How much is this Cascadia worth?

Would some of you guys say that it’s still a better idea to get a glider instead of new emissions truck. I’m talking 17 and 18 emissions trucks not the older 12-13.

 

If you want to get a tractor FTL Glider, I'd only get a Coronado with an S60 and 10/13/18 speed.

 

I look at it like this, back when I had my shop in the late 70's early 80's the cars sucked emissions pretty much screwed up everything, we went from carbs to computerized carbs to analog inj to digital inj. to sequential inj, to TBI, and now direct injection, the trucks from 2004 to 2013 are in the same boat.

You now have cars with smaller motors and higher performance and better mileage than ever thought possible, trucks are getting there, where 15 liters are giving way to 13 liters and 11 liter motors now have 14 liter performance.

I really believe that from around 2015 on you will see improved reliability from these new motors, as I said, I am really struggling with whether to buy new trucks or keep what I have, and mine are all 2010's supposedly some of the worse!

 

My truck is a 2017 cascadia dd15 the question that keeps going through my head is. Do I keep this one and run it till who knows how long or get a glider run that then overhaul it. I want to believe that these new ones can go to say 800k without needing to be overhauled.

 

If you like the truck, AND you take care of it, I would probably keep it? Unless you need a tax write off you only have a year depreciated out on it right??? By the time another 3 years rolls around who know what might be out there, lol

 

Yeah plus it should be paid off by the time it hits 450k.

 

If you have that paid off by 450,000 I would think you would be in great shape to get whatever you could want as you would still have a somewhat decent trade value at that mileage???

 

At Ozark we run 99% Cascadias all 2013 or newer. I ask the mechanics what they think of the DD15 engine. They say its a great engine, decent power, but leaks like a sieve. I asked them what part they change the most on it, they say the gaskets. More than one has mentioned specifically a lot of leaking around the camshaft housing.

I've had my truck since July 4th and it's been in a shop at least a dozen times. 95% were nit picky things. You can tell it's a Chrysler product. The drivetrain is great, everything else falls apart around it.

 

Mercedes Product, Chrysler is now owned by Fiat.

 

I think there are two issues with a higher mileage engine. One is care and one is how it was driven, you can't assume that they have been taken care of even if the records show they have.

Example

I went to Denver to look at three trucks a bunch of years back. From the images they sent they were clean, everything just looked like a quick sale and a drive home with all three of them.


I got a copy of the records showing everything was done on time and with precision, the annuals were good, not perfect but good.

However when I had the oa done, it showed a different story, then the mechanic I had brought with me said no way, they were just beaten into the ground and not worth scrap value - which is what I offered and flew back home.

The oa showed engines that were abused, high metal content, signs of no oil changes for lots of miles, even the trans fluid was jakey, but the rear axle on one truck has fresh fluid in it which really was odd.