Is buying used the best Option?

30 some odd years of being around, working on, and owning practically every type of truck and engine. My experience has been the pre egr era 12.7 is the cheapest over the serviceable life expectancy. The great fuel mileage is just a nice bonus to going a million miles and never having to open her up. And that experience has been similar to the different engines my buddies have run. Example: a platinum cat overhaul is just under 30 grand. For 16k i can buy a brand new short block 12.7. Another 2500 gives me a new head and turbo. Another 1500 gives me six new injectors. So for 10k less, i got a brand spanking new engine. Now realistically, i would just rebuild my block and save even more money. Cheap readily available parts, long nearly service free life, and extremely simple to work on. The golden Triangle of efficiency. Now if money is no object, get a cat. Nothing pulls better and sounds so good doing it than a well built kitty cat. But let's not kid ourselves, cats aint cheap to buy or service.

 

Nothing really I'm just thinking that once this one craps out on me it will be time for a change.

 

I would go with used new is not always better i hear on here a lot of guys having problems with theit truck as soon as they buy it from the show room. A truck with alittle bit of miles to work out the Factory Gremlins is not a bad idea. I would buy a truck with around 200k miles on her. Have a good warranty and some shop money laying around. You should be good.

 

If I was in your position I would take a look at this.

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/threads/2003-pete.312959/#post-5190012

 

I think It's a good truck but if your going that old you might as well go 99 or earlier so you don't have to worry about EOBR 's.

 

Good luck finding a 99 or older taken care of as well as mtoo did that pete. The only reason he hasn't sold that truck yet is i just had a baby 7 months ago and just don't feel comfortable writing a 45k dollar check on a shiny toy when i got a perfectly good, if ugly, truck in the drive way.