Yeah that’s why I’m leaning towards Cat I’m more familiar with them
Yeah I’m just worried that I will be forced to use the dealer with newer trucks and yes older trucks I’m Confident i can fix most including an in...
Yeah that’s some good info that’s basically what I plan on is getting an older and fix her up I’m in no rush
Ok yeah well this truck I’m looking at says it’s been overhauled 100k miles ago but I’ll do a relative compression test to make sure the pistons...
Ok it is 3,55 gears
Yeah definitely thanks for the advice
One more question is do you think an older truck would have more down time than an emissions truck?
Thanks for the great questions I will be trucking in mostly Texas I don’t plan on going out of Texas but if I did it would be the same terrain I...
Yes I have had this in the back of my mind I do plan on doing everything I can myself plus I kinda like working on my own vehicles
Hey so If you’ve seen my other post I’ve been looking into buying a truck in February and I’ve decided I think the older truck 00 KW W900L 550hp...
Yeah I was hearing the only emission truck wortb it is a Detroit and run it till it’s dead but I’m definitely leaning towards older
The truck I’m looking at looks like it will be around there maybe a bit more the truck itself is 50 but I’m ready to put another 50+ in her
So I haven’t had enough understanding of fuel consumption so how do older trucks compare to newer when it comes to fuel efficiency
Ha ha ha yeah it definitely will
Yeah the 06 does have two turbos so should I just forget about that one and focus on the older models the 06 is a better price which makes sense...
Yes exactly I am not even planning to consider buying for atleast a month so I can get all the knowledge to make the best decision but I do think...
Yeah the bank is absolutely ruthless I had to put up a 100k in CD just to get the bank to talk to me about my house ha ha
Wow yeah that was smart I’m jurist buying everything cash but I would like to get my credit score more prominent so I might put something on a...
Yeah exactly! Well I’m looking at a 2006 peterbilt 379 Cat C15 and a 2000 KW W9 3406e both in the same price range just about it would definitely...
Thank you so much for your help this was a very helpful response I am definitely looking into the pre emissions
