Badger: I am hoping to someday see 1,000,000 miles on my 1996 Dodge Cummins Diesel - I have 126,000 (6,000 miles per year average) on it now so I have a LONG way to go.
Needless to say with the current price of pickup trucks I only bring my diesel VarmintMobile out on "special" occasions anymore!
I bought it new and folks often ask if I will sell it (as its the last of the VERY dependable and VERY good mileage 12 valve models) to them.
Anyway I would like to have a new truck but would NOT even consider paying the prices that they are asking for them.
Some time back I had a friend that drove his Dodge Diesel back and forth everyday from Miles City, Montana to Billings, Montana (and at Christmas season he made the trip twice a day!) packing U.S. mail and he had over 1,000,000 miles on his Dodge Cummins - he told me the only thing he had replaced were the tires!
His truck was an automatic and mine is the 5 speed manual transmission.
Back when I started buying 4x4 pickup trucks (1968) it was not unusual to have to rebuild a gas engine at 60,000 - 70,000 miles!
Times have changed.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy
My ‘14 gets used a little more than that. Clicked over 91k miles yesterday with it. Plan is to do 300k just like the last one and then re-evaluate. Company truck so there are some benefits to replacing it rather than keeping it forever. My ‘03 which I sold to a friend and Campfire member in Houston is still going well at 350k plus miles. I do miss that truck, it was a lot faster than this one is
