Old truck appreciation (and high mileage)

[1100RemingtonMan]

I’m running a 2008 GMC 1500 4x4 Z71 with 193,000 on it. I have had Ford Chevy and this GMC and it has been the worst of the three, with having to have repairs. But it’s still running.
I did order a new Chevy and even put a down payment of $ 1000.00 a week later they mailed me my money back as they could not get what I ordered. All I wanted was a Chevy Trail Boss in Brown color with the 5.3L engine.
I ordered from a different manufacture two weeks ago we will see what happens.

 

[Deputy sheriff]

2012 Ram 1500 5.7 hemi 180,000 km 2 3/4 inch lift front Bilstien, never let me down.

 

[Tuckman]

I’m running a 2008 GMC 1500 4x4 Z71 with 193,000 on it. I have had Ford Chevy and this GMC and it has been the worst of the three, with having to have repairs. But it’s still running.
I did order a new Chevy and even put a down payment of $ 1000.00 a week later they mailed me my money back as they could not get what I ordered. All I wanted was a Chevy Trail Boss in Brown color with the 5.3L engine.
I ordered from a different manufacture two weeks ago we will see what happens.

You ordered from the same manufacturer...and ordered from a different dealer...Sorry...I had too. Good luck this go around!

 

[Farmerj]

Traded the 2012 2500 Cummins on a 2020 F-150.

The 3000# weight loss is gonna be appreciated.

 

[MThuntr]

Not mine.

This is my son Stephen standing next to the trusty Hollis Adventure Rental known as "Martin". Complete with bullet hole in the rear passenger door from a previous renter.

He creaked and groaned like I do getting out of bed, but never failed us.

Ha our crew has to make few calls over to Hollis Adventure and I see Martin is still on the list. Don't they call those speed holes once install?

 

[Zootownelk]

4-Wheel Drive is 90% attitude...

 

[Treeshark]

1996 F-150, 167K on it. I actually bought this kinda recently, and am hoping to keep it going for a long, long time. We’re a family of three (wife and a little one) and I love cramming into the bench seat with them.View attachment 211058

This is a really sharp truck, I can see why you’d want to keep it a while. Very nice.

 

[Washington Hunter]

2002 Silverado I bought new in October of 2001, for $28,000 IIRC. It's got about 188,000 miles on it. Other than normal maintenance stuff, only things I ever had to do was replace the fuel pump, and the alternator. Just used it this last fall for a hunting trip to Wyoming and put nearly 3,000 miles on it. Don't plan to ever get rid of it.

 

[wtrfwlhunter]

1997 7.3 F250 has 345,xxx miles.

The truck Kind of took a crap this fall, so it might Be put on reserve as a backup rig soon.

 

[treedagain]

2001 with barely 200k

 

[Vek]

Don't have a photo, but the '99 CCLB 4x4 F350 XL with 7.3 and manual trans has 444k at the moment. I bought it with 369k. My FIL did some tractor bucket bodywork on the passenger door so now it has doors from an '06, along with enough of that truck's wiring harness to run the new power windows/locks/mirrors. That wiring exercise was a job...I had the wiring harness untaped spread out and broken down on my entire 2-car garage floor, getting it adapted to my rig. Bed is from an '04 as my wife had an altercation with a Winco cart corral. I've swapped drivetrain fluids, new springs/shocks on all 4 corners, new front end bearings and brakes, new rear brakes, disabled the rear ABS, rebuilt the turbo, deleted the exhaust flapper, rebuilt the fuel filter housing, installed new steering box, new water pump and idler bearings, new PS pump, etc and so forth. Seats are out of an '08. Gauges and hydra programmer. Added a junkyard steering column with cruise control and the little brake wire pigtail needed to wake up the computer enough to run cruise control. Nothing too major but lots of little things, and it works great.

My wandering eye looks at lots of trucks but I sure don't feel badly scraping sage down the sides of mine. Anything newer will be a gas rig...i'd love to stumble across a '05 - '10 F350 CCLB with V10 and a stick, but that's a unicorn.

 

[HowieNH]

2010, 345,000 miles.

wow thats alot of miles on the salty roads great looking yota

 

[shrapnel]

2000 GMC 5 speed 454 with 160,000 miles and still hauling elk out of the woods…

 

[Firehead117]

Look it’s a little brother (v6) to yours Wyatt G… 04 4Runner w/ 220k. Love it and won’t get rid of it… when slick or icy add some rear vbar chains it’s a beast and taken me places I never thought I should have gone. Open the door to many successful hunts!

 

[Flatbrimmer]

2000 GMC 5 speed 454 with 160,000 miles and still hauling elk out of the woods…


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Where are the footprints?? Lol I’d like to hear this story..

 

[KB_]

Don't have a photo, but the '99 CCLB 4x4 F350 XL with 7.3 and manual trans has 444k at the moment. I bought it with 369k. My FIL did some tractor bucket bodywork on the passenger door so now it has doors from an '06, along with enough of that truck's wiring harness to run the new power windows/locks/mirrors. That wiring exercise was a job...I had the wiring harness untaped spread out and broken down on my entire 2-car garage floor, getting it adapted to my rig. Bed is from an '04 as my wife had an altercation with a Winco cart corral. I've swapped drivetrain fluids, new springs/shocks on all 4 corners, new front end bearings and brakes, new rear brakes, disabled the rear ABS, rebuilt the turbo, deleted the exhaust flapper, rebuilt the fuel filter housing, installed new steering box, new water pump and idler bearings, new PS pump, etc and so forth. Seats are out of an '08. Gauges and hydra programmer. Added a junkyard steering column with cruise control and the little brake wire pigtail needed to wake up the computer enough to run cruise control. Nothing too major but lots of little things, and it works great.

My wandering eye looks at lots of trucks but I sure don't feel badly scraping sage down the sides of mine. Anything newer will be a gas rig...i'd love to stumble across a '05 - '10 F350 CCLB with V10 and a stick, but that's a unicorn.

CCLB with the v10 and stick is rare. I wouldnt keep walking on an automatic version tho. 5r110 is a good transmission and that v10 is not powerful enough to really worry much about it. Mine is a f250 CCLB v10 with the auto in the lariat package, also rare. Its a pig but I like it.

 

[jabber]

I currently have two 2500HD Duramax trucks. The "new" one is a 2015 model with just over 100,000 on it. The one pictured below is my daily driver. It's a 2011 model which was the first year for the DEF. Once I figured that out, it has been pretty reliable. Had to put the second set of brakes on it last month.

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A little over a year later and hit a milestone

 

[Farmerj]

I know what you mean on Mile stones.

 

[HuntTalk Freak]

2012 Tacoma base model. Have 199k miles on it with very few issues until a few weeks ago. I kept putting off the vibration coming from the drive shaft and so a unjoint gave out and sheared the yoke. I finished putting a whole new driveshaft in today. The horn quit working a while back and I need to fix that for registration purposes.

 

[NM-Newb]

94 F150 with 90k on the clock all shined up...

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Do you go anywhere?