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Denny Dawes (not verified)    March 30, 2025 - 12:43PM

After my sons 100,000 mile high school GMC pickup ran him through college and beyond - to over 250,000 miles, My retirement plan was to buy low milage GMC/Chevy pickups. I ended up with 4, two 1500s and a Tahoe with 5.3s and a 2500 with with a 6.0. All purchased for less than $15K (add that up) and all with less than 80K miles.

My wife uses hers to pull a vintage camp trailer all over the NW and has put on around 40K miles. I do the same with mine and even made a trip to the Arctic Ocean with it and a beefed up vintage trailer. The others get some local running but have not eclipsed 80K miles yet after 4 years.

We take good care of them with tyranny flushes and oil changes. Have added a starter and alternator to mine ( mostly out of concern traveling in remote areas)

The thing that nice. We live 30 miles from a dealer so our local repair guys can handle most of the minor things without waiting in line and several trips to the dealer.
I think we're set for 10-20 years of running...after that they may take my drivers license away anyway

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