Just seeking opinions on a used Duramax

rhagfo wrote:

krobbe wrote:
Higher mileage in a Texas truck is waayy better than lower mileage in one from the rust belt. BTW, I had my newly purchased (at the time) 10 year old truck shipped up from San Antonio. I actually enjoy crawling under it to change the oil filter and seeing so little corrosion. With only summer duties, my truck has a good life.

I would never consider a 10 year old truck with 164,000 miles to be "High Mileage"! that is only 16,000 miles a year! Likely many of those miles are highway which is far better for the diesel than city miles short distance.

yup. I passed my 95S10 to my son, he sold it with 260K on the odo, still running fine when I passed by 04.5 duramax with 125K miles on it to him when I picked up the 2015 Denali.

yes, by 250K the s10 had gone through a radiator, an alternator, a water pump, a set of shocks, and a few other things that wore out, but it was still pretty tight and rattle free and running good. Used about 1qt of oil every 4K miles, transmission was still in good shape.

Did eat brake pads, they lasted about 25-30K miles, unlike the duramax that at 125K miles still has about 1/2 the pad material left.