750K Mile Duramax

[CoyleJR]

Jim,
I posted this last August after seeing another high mileage Hotshot truck. If you take care of a Duramax it will run forever.
John

08-19-2009, 07:22 PM
CoyleJR
Enthusiast Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Hawaii
Posts: 27

Howes

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Mark

Last week at a rest stop on I 84 in Oregon I talked to a guy that delivers RV trailers. His 2005 D/A, CC, 2x4, DRW has 561,000 miles on it. He uses Shell Rotella 15w-40, and Howes fuel treatment and has never had any problems. He has replaced the water pump, alternator and a front wheel bearing. It sounds like Howes does some good if he could get 561K on the original injectors.
Mark Rinker
Moderator Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 4,722

Mileage
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Wow.
Did you actually see the odometer? 500K since 2004 would be 100K per year, or 2000/week, 50 weeks per year....

Thats some hardcore driving.-------------------------------------------------------------

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Mark,

The guy opened the door and put the key in to get the exact mileage. I did see the mileage and it was about 80 miles away from turning 561k. The guy said he was a former thirty year 18 wheeler owner operator before he started to deliver RVs. I told him about The Diesel Page and asked him to post his truck and mileage. He indicated that he would but so far I have not seen anything. There clearly are some very high mileage Duramax trucks out there that are running good. If I get 300k out of my LBZ with no major problems I will be satisfied.

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[arveetek]

I enjoy talking to the trailer delivery fellows here at the RV dealership I am employed at. Most of them drive late model trucks with a few hundred thousand miles, but once in a while you see some unusual vehicles.

We have one driver with a 97 Ford E-350 custom truck with a sleeper, built on an old ambulance chassis. It has the 7.3L Powerstroke, and over 400K miles.

A few weeks ago, we had a fellow drop off a trailer with an old beat up Dodge. It was a '98 model, pre-24 valve. He had over 960K miles on that sucker! It looked like it did, too. Body was pretty rough, and it leaked about every kind of fluid possible onto our lot.

I have never seen such a high-mileage vehicle that looked as good as the one in this story, though. That truck still looks great!

Casey