How many miles for a used diesel truck?
Hello all. Wife and I will be starting from scratch in about one more year. My question is this: Since we will be buying a used tow vehicle, what is a sensible amount of mileage on a diesel truck t...
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I was doing the same about year and a half ago. Brand new Ram 3500 with the Cummins was $38,000 and I decided that was more than I wanted to spend.
I didn't want to get something that was completely worn out and beat up which was all I could find locally are Detroit.
Poked around cars.com, ebay, and other sites for about a month looking at low mileage trucks (less than 75,000 miles). I couldn't find a GM product in my price range and the Rams all seemed to be rusting through at the rear wheel wells.
I found my F350 with 56,000 miles in Texas for $25,000. The dealer paid for my airline ticket and even picked me up at the airport.
Even though it's the horrible-worst-engine-ever-built-it's-gonna-blow-up-any-minute-now Ford 6.0, I've been very happy with it.
I didn't want to get something that was completely worn out and beat up which was all I could find locally are Detroit.
Poked around cars.com, ebay, and other sites for about a month looking at low mileage trucks (less than 75,000 miles). I couldn't find a GM product in my price range and the Rams all seemed to be rusting through at the rear wheel wells.
I found my F350 with 56,000 miles in Texas for $25,000. The dealer paid for my airline ticket and even picked me up at the airport.
Even though it's the horrible-worst-engine-ever-built-it's-gonna-blow-up-any-minute-now Ford 6.0, I've been very happy with it.
