My 2005 has 175,00 miles and a little over 3800 engine hours. What is the best way to judge amount of wear on the engine (miles vs. hours)? No problems with engine just curious at this stage of the game. It still uses about 1/3 quart of oil in between changes at every 5,000 miles.

 

Do you mean 17,500 or 175,000?

That is a TON of hours for 17,500, but to get 175,000 miles on a 2005 would require roughly that many hours (averaging 46 mph).

In airplane engines, life is measured in hours. However that's because the hours are pretty much all at a high duty cycle. In cars it's a lot different. You have cars idling forever and doing a lot of local driving. That's high on the hours, but low on the miles.

There's probably some combination of the two. The higher average speed (miles/engine hours) the better off I think you are, since that means more highway time.

 

It is for sure One Hundred Seventy Five Thousand. I did 17,500 in the first four months that I owned it.

 

OK, I'm curious. What do you use this truck for? That is a bunch of miles for an 2005 vehicle. Or, maybe I am just out of touch with reality and miles driven a year.

 

My 2005 has ALMOST 15,000 miles on it, so I guess I don't drive it enough .

 

I travel the metro Atlanta area and the southeast for a glass company. I oversee our field operations mostly in Ga, Tn, and Al. It has been a great truck so far and I don't see why it shouldn't continue. I would like to get 250-300,000 on it before i trade. The v-10 does have it's downside with not the best gas mileage but it hasn't been in the shop for repairs like my friends with diesels. It always pulls any load that I put behind it and I'll leave for Huntsville, Al in the morning with a 18' trailer loaded with material. I just got back from Nashville yesterday from a two day trip so that's how the miles add up. When we originally bought the truck I looked at the cost of the diesel option, the cost of maintenance, and the difference in fuel price and the numbers showed I would have to drive between 185-195,000 miles to make up the difference in the so called better mileage that diesels should get. That is why I choose the v-10 and haven't been dissappionted. I like when i go to the dealership and get my oil change and drive out the door while there are always 10 to 12 diesels with the motors torn apart for some mechanical failure. I need to be on the road working not wondering when I'll get my truck back from an engine failure. Just my experience with the v-10 and what i see. Oh, yes! My oil change at the dealership is 24.95 total and I bet a diesel is at least 3 times that.

 

Got to love the V-10.
~Gage~

 

If doing the miles, then go by odometer, a standing piesce of machinery like heavy equipment, generator ar as stated before go by hours for abvious reasons. We have had a couple of v-10's that have had very close to 300,000. Take care of it it will last longer than the rest of the truck. I have an 04 diesel 6.0 with 230,000. Good luck with the v-10 I ahve one in my excursion and love it.

Brian

 

That is great to hear that you have been getting such reliable service out of your V10.

What I really try to look for is miles and years. However normally I will buy used vehicles in the 5-10 year old range with under 100k on them. I try to find the vehicles that get driven less than 10k per year, but that has less to do with the engine and more to do with the overall wear on the vehicle. I'm not sure if that's really the best way to do it, but it seems to have worked alright for the time being.

You should be able to run your truck for a while longer yet. The kind of mileage that you put on your truck is not unlike the mileage that the guy with the million mile E-series van with the 5.4 does. Maybe if you keep with the truck long enough you'll end up with a million mile V10 Super Duty?

 

I guess I don't either, I just went over 12K.

Rob

 

^^Great testament to the v10s reliability. I would worry more about the rest of the truck than the engine!

 

Well I quess I shouldn't have said anything about my truck. On my trip to huntsville on Monday my fuel pump decided that at 175,000 it has had enough. I made it back home but it was an interesting trip. It would run 75 down hill and 45 uphill and it didn't help that I was pulling that trailer. First thought that it was the converters but found out that it was only pushing 4 psi and sometimes near zero. I made back and got the pump replaced and we're as good as new. Can't complain, she has never left me on the side of the road.

 

One fuel pump in 175,000 miles sounds acceptable to me!