High Mileage Trucks: PSD and Cummins and Duramax
Truck has 275k miles and spent most of it's life in Canada. Enjoy... Link Edit: Changed title to include Cummins and Duramax to receive some love too.
Forum Discussion
FishOnOne wrote:valhalla360 wrote:
Most trucks go to the junk yard with perfectly servicable engine cores.
The body, suspension and interior wear out before the engine does.
Curent 2008 V10 has just shy of 250k miles on it heading home from Alaska/Yukon trip right now.
Might still be too early to tell and I don't live in the rust belt, but it appears the aluminum body panels are holding up well to the road salt, but not sure about the frame and suspension components
Aluminum body panels solve one issue but interiors and suspension parts still wear out.
It's economics, if you throw enough money at it, you can keep any vehicle going. But when the truck is only worth $3k in good condition, it doesn't make a lot of sense to dump thousands into thousands into it to keep it in good condition.
