for it as a 70K old beast in October 2014.
So far I've had to give it a new starter and I've changed its oil.
Starter replacement and an oil change are no work at all with a vehicle you can easily get underneath.
I never imagined that I'd own an extended length ton van and daily drive it, but I guess I have.
I also never imagined that I'd be running vehicles as old as some of those we have, but as long as they do what we need them to do, then why not?
I can say that everyone else yields to the old dear in traffic.
I would as well.
This is an enormous vehicle that offers four rows of rear seats (or it did until I took the seats out of it) and has a GVWR of about 9.5K pounds, but like anything you drive, it shrinks around you as you drive it.
Once you become accustomed to its width and length, driving it is no problem and backing it into parking spaces isn't either.
Fuel economy has been a low of thirteen and change and a high of sixteen and change.
I may as well get some miles out of this old beast before it either succumbs to rust or needs a set of tires, either of which would see it sold on or scrapped.
I guess that I'm trying to say that this old beast has more miles left in it than I'm likely to use it, so I may as well drive it.
It did perform yeoman duty in moving both of my sons last summer and it is a great hauler.
I'd say that it was worth the $900.00 I paid for it as a 70K old beast in October 2014.
So far I've had to give it a new starter and I've changed its oil.
Starter replacement and an oil change are no work at all with a vehicle you can easily get underneath.
I never imagined that I'd own an extended length ton van and daily drive it, but I guess I have.
I also never imagined that I'd be running vehicles as old as some of those we have, but as long as they do what we need them to do, then why not?
I can say that everyone else yields to the old dear in traffic.
I would as well.
