Looking at used Ford F-350 high miles
I am looking at some used 05-07 Ford F 350 Duals, 6.0 diesel, with around 200,000 miles, just to pull my TT and assorted camping gear. We expect 6-7 trips per year, 100-300 miles trips. I am fully a...
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shum02 wrote:transferred wrote:Grit dog wrote:
All I can say is there's a reason you're finding those in your budget and not the other 2.
To be fair though, 200kmi on any diesel or any vehicle for that fact opens up a lot of "possible" and some probable failures.
Any 10+year old truck with 6-9000engine hours is a gamble. Just that the house wins more often with a 6.0.
Where do you figure 6-9,000 hours? My truck has 142,000 miles and 3300 hours. 6 would-be at the high end of a 200k truck, 9 would only apply to a beaten oil field rig.
Yup, spending most of it's time idling with an average speed around 22mph. A gummed up truck that would be. Idling absolutely kills this truck. The higher the average speed over the life of this motor the better. Mine is over 40mph.
I just had on of our 06 Cummins in the shop last week replacing the seat cover, new exhaust, oil change , 3 light bulbs, and inner tie rod ends. It has 10,800 hours on it and 207,000 miles.
