New truck compared to old truck.

My brother bought a 2010 Ford F150 this weekend with the 5.4L. It is a sharp truck but it has high miles (113,000). About 3,767 miles per month.

Anyway it raised the thought. What would be more desirable? A 2000 Ford F150 with 113,000 miles on it (753 miles/month) or a 2010 Ford F150 with 113,000 miles on it?

What is harder on a truck? Time or miles. I am leaning towards time being the worst.

113,000 miles is only high miles to the dealership you want to trade it into or the insurance company. Today’s trucks are built to go 200,000 miles in my opinion with regular oil changes.

I’d take the 2010 any day over the 2000.

I wouldn’t trade my 280,000 mile Vue in on either.

I would probably take the 2010 for safety features. Having said that, we have a 2003 with 128,000 miles and a 2004 with 86,000 miles. I consider these low mileage vehicles and most importantly, I know how they have been maintained for majority of those miles.

FDR

It seems like some vehicles get an easy 100k and some a much harder version. I’ve seen some discussion of some low mileage toys rustin apart even though they don’t get any miles. It all depends. One thing that does bother me though is when the vehicle gets old enough the titles don’t track the miles anymore, at least where I live. I’ve seen it a couple of times in a forum. A guy buys this 10 year old 10k mile car and then runs a carfax or whatever on it later and finds out the last time it was serviced there was 199k miles on it.

I just traded a 99 f150 that had 230,000 miles on it and still going so I would think one 11 years newer should be able to do even better. I agree 100,000 miles is nothing for a truck these days. I would go with the 10 because it shouldn’t be rusted to much. Its easier to fix a part thats not rusty than it is a rusted one.

It’s like anything else it will matter how it was maintained. I have seen 2 exact trucks (make,model,year) with the same miles and one of them is worth twice what the other truck is worth. Some people just don’t care what their truck looks like or how its maintained mechanically. That said usually if the person cares enough to keep it washed and waxed on the outside he usually maintains the mechanical stuff. My 2 cents.

I have a 2006 with 260,000 on it stick couple thousand in it every year but its paid for and don’t have those high monthly payments

I think we are getting away from the premise of the question.

Assuming all other things are equal (maintenance, drive style, etc). What do you think is harder on a vehicle. Time or Miles?

Time is definitely harder IMHO

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I think we are getting away from the premise of the question.

Assuming all other things are equal (maintenance, drive style, etc). What do you think is harder on a vehicle. Time or Miles?

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Well in your scenario, the miles are mute & time is friendly to no vehicle… until they turn collector

For the money, the older truck may be more resonably priced and allow quite a bit of ca$h for repairs, where the new one, not so much. It is question that has to be answered by each buyer, not a universal answer. If I had to answer, I would say miles at first, but at some time, the tipping point is reached and it is then time, because of constant advancements in vehicles.

Vehicles built nowdays are soooooooo much better. Even my mid 1990s vehicles were easily capeable of 200,000 miles. This was almost unheard of back in the day unless you were into engine overhauls and could do other major work yourself.

Currently I’m running a 2002 Olds Bravada with 190,000 miles. It does consume about a half quart of oil every 5000 miles, but other than that it runs like a watch. I just did the water pump and alternator simply because both were original and I felt I was on borrowed time.

Other than that, it’s just replacing wear parts like brakes, tires, etc that every vehicle uses.

I think time sitting is far worse than regular use.

Grouse

Salt & Time = rotten truck

300,000 + on the Duramax and its just getting broken in (less a couple injector replacements)

This 2000 Ford F-150 HD edition has 118,000 miles, is used for fun stuff and hauling tuffy… Since I’ve started doing all my own maintenence, Been a beast for the last 3 years… I bought it used in 06… very beat on… Now is running great…
I agree Salt kills… This truck has not seen winter in 6 years… underneath looks pretty good… compared to others…
If your good with the wrench, I’d go older…
If you want to pay lots to a “Steelership” go newer…