# Lousy pick-up

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/lousy-pick-up/65373>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [June 11, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/lousy-pick-up/65373 "2011-06-11T19:14:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![divineride](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@divineride](https://community.cartalk.com/u/divineride)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/lousy-pick-up/65373/1 "2011-06-11T19:14:30Z")

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I have a F250 Diesel with 113,000 miles on it. It has been a great truck but lately it has lousy pick-up. I step on the gas and it goes no where! Sometimes the engine revs other times it doesn’t respond at all. I recently moved from NY to Aberdeen, NC so I do not know any mechanics and being a woman find it hard to trust one. Ideas?

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**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/lousy-pick-up/65373/2 "2011-06-11T19:25:29Z")

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I had a friend who had a Ford diesel van. About every 100,000 miles he would have this and it required new fuel filters. On a diesel, these are quite expensive to replace so you will want to make sure that is what is causing the problem before doing this.