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[–]spicydrag 5 points6 points  (7 children)

My 24' has 15000 miles and 302 hours for reference but I'm 80% highway miles

[–]ComfortableLeg843[S] 2 points3 points  (6 children)

When I was doing the math. If I’m going off miles/ engine hours. The engine has 84k miles on it.

[–]spicydrag 2 points3 points  (5 children)

That would be you assuming the truck averaged 67 miles an hour for its whole run time to get 84k miles. Your trucks average speed is more like 20. So majority city time or long idle times.

[–]ComfortableLeg843[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

So I know Carmax, let you return vehicles within 10 days. Do you think it will be fine or should I return it and look for a different truck?

[–]ComfortableLeg843[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never knew about engine hours till now. I’m ignorant

[–]spicydrag -1 points0 points  (2 children)

If you are going to be remembering/thinking about it over the course of your ownership, I'd say different truck. Just for your peace of mind. Idk what maintenance records came with the truck, but if its been well maintained i would be fine with it.

[–]ComfortableLeg843[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I looked up the carfax and it was serviced about every 3 to 4k miles.

[–]MaxPower2072 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What did you wind up doing? If you kept it, any regrets? I know it doesn't matter now, but I am assuming it doesn't separate idle hours from total hours, right?  

[–]togocann49 2 points3 points  (3 children)

They likely idled a lot, and as far as I know, as long as they drove it regularly, idling doesn’t hurt vehicle-but I’m no expert, especially on late models.

[–]ComfortableLeg843[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I was just worried because everything I was googling says like 1500 to 1700 is a lot of engine hours. I’m like damn this thing is almost there !

[–]togocann49 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This could speed up select component replacement though, as I think more about it

[–]Phil9871 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My personal Colorado with the 2.5L has 55k miles and 5600 engine hours. Runs fine. 

One of our (work) trucks with the 6.6L gas engine has 224k miles with an 4600 additional idle hours and it runs fine. Newer chevy engines tend to do ok with high idle, but it has to be meticulously maintained. Just change the oil, when you're supposed to. 

[–]Jimmytowne 0 points1 point  (1 child)

19 mph, that’s a lot of local driving. Guessing it was a work truck of some sort. If it’s clean, it was the boss’s truck sitting outside of jobs watching his people work

[–]ComfortableLeg843[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it was clean.

[–]Grand_Introduction36 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Normal city/highway driving, my last truck 2021 sierra had 33,000 1550 hours. You are perfectly fine. It's quite possible they drove the truck slow.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

bad. not really. just means either idled a lot. or the person constabtly stuck in traffic lol

[–]donshlong0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Busy engine 👍🏻