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May 9, 2010 | 06:34 PM

BELLBEAR

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Engine mileage versus Engine hours

I have an 05 F350 DW......... when comparing the mileage to the hours what should I look for since I bought this used 3 weeks ago with 79k for mileage......

May 9, 2010 | 06:51 PM

cartmanea

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Divide odometer miles by engine hours and that will tell you average speed for life. Higher is better and indicates all highway miles. For comparison, I recently bought and resold an '06 King Ranch that had 152k miles and 3300 hours, averages to 46mph and it ran and drove almost like new.

May 9, 2010 | 06:54 PM

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the current ford calc for engine hours is 1 hour equals 25 miles.

May 9, 2010 | 07:28 PM

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Avoid things like ambulances or emergency service trucks that spend a lot of hours idling while powering accessory equipment and keeping warm --- unless you have no choice.

In the real cold places, the engine is never shut down in winter until spring.

May 9, 2010 | 07:36 PM

SirHailstone

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I have about 46,000 miles on the odometer and about 1150 hours. Mostly commuting and some stop-and-go city traffic.

May 9, 2010 | 08:14 PM

BELLBEAR

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81663 miles 1904 hours comes out to 42.9 mph good or bad?

May 9, 2010 | 08:26 PM

cartmanea

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Pretty good, I'd say definitely above average.

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May 9, 2010 | 10:58 PM

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is there any way to find engine hours on an 03 id like to know how many i have with 360000km with lots of idleing

May 9, 2010 | 11:52 PM

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cartmanea

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I looked into that a while back, I don't think the '03 records engine hours.

May 10, 2010 | 12:22 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by cartmanea

I looked into that a while back, I don't think the '03 records engine hours.

how about on an 04?

May 10, 2010 | 01:01 PM

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cartmanea

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I don't think they started integrating it until '05.

Sep 3, 2010 | 11:05 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BELLBEAR

I have an 05 F350 DW......... when comparing the mileage to the hours what should I look for since I bought this used 3 weeks ago with 79k for mileage......

I know this is an older thread, but I was just doing some research and came across this thread. As well as this link:

https://www.fleet.ford.com/truckbbas...IDLETIMESS.pdf

Good info there.