Hey everybody. About two weeks ago I joined the Diesel club. Picked up a 2010 F 250 Lariat FX4. I had searched around for a while and found that one that I wanted which had only 25k on the clock. Now to the question of the day.
About a week ago, I was going over the service intervals for the truck, pulled the Oasis report to figure out what had been done maintanence wise and was surprised a bit when I pulled the hours the truck had on it...5117 hours. Wow, that is a crap ton of hours based off mileage. So the question I have is, do I treat the truck as a 25k truck or a 150k truck which is really what it is based off the theory; every 1 hour of idle time equates to approx 30 miles of driving?
My concerns lie in the fact that most people perfom maintanence based off of miles, not hours.
Given that the recommended service interval for this truck, due to the DFP, is every 5k for oil and fuel filters. If you do the math based off of miles, oil/filter & fuel filter should have been changed 5 times. Based off of hours it should have been changed 25 times.
Cause for concern?
About a week ago, I was going over the service intervals for the truck, pulled the Oasis report to figure out what had been done maintanence wise and was surprised a bit when I pulled the hours the truck had on it...5117 hours. Wow, that is a crap ton of hours based off mileage. So the question I have is, do I treat the truck as a 25k truck or a 150k truck which is really what it is based off the theory; every 1 hour of idle time equates to approx 30 miles of driving?
My concerns lie in the fact that most people perfom maintanence based off of miles, not hours.
Given that the recommended service interval for this truck, due to the DFP, is every 5k for oil and fuel filters. If you do the math based off of miles, oil/filter & fuel filter should have been changed 5 times. Based off of hours it should have been changed 25 times.
Cause for concern?