Just looked at mine today. I believe its around 2400. 83K on the truck. Not sure if this is high in comparision to the miles

 

Thats an average of 34.5 MPH so that a fairly averave number. My uncles dodge averaged somthing like 25mph, which is very low, while my dads dodge averaved 40 somthing, which is rather high.

OTR trucks usually average somewhere around 50mph if that gives some perspective.

 

I dont even know how too check.

 

you do a system check with the buttons next to the dash. Press setup then reset i think

 

Could you clarify that a bit? I just press setup then reset and my hrs pop up? And what else can I get out of a systems check?

 

When you press setup it will tell you to press reset for system check. Press reset and it displays what it is checking and will show you engine hours also.

 

"Hold reset for system check" is what it says. Just checked mine.............83609 miles, 1903 hours for an average of 43.93 MPH

 

hhmmm...when i get mine back from the shop i will have to check, havent thought to check since i bought it

 

138,xxx km 2774 hrs

 

43,666km and 1322 engine hours.

 

just checked it..65k miles at 2230 hours

 

I think the real purpose of this, isn't to find out the average MPH that your truck has been ran at during it's lifetime... it's to give you a figure, that lets you know if your truck has been on the road running or spent more time idleing.

This is very important for 6.0 owners, because when you're buying a used truck - if you take the total number of hours the engine has on it and divide that into the total number of miles that are on the truck, it'll tell you if the truck has been idled more than driven - something that's good to know regarding the variable geometry turbo vanes. Higher idling means more soot build up on the turbo.

If your calculated figure is less than 30, then that means either A) The truck has been driven less than 30mph for the majority of it's life (highly unlikely) or B) The truck has spent more time idleing than on the road.

That's how I understand it anyway....

 

:agree: .

 

Mine has 28000 miles and 1046hrs. I write my hrs. down I write the oil change info.

 

Just checked it 3524 hours with 101k miles
Sound about right?

 

61028 miles with 2105 hours... Good, bad, or average?

im guessing that is about average, 28.991 average mph

mine is 28.895

 

So... Regardless of miles, you want as low as hours as possible right? But if you have high mileage and moderate hours, that's good too?

 

I checked before I bought my 08. Avg speed on it over the course of 108k miles was 41mph, so I knew it hadn't been idled to death

 

61028 miles with 2105 hours... Good, bad, or average?

 

Engine craped at 115k cracked piston but had a little over 7700 hours on it, I bought it new.

 

Just saw this thread and thought it was interesting (makes me wish my 04 had a simple way to check the engine hours). Anyways, we just sold one of our 2005 F350 6.0L feed trucks this spring. Truck had 179,000 miles on it and distinctly remember checking the engine hours on it when I serviced it before we put it on the market. It had 10,001 hours on the engine. Now, granted, this truck did spend alot of time idling checking and feeding cattle and such. AND it was running poorly cold when we decided to sell it. Had the dealership check it over and they said, supposedly, it was only firing on the 4 driver's side injectors properly. When it would warm up, it ran like a scalded dog. And the guy that drove it from day one was... to say the least, rough on it. He would drive it until, "My truck no work." hint hint... That poor thing had the guts drove out of it. Oil changed whenever he thought about it. Dented, dinged, scraped, scratched, etc. Truck was mangled when we finally sold it. Got $7,500 out of it which was basically because it had a decent bale bed on it. Even gave the guy the shop ticket showing all the injector work it would be requiring before winter, since they assured us with the 4 bad injectors, it would NOT be starting once it cooled back off.

SO... My point is, that truck had over 10k hours on it. HARD hours. And essentially, it was still a solid truck! It needed injectors, but they were fine warm. The front end could have used some freshening, but that's not engine related. It was that truck there, that really made me feel good about the 6.0L durability. It never burned oil, it never had EGR problems, no head gasket problems, no major 6.0L problems. If it quit, it was usually something minor due to operator error it seemed like. But that happens when the operator isn't able to read the English written in the manual....It just suffered a slow and painful 6 year decline, but still went to work until the day we pulled it from the fleet. That's a :ford: truck right there. 10,000+ hours on the clock, and still ticking.

 

That's a :ford: truck right there. 10,000+ hours on the clock, and still ticking.

no, that's a non-dpf equipped diesel...

a stock 6.4 would have ate itself to death with all that idling.

buddy of mine got a 6.4 when they very first came out. Ford has put four engines in it (200k extended warranty) He idles it all day

 

2735 hours 95,891miles. Comes out to like 35.xx mph

 

1456 hours and 61,046 miles. I don't do a bunch of idling.

 

The rule of thumb in the big truck industry is to multiply the engine hours by 40 for an estimated mileage reading. In other words, 10,000 hours would come out to an estimated 400,000 miles of wear on the engine.

It's nice that the light duty automotive world is finally starting to keep track of this. Big trucks have done this for years. Hours are even used for warranty claims. You can be under in miles on your warranty but if your over in hours then your done.

I see this a lot on trucks like utility/boom trucks and service trucks. Usually the miles will be real low but the hours will be two to three times what a normal truck would have.

 

5850 hours, 227k miles. I don't think mine was idled much. (just bought it last week). I'm glad mine has this capability, because as justinmix said, miles and hours can be all over the place.

 

5600 hrs 190k miles, awesome

 

I saw a 6.4 ambulance (has the super dutyduty cab.)the last few times I've been to this store I deliver to. Just idling away :-(