10,000 engine hours

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Finally turned over 10,000 hours on my 05 Silverado. 228k miles and a ton of idling for AC and heat. It's been used as a land surveying truck since around 100k miles (before that it was the owners personal truck). It's been the best truck the company has owned, very infrequent repairs. The usual instrument cluster gauges failing (I use torque pro on my old phone so I have all I need until the fuel gauge fails).
 

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So basically a 23mph average over the life of the vehicle. Not bad really. Based on my dash readout I'm usually averaging 25mph over the course of a normal fuel tank use. That's with little to no idling, just lots of in town driving.
 
My 2005 5.3 just rolled over 231,000 miles. Mine is showing only 2,800 hours but it might have been reset at some point, but I don’t do much idling at all. My instrument panel stopped working a few years ago and I took it to a local speedometer shop and they replaced all the stepper motors for $200 and it has worked like new since.
 
I wouldn't say its had a ton of idling... had one of my F150 fleet loaners last summer enter our use with nearly 5000 hours of run time, 40,000 miles, on a 4 year old truck...
 
Finally turned over 10,000 hours on my 05 Silverado. 228k miles and a ton of idling for AC and heat. It's been used as a land surveying truck since around 100k miles (before that it was the owners personal truck). It's been the best truck the company has owned, very infrequent repairs. The usual instrument cluster gauges failing (I use torque pro on my old phone so I have all I need until the fuel gauge fails).
What is your oci and what oil is used? Any oil usage during the normal oci?
 
So basically a 23mph average over the life of the vehicle. Not bad really. Based on my dash readout I'm usually averaging 25mph over the course of a normal fuel tank use. That's with little to no idling, just lots of in town driving.
This one is a mix of idle time, driving at low speed through fields or construction areas, and high speed 70mph on the freeway and 50-60mph on country roads. Basically a mix of all types of driving.
 
What is your oci and what oil is used? Any oil usage during the normal oci?
Originally it was conventional following the olm (likely to zero every time) and then 3-4k mile conventional oil changes. The PCV in the drivers valve cover plugged up causing smoke on startup sometimes until I installed a catch can which filled in a day. At that point it used a qt in 2500 miles or less. I replaced the valve cover now it's uses half a qt in 5k miles and I can empty the catch can when I change the oil.

I use m1 0w40 now, running it down to 30% on the olm (about 4k miles) the first few changes since I replaced the valve cover, trying to slowly clean out any remaining sludge. The last oil change I went to about 6k miles and 5% oil life. The oil still looked pretty good.
 
I wouldn't say its had a ton of idling... had one of my F150 fleet loaners last summer enter our use with nearly 5000 hours of run time, 40,000 miles, on a 4 year old truck...
It used to get a lot more. Since I now own it and get paid mileage to run it I don't idle it like previous drivers did. It had 6000 hours first time I looked at the hour meter years ago.
 
So basically a 23mph average over the life of the vehicle. Not bad really. Based on my dash readout I'm usually averaging 25mph over the course of a normal fuel tank use. That's with little to no idling, just lots of in town driving.
I used to get about 30mph average, mix of around town and some longer trips on interstates that were time enough stop and go traffic.
 
When I worked in Parks the record I saw was a liquid cooled Kawasaki powered cushman with over 25000 hours before it didn’t have enough compression to push itself around. 10,000 hours was common.
 
Finally turned over 10,000 hours on my 05 Silverado. 228k miles and a ton of idling
Not sure if that's good or bad as my 2015 Explorer had that many hours with much less miles. (Disclaimer: I didn't put those hours on the vehicle myself nor am I claiming to. Some people got upset when I noted how many miles I had on a different high mileage truck I mentioned in another thread.)

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Not sure if that's good or bad as my 2015 Explorer had that many hours with much less miles. (Disclaimer: I didn't put those hours on the vehicle myself nor am I claiming to. Some people got upset when I noted how many miles I had on a different high mileage truck I mentioned in another thread.)

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Your also showing only idle hours. My current engine hours is 11049.3 but that is total including driving. I assume your explorer was a police vehicle? That would be a ton of total hours.
 

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