drsteve wrote:
ppine wrote:
If a 250 is a bigger truck, comes with a long bed, pulls more, gets good mileage and lasts 3x times as long there is no contest.
I know a half dozen people with diesel trucks that have 300 k miles or more on them. The trucks are holding together just fine. They need some repairs like trans, ball joints and glow plugs. The cost of ownership is low over that time period, and they work for everything.
That might work in some places, but here in the snow belt, salt corrosion will eat the rest of the truck well before 300K.
Exactly, unless your driving 50,000 miles a year you'll have an engine with nothing under it.