Truck Prices & Mileage
Starting to look at used trucks in order to pull a 5th wheel (don't have the 5th wheel yet). Will be looking at used, gas, 3/4 ton. I have never owned a truck before. I live in upstate NY. I can't...
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smurfs_of_war wrote:DutchmenSport wrote:
100,000 miles on a gasoline engine, and they are ready for an over-haul.
Maybe back in the 60's or 70's. 100k on a gas engine now is no sweat. Welcome to the 21st century, your tour guide should be here shortly.
Eggzactly! I'm "only" 45 years old, but still have that feeling somehow from the olden days that 100k is when a vehicle may likely need to be "rebuilt".
I'm pretty confident, looking back, that beginning in the 90s, that "100k" started turning to "200k". Now 200k or possibly more is the old 100k.
Thing is, a lot of it boils down to care, maintenance and preventative repairs....no surprise. Someone in the rust belt who drives the vehicle year round, parked outside, doesn't see a car wash between thanksgiving and Easter is still going to have rusted out junker in 10 years even though it may only have 100k and the rust isn't just fender wells, it's everything in the undercarriage and the repair costs then qualify it as a "junker" because the brakes locked up and the oil pan rusted out, etc.
all hypothetical things here, but I'm not off by much. Drive back to WI this fall and half the 10 year old trucks like ours looked like C RAP.
If my finances dictated, I wouldn't have issue with buying a newish used truck with 50-100k miles if it was babied and expect relatively trouble free use for another 100k.
