2011 Ram with 500K miles
There is a post on Cumminsforum.com about a 2011 Ram that has racked up 1/2 million miles in less than 3 years. THAT is a lot of time behind the wheel.
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Let me clarify Wiley75!
We have a business in the form of a Ranch and a Farm that we have several trucks for our work hands. My BIL is one of several family members who has to maintain these trucks. These trucks don't pull campers or 5ver's like the many here use, but rather these are trucks used to pull massive cattle trailers into some really remote areas, down rutted gravel roads, and even rutted muddy dirt roads. These are trucks that pull fertilizer tanks to the fields, run parts, check fields on a daily basis and some are even idled for long periods just for extra lighting in the field. They are drove hard and put up wet so to speak. My BIL had a 6.7 Cummins for ~ 9 months and it simply couldn't perform reliable to either the 5.9, 6.9, 6.0, 7.3 diesels we had or have.
No go bust some of the other fanboys in this thread! And you know who your giving a free pass my friend! :W
Yup. If you are idling the trucks for long periods of time and spending lots of time on very rough roads where you can only go 5 or 10 miles per hour then a DPF equipped vehicle such as a 6.7 Cummins is not the right choice..... for you.... in your specific Texas ranching application. Sorry to sound like an arm-chair quarterback, but perhaps you should have done more research before purchasing DPF equipped trucks for that application as failure was basically a sure bet and 100% predictable. That doesn't necessarily mean that the 6.7 Cummins is a bad engine in stock form though. You just gotta use it for what its intended for.
