Surprising Ford F-250 Super Duty FEATURES available on BASE XL STX! BEST VALUE!

In this video, I'm going to go over the features of the XL model for your Super Duty F-250. These are the features that I just found out, you know, because I was excited when I bought a truck. I just want to drive off the dealership. So I'm going to start from the outside all the way inside. But before I begin, though, if you're looking for a Super Duty and you're in a budget, this is probably your best bet. If you're getting an XL, get it with the STX package. Just to show you, this is a XL with an STX package. Everything on this truck is LED to include those lights up top right there, which is I think I love that accent. But not everybody or not all XL will get those top lights, even if you have an STX. This has the running boards and it does have the bed liner. So I'm showing you that because this as is equipped, the MSRP for this entire build for this truck is about $59,000 and just a few hundred dollars over. It's less than $60,000. So I'm going to show you different features first. Some of them you might already know, but some of them you don't. If you just purchased one or you're about to purchase one or you're shopping around for a Super Duty, this video is for you. It might save you time at the dealer. So first, let's start with the key. This is the most basic key you'll have since this is the XL model. Base model, the only difference is it has an STX package. It does have global windows. All you have to do is press and hold on the second press on your unlock button. There you go. However, you can't close it back up. This is good for summertime if you want to cool the interior of your truck before you get in there. For you to roll that back up, you got to insert the key inside and start the vehicle and roll those windows up. So that's the first thing. Now, if you notice, there is no auto start here. However, on your app, which is a FordPass app or the Ford app, you're able to lock, unlock your vehicle from anywhere around the world. And you're also able to auto start it. You can do some settings, whether it's 15 minutes or however long you want to warm up the vehicle. And it actually gives you a map on where your vehicle is last located, where it was parked. So that's a great app because it comes with a sync 4. You really don't need a remote start any longer. Now for the mirrors. These mirrors, since you need to tow, you have to pull it all the way out. Same thing with the other side. So it does extend, even though these are manual mirrors. So it does have the sensors. It's a blind spot sensor. And this right here is very helpful when you're towing. Actually, it's very helpful in general, even when you're not towing. But because of that sensor, I think it's right here. The sensor is right here so that you'll be able to see your blind or at least give you an alert on a blind spot. I got to tell you, though, the front look of the Super Duty is menacing. I love it. But anyway, it does have tow hooks already. It does have your fog lights. Now, I don't know if you knew that. I can't show you right now, but at night, those lights, when you're turning to the left or right, it actually knows, based on the steering, lights up going to the left and lights up going to the right. I don't know how they do that. I know that's a technology, but your truck comes with it, even on an XL model. And then it's auto high beams. So if you're driving down the road and it's really dark and there's nobody around, it just automatically just turns on the high beam for you. And when it detects a car, drops it down to low beam. I guess it's also right here on the camera. It detects if there's a car in front of you so you don't blind drivers. Since you're using this truck to tow, I'm going to plug in my RV because once you plug in the RV, it gives you a lot more features, which I'll show you inside the truck. But let me just plug this in. So let's talk about towing for a second. You'll have a 7-pin and a 4-pin connection, depending on which trailer you're actually connecting to your truck. Just bear in mind, the hitch receiver you have is a 3-inch hitch receiver. So depending on your trailer, if you're towing conventional, you might need a sleeve adapter. You can see two in the back. It has all the backup system, gives you an alert. And you'll have your camera right here for your backup camera. And this is a light. It's a bright LED light. So when you're backing up, the camera can sense or can see what's behind you. I want to show you this first before we go inside. This right here is another camera which enables the truck to have that 360 field of view, which is by far the most beneficial camera that I have, especially in parking tight spaces. And you have another camera right here and another camera on your passenger side. All in all, it's a 360 camera, but I'm not done. There's another camera up top right there, which gives you an idea when you're hitching your fifth wheel or your gooseneck. So let's go inside. All right, let's start the truck. I'll close this windows because it's cold right now. All right. It says cross traffic alert deactivated because you're plugged in the trailer. Those sensors in the bumper won't work. So I'm going to hit OK. Let's start with the basics. This has a sync 4, which enables wireless CarPlay and it syncs everything else. Now, before I give you the features, sometimes this wireless CarPlay right here does not work or sometimes it does work, but you have no audio. For you to be able to fix it on the fly without stopping your car, turning it off, all you have to do is press the power button and the forward, hold it for a few seconds, and it's restarting the entire system. So any problem that you're having with the sync 4, sometimes the camera gets stuck. It doesn't happen very often. But when he does try that first without turning off your truck, that saves you a lot of time. You'll have auxiliary up here switches that you can rig it with different lighting system, whatever you want to add in a truck. I haven't used any one of them yet, but I know that I can. Everything here inside is LED. The only LED or non LED in this truck is your license plate bulb. I don't know why. In the back, you have a power window, which is right up here. It opens it up. One thing though that this XL model doesn't have is it doesn't have vanity mirror. It does have a vanity mirror for your passenger, but not for you. So since we're plugging in a trailer, I want to start there because this is what you're going to be using it for. If you don't have a trailer set up yet, then obviously you're going to start the trailer. But since I have a trailer already, I'm just going to select the trailer that already programmed. Since I'm plugging in my RV, it's the big Bertha. All right. So it just tells you that the sensor doesn't work