Is there a list of things to go bad and the avg cost to repair

Everything breaks at different times, mileages and hours. Its all expensive if you dont know how to fix it yourself and even if you can, it still might be expensive.

 

I have done almost all the repairs on my truck and trailer over the last 3 years. 700k miles to a little over 950k miles now. It seems to keep me right at .24 cents per mile on average to maintain, upgrade repair my equipment.

I was hoping to keep the price down by doing most of the labor myself. I do try and fix everything even minor stuff.

But them are the facts.

 

Often what breaks at whatever mileage is a reflection on the maintenance and how good or bad the driver is.

I assume you're asking this so that you can have an idea with the maintenance or repair for a truck at a certain amount of miles will cost you.

The answer is that it's best if you buy a used truck if it has a laundry list of repairs that have recently been done and older repairs that you can see that the individual that had it maintained it.

With that being said, you should have around $20,000 for repairs. It's absolutely nothing to spend $10,000 on a used truck.

You can Dyno it you can have a mechanic check it but there always will be something that you did not see. And as you run the truck in the coming weeks and months there will be something that you could not see that will happen. Some are luckier with that some are less lucky with that.

And if you buy an emission truck that's a whole different story. That's like marrying a bad woman and wondering how many ways it's going to destroy your life.

Good luck.

 

Truckrunning dude, I will be blunt with you, if you amortize your components on the truck to prevent problems, it is a hard and expensive policy to have and takes a lot of discipline to maintain.

I never heard the average turbo lasting 500k, I had 1 million miles on trucks with original turbos, the same goes for the inframe, 750k is a meanless number, the dyno and blowby is what is really used and that could be a million or 450k.

 

Basically on the newer trucks, after 400-500k everything starts falling apart and everything is expensive to replace.
For example rebuild on the ISX is about $20-30k, turbo I heard people already pay upwards of $4k, e t.c , rebuilt transmission $5k, clutch $2k, if it's automatic and you start chasing electronic problems it's thousands and thousands.

 

Trucks are like finger prints or snow flakes (referring to the white ones that fall from the sky). No 2 are the same. So, the "list" you seek is not even remotely possible to compile.

 

Some turbos are 5k some are $900.

 

some are $700

Simple fact, trucks eat money, you just go with the average, problem is cost can be very high right after you purchase and then taper off, it will average out but you need the cash up front to ride it out.
You can’t start broke and save .25 a mile for repairs and expect to survive,.