Excessive black smoke from diesels means ????
I guess I thought that heavy black smoke from diesels was from over fueling the pump?? but I am not real sure.I am looking at an 06 duramax crewcab with 300,000 miles, and it runs awesome and idles wi...
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My 06 Duramax will smoke like crazy sometimes.... usually if it's just been idling or sitting in traffic for awhile and then I get on it hard. btw, I'm totally stock @ 130K miles.
With that many miles, though, I'd pass. Just too many high dollar things can happen.... not necessarily related to the smoke. Injectors, head gasket and turbo will each run you ballpark 4-6K and at 300K miles that truck it due for something. Of course there are numerous other things that could go wrong to.
IMO, at some point you're buying more of a liability than an asset. Say you pay 10K and in the next two years one of those big 3 goes out (pretty likely IMO). So, now you're 15K into the truck. What can you by with 15K now instead of 10K? Probably something with A LOT less miles.
With that many miles, though, I'd pass. Just too many high dollar things can happen.... not necessarily related to the smoke. Injectors, head gasket and turbo will each run you ballpark 4-6K and at 300K miles that truck it due for something. Of course there are numerous other things that could go wrong to.
IMO, at some point you're buying more of a liability than an asset. Say you pay 10K and in the next two years one of those big 3 goes out (pretty likely IMO). So, now you're 15K into the truck. What can you by with 15K now instead of 10K? Probably something with A LOT less miles.