because it's blocked by the fifth wheel. So I'm going to hit close now. So this is all the menu for your trailer. You can name your trailer, trailer type, trailer trip. Just give you a lot more information about the trailer brake effort, which by the way, you're going to need if you're towing something. But F-250s, it's meant to tow. So you already have electronic brake control, which is also right here. This is your emergency brake. And this is how to adjust your gain. So one thing I want to show you on this, besides all the information, you can play with it. It just gives you a lot more information, trailer maintenance, reminders. But here, if you go down, you want to do a trailer light check. Once you click on that and you hit start and you go outside the truck, it's going to send signal to your trailer left, right, hazard, brake lights. And then you visually look if it's working. It's part of a safety feature. If you're connected, whether it's a fifth wheel or a conventional trailer, once you actually hit the blinkers left or right, it will give you another camera. It uses those cameras right there that's underneath your side view mirror to give you another vantage point, another safety feature, and then right signal. So I think that's a really cool feature. So those are the features that I want to show you when it comes to towing. But here's really the best feature that I love about this truck. Granted, I don't have a 12-inch screen. This is an 8-inch screen. It's the camera system. You click the camera system. If you're on drive or on park, it will give you the front-facing camera. This is the bumper. So I can gauge if I'm about to hit something when I'm driving or when I'm parking this thing. And this right here is a 360 camera. On top of that, you add those side mirrors right there, those bottom ones. You can see a lot clearer and you can park this huge rig anywhere. So that makes it easy. If you tap on the top left corner, which gives you all the options for your camera, this right here is very important. I can't stress this enough. I use this all the time when I'm hooking my fifth wheel because it gives you that view right there. So I can see the hitch right there and the receiver. But on top of that, you can actually zoom in on this thing. So when I put it in reverse, it automatically gives me that view. When you're in reverse, you can zoom the camera. So since we're hitching our fifth wheel, I can see the back. But see that plus button right there? You can press that one. Now I have a better view whether I'm really close. Makes it so much easier to hitch the fifth wheel. I actually don't need any help. I just do it myself. The only thing I got to make sure is I go outside to adjust the height. Now, if you're actually towing with a conventional tow right here, see that right there? That is your tow hitch. So obviously it's going to stick out right there. It gives you a lot more visibility when you're towing a traditional hitch right there. And then I'll put back on park real quick. And then I'll hit this button right there again. You'll have the 360 view. I'm just going to sort through different cameras right here. You have most of them already available. All right, this is your front facing camera. If you just want to look at the front when you're parking, try to estimate when you're parking if you're going to hit something in front of you since this is a really tall truck. And then this gives you a wider angle. I've already showed you this. And this is just in the back. This is the camera that if you're just backing up, backup camera, basically. This is your tow hitch camera, which is zooms into the hitch. This is your side view cameras, which are attached to all those mirrors in the side. And this last one right here is if you want to add a camera. I'm telling you the 360 camera on the F-250 that's included stock from the factory on a base model XL with STX package is, I think for me, the most critical feature that you'll ever need, or at least I'll ever need driving a Super Duty. It makes the transition from a full size truck or a mid size truck going to a big rig like this one, which gives you so much more capability, but less the price of a full size truck. Right here on your main dash, you'll have a small screen. It gives you a lot more information, but the ones that's useful for me, which I like to share is the miles per gallon. It's telling me since I started this that I'm averaging 9.6 miles per gallon because I'm towing a fifth wheel. Actually, it's better than that. It depends really on if I'm driving uphill or downhill, I've seen it from 10 all the way to 13 miles per gallon with the load in the back, which is the fifth wheel. When I had a travel trailer that dropped significantly to seven miles per gallon, whether it's uphill or downhill, simply because how it's attached to the truck. Now driving this, this is my daily driver. I'm getting anywhere from 14 to 16, which is actually not bad for a Super Duty. I used to own a 2009 F-150 and that thing gets about 8 to 10 miles per gallon. It was a V8, but granted that's a long time ago, but the Super Duty came a long way when it comes to MPGs. So technically you can use it as a daily driver. I'm using it as a daily driver and it has a 30 gallon tank, which lasts a long time. Next thing I want to show you is the drive modes. So right here, you'll have two wheel, four wheel, you know all that. And then you've got the locking differential right here, but the drive mode is right here in the middle. If you turn these knobs, it changes your drive modes to normal, slippery roads, off-road and you got eco and you got tow and haul. The cool thing about this, this is a gas engine, man. So when I'm driving downhill and it's in the tow mode, it actually applies engine brake to help with my regular braking on the truck, which I thought only diesel have, but this truck has it. The way you know it, because you can hear the engine try to do or try to stop itself. So that I think is really cool feature. So they packed this F-250 with a lot of safety features when it comes to towing, which it's my opinion, the best value super duty you can buy on the market today. And then the XL with the STX package. The STX makes it really look cool. That's about it. Other than that, when it comes to storage, you'll have a lot of storage. This is a short bed and a super cruise. So there's a lot of storage in this truck, which I'm not going to go over. Those are standard, basically. My opinion, it is the best value super duty truck you can buy in a market. This truck is way cheaper than most midsize and full size trucks on the market, but it offers a lot more capability. To end this video, there's one more feature that I like about the base model. It's some sort of a nostalgia. It's the shifter right here. It makes you feel like you're actually driving a truck.