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While at the local tire shop, I heard one of the workers mention that a customer's truck had 400K+ miles on it. I started chatting with the customer over the next hour and sure enough, his 2017 F-350 dually has 486,351 miles on it. The only significant problems he mentioned with it was a failed injection pump at 156,000 miles and an exhaust gasket at 250,000 miles. He went ahead and replaced the turbo while doing the exhaust gasket at the recommendation of the shop doing the work. He is still running the original DPF and EGR and stock steering components and does oil changes every 20,000 miles.
He hauls horses (using heavy trailers) all over the lower 48 and racks up a silly amount of miles doing it. I was impressed.
Anyway, here is a pic of the ODO and of the truck.
No on the DW based on our discussion and yes on the mud tires. Many of his pickups and deliveries are off asphalt and he said he still gets stuck from time to time and has to have the owners bring their tractors over to pull him out.
He mentioned that he had a 2012, a 2014 and now this 2017 and he ran the miles up on the previous two as well.
When I send him the link to this thread, I'll ask for his total hours.
I've seen other threads of high mileage working trucks that run constantly and it seems that they have less problems because they're out doing what they were designed to do......work. These 6.7s need to run, they need to get hot, they need to "stretch their legs". Just my 2 cents. Either that or the owners don't have time to post about problems because they're too busy putting miles on!! LOL!!
