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Houndoc

Houndoc

Registered User
Location
Grantsville
I am starting to get a little nervous with the number of miles on my trucks.

My wife drives a 2004 Chevy 2500 crew cab Duramax. Has been very trouble free, but is sitting at about 345,000 miles

My 2002 Chevy 1500 extended cab has 215,000 miles, rising quickly as I commute in it from Grantsville to SLC. Also a great truck I love.

We are thinking of a few options, wanting to act before either vehicle dies. Since there are a number of folks here who work for dealerships, figured I might as well get word out and see what comes up.

We are open to a couple of different options:

1) buy different vehicle for my wife to drive (Subaru Outback or Tribeca, Ford Explorer, Nissan Xterra main ones on the list). Budget of up to about $8,500. The Duramax would then get parked and used only for towing.

2) sell/trade her truck, buy a "newer" Duramax. Goal would be the not spend more than $8,500 or so more than what we can get for her truck.

3) complete number one above (in that case also add Honda Element, Nissan Frontier to the list), then trade/sell both trucks and get a Duramax for about whatever $$ we have from the two.

So, anyone selling something that may fit, or may be interested in buying either truck, speak up!
 
broncomitch

broncomitch

dont be a sheep in a jeep
Location
west jordan,UT
Not if you get the 2.0 motor.

Witch I'm not sure if that motor comes in newer vehicles.
My 96 impreza has 245k on the clock with the original motor and trans.

But yeah, the 2.5 motors go through head gaskets pretty often.
also with the 03-07 explorer's with the v6, they have head gasket issue's also around the 100k mark and the transmission's are junk. They were built with economy in mind and used cheap parts inside and is just a flat out bad design (you can only check the fluid level with the drain plug on the bottom)
We had a 05 and was a good car and comfortable and safe..but the head gaskets went out and with the new style 4.0 it's cheaper and ALOT easier to get a new motor then to just replace the head gaskets.

We sold it and got a 09 Lincoln MKX which doesn't have very many issues from what I'm reading online and it's been an amazing car so far.
Just letting you know What to look out for with those.
 
thefirstzukman

thefirstzukman

Finding Utah
Supporting Member
Location
SPANISH FORK, UTAH
We sell a lot of Subaru's, factory head gaskets have problems but its a poor gasket design, fix it and they are fine. We replace every Subaru Belt and Water Pump on every one we sell regardless if it looks new or not, we replace a lot of Subaru head gaskets before we sell them also. I love Subaru, I just bought one for my son that got home off his Mission today, they are easy to work on, cheap to work on, have very few problems, if you build the engine yourself you can put in all new parts and have the machine work done for $1200. I can do a timing belt and water pump on any model in less than 1.5 hrs, non turbo engine swap in a few hours. The things are awesome, would recommend them to anyone.

Outback yes, Tribeca no, Its like the Subaru bastard child that should never have been. Check under all Subarus and look for rusty chassis parts, seems to be lots of east coast cars making it out here, stay away from them. I try to buy everything I can out of California, particularly poor runners that I can fix.
 
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