I bought it new when they had the friends and family sale in 05, a Chevy with a duramax/allison it has 225,000 miles on it now. Replaced the water pump, one front hub, 2 glow plugs, the glow plug control and the batteries twice, that's it. What i still have not had to replace are the brakes, still on the original pads and they are over half a pad left all the way around, I bought them and went to do the brake job figuring it should be close, not even. It has no DEF. The buttons on the radio are wearing out, you can't turn the radio off any more (just turn it down) the driver seat is cracking on the side. I went all out on the leather seats with butt warmers (best thing since sliced bread) good for an achy back at the end of the day.
I pull A stock trailer, camp trailer, boat, and occasionally haul hay, skidsteer or miny X with a flat bed trailer, drive it for work all over the lower part of the state.
It drives like a truck but not like a buckboard, I'll keep it till it wears out.
I won't get into the Ford, Chevy, Dodge mess, because they all have their plusses and minuses, I will say Ford needs to get things figured out on their heavy duties (The Diesel) we ran nothing but 450s and 550s in our fleet at work for years, the last 5 trucks to come in have been Dodges, to many trips to the shop for the Fords.
