No real experience with the newer ones but do know someone who has about a half million miles on a 1983 Chevy 2500 2 wheel drive pickup with the diesel. He finally blew the transmission and decided it was not worth the cost of a tranny rebuild and parked it.
He is an aircraft mechanic. He acquired it with about 375K miles on it from a country vet who had purchased it new so I guess it probably had a lot of highway miles and probably not too heavily loaded much of the time - although it may have pulled a stock trailer some of the time - not sure. He said it would routinely do about 22 mpg on the highway. Randy -----Original Message----- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com]on Behalf Of Kevin Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 11:45 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] O/T Hi mileage Duramax Kaleb will tell you those things are better than electricity. To be honest, I haven't seen one of those in heavy use out here, or with anything resembling high mileage. Think by 04 the injector problems were mostly gone, but am not positive about that. Personally, I do not care for them. On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 04:43:33PM -0400, Peter T. Arnold wrote: > I'm looking very hard at a 2004 Duramax/Allison. Any chance of this > being a long life set-up? Aluminum head scare me a little. Truck has > received proper service, looks very sweet. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
