How many Trouble free miles out there?
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#64
Deleted and customized from the beginning! 43k miles and 20 months later other than regular oil/fuel filter change, nothing repaired, OE or custom. Same tires, same brakes..... same everything!!... unlike my 6.0L LOL.....need I say more !?!? That's a whole new thread LOL
That is a sweet looking rig, How do you drive that thing around town lol?
#69
Time for an update?
Currently at 202K miles, still doing RV Transport, so approx 50% towing.
Overall mileage is just under 15 mpg.
Flushed Trans & Radiator at 100K, will being doing that again soon, along with maybe a new serpentine belt.
Still on the original front brake pads, replaced rears at 165K.
New rear end oil around 150K
No battery issues.
Radiator still leaves a couple drops on the driver side once in awhile. The gallon of special orange drink, which made two gallons, is almost gone, but lasted about 150K, so at this point I'll just keep keeping an eye on it.
I'll continue to change the dinosaur oil every 10K, with fuel filters every other change.
About time for air filter number 4...
Can't think of anything else.
It's still earning it's keep, still pulls as hard as ever.
Hopefully I'm back here at 303K & 404K miles, with equally boring updates.
Overall mileage is just under 15 mpg.
Flushed Trans & Radiator at 100K, will being doing that again soon, along with maybe a new serpentine belt.
Still on the original front brake pads, replaced rears at 165K.
New rear end oil around 150K
No battery issues.
Radiator still leaves a couple drops on the driver side once in awhile. The gallon of special orange drink, which made two gallons, is almost gone, but lasted about 150K, so at this point I'll just keep keeping an eye on it.
I'll continue to change the dinosaur oil every 10K, with fuel filters every other change.
About time for air filter number 4...
Can't think of anything else.
It's still earning it's keep, still pulls as hard as ever.
Hopefully I'm back here at 303K & 404K miles, with equally boring updates.
My 2011 is at 117,000 miles.
Trouble free till the mid 90's when reductant pump sensor started acting up.
Had to put it on a diet at 100,000, so far, no more issues.
Bought new in Nov of 2010, only had 36,000 by May of 2013. It hadn't done any work other than a couple pulls of my 40' toy hauler until May when I started using it for RV transport. Since then about 50% of the miles have been with anything from a 21' TT to 40' fifth wheel.
Trouble free till the mid 90's when reductant pump sensor started acting up.
Had to put it on a diet at 100,000, so far, no more issues.
Bought new in Nov of 2010, only had 36,000 by May of 2013. It hadn't done any work other than a couple pulls of my 40' toy hauler until May when I started using it for RV transport. Since then about 50% of the miles have been with anything from a 21' TT to 40' fifth wheel.
#73
I'm up to 65k now with maybe 15% of that towing. I wish I could enjoy the long service intervals that wtrlogd achieves with all his highway driving, but my 8 mile commute to work kills the oil and it hasn't seemed to help with brakes either. Being in a construction environment also cuts down on air filter life, but I still get around 40k out of them.
I do have the luxury of mostly a single fuel source unless we are on the road with the camper. Probably 90% of my fuel has come from the same source and at 15k my fuel filter is usually sparkling clean. I could easily go 20k on the fuel filters with no worries, but I have a pile of them in the garage and it's cheap insurance to change them and get a look at what is going on in the fuel system.
Tires are another story. I seemed to get much better wear on my 2006 6.0 than this truck which is setup basically the same. I even did a lot of burnouts with the 06 on the first set of tires and got 52k out of them. The only reason I replaced them at that point was because we were in the middle of Winter and it was snowing a lot. Had it been May or June, I would have run them another 5-7k at least! The first set of Michelins on the 11 only made it to 48k, but in all fairness, I did replace them early because they were showing some sidewall cracking and I was about to take a few long trips with the toy hauler which puts close to 3200 lbs on the truck. I figured giving up 5k on the tires was a lot better than sitting on the side of the road with half the side of the truck beat up from a blown tire. I'm sitting at about 17k on the Terra Grapplers right now and I'm thinking they may actually make 50k if I treat them right.
All in all, it is still the best truck I have ever owned and that is coming from a guy that has owned a few Toyotas back in the day when Toyota was the benchmark of reliability and longevity.
I do have the luxury of mostly a single fuel source unless we are on the road with the camper. Probably 90% of my fuel has come from the same source and at 15k my fuel filter is usually sparkling clean. I could easily go 20k on the fuel filters with no worries, but I have a pile of them in the garage and it's cheap insurance to change them and get a look at what is going on in the fuel system.
Tires are another story. I seemed to get much better wear on my 2006 6.0 than this truck which is setup basically the same. I even did a lot of burnouts with the 06 on the first set of tires and got 52k out of them. The only reason I replaced them at that point was because we were in the middle of Winter and it was snowing a lot. Had it been May or June, I would have run them another 5-7k at least! The first set of Michelins on the 11 only made it to 48k, but in all fairness, I did replace them early because they were showing some sidewall cracking and I was about to take a few long trips with the toy hauler which puts close to 3200 lbs on the truck. I figured giving up 5k on the tires was a lot better than sitting on the side of the road with half the side of the truck beat up from a blown tire. I'm sitting at about 17k on the Terra Grapplers right now and I'm thinking they may actually make 50k if I treat them right.
All in all, it is still the best truck I have ever owned and that is coming from a guy that has owned a few Toyotas back in the day when Toyota was the benchmark of reliability and longevity.
#75
Long intervals, like 3-4 weeks between? LOL
OEM BFG were all cracking at 36K, I got 50% warranty on them
BFG Commercials lasted 50K
Coopers last me 60K
Michelin's are on it now, still okay for the summer at 55K. We'll see how long they last, but they cost twice that of the Coopers...