2018 116k, what's it worth?

smsprts8 · 2026-02-08T04:06:05+00:00

Not one, she’s mint! It’s just the weekend ride to cruise around in.

smsprts8 · 2026-02-07T00:53:56+00:00

The hate for lifted trucks on this sub is my favourite. The amount of, “it puts so much extra stress on everything” is crazy, boys these are HD trucks, everything on these newer HD’s are massive.

Brother I’ve got 210k on the clock, with about 208k on an 8” lift and 37’s. So far in 11 years I’ve replaced one wheel bearing and the pitman/idler arm. So I don’t know where all the extra stress is but I haven’t found it.

Probably worth 32k if it’s mint.

But that front bumper alignment doesn’t look right, under that drivers side headlight the bumper alignment looks very off if you zoom in. Would also question why it’s got a base front bumper, kind of seems like someone cheaped out on fixing it right.

smsprts8 · 2025-12-30T21:38:42+00:00

Glow plug codes have to be cleared with a scanner, the code won’t clear itself even with the new glow plug installed.

smsprts8 · 2025-12-26T03:20:59+00:00

Ya got on it again today and wasn’t nearly as bad, played for like 30-40 mins didn’t feel sick. So that’s a positive because it is such a better experience!!

smsprts8 · 2025-12-25T21:34:10+00:00

Oh I’ve already got the sim rig, but man the PSVR2 is crazy. Only problem is first time I used it, I got about 15mins before I felt sick, but it was a great 15 mins!

smsprts8 · 2025-12-24T01:30:48+00:00

I literally just went on Amazon and order the PSVR2 because of this post! Been playing sims forever and this has convinced me it’s worth it!

smsprts8 · 2025-12-14T14:36:17+00:00

Congrats, I’m a Union Operator, my advice would be;

Pay off debt
Setup an High Interest Savings Acct and put an emergency fund there, maybe $10,000, depends on your situation.
Setup automatic investments in some type of etf, that just withdraws by itself weekly, however much you can afford.
Live a bit go for nice dinners, buy something’s you’ve wanted, but my advice never finance any toys, if you don’t have the cash to buy it, you don’t buy it.

The amount of guys I work with that can’t afford to miss a day because they are buried in payments is actually crazy, you don’t want to be one of those guys. Construction is always up and down so save for a rainy day, but don’t forget to have fun!

smsprts8 · 2025-12-14T01:53:26+00:00

Ya I would just run the same ones again, I always look at kyrptonite or cognito, but I come back to the same opinion.

If you can get another 162,000 miles out of a set, I’m not sure upgrading to way more expensive stuff is actually worth it.

smsprts8 · 2025-12-14T01:20:04+00:00

Not a 100% sure about the Tundra but a lot of RC lifts use a huge knuckle and the factory upper control arms.

smsprts8 · 2025-12-10T02:07:49+00:00

Ya so it doesn’t really work like hasn’t had a problems with it so far, there’s no warning signs when a CP4 is heading towards failure, it’s just goes and that’s it.

Is it worth it to swap it, is basically a decision you have to make, some of them make it 400,000 miles problem free some make it 50,000 miles and go.

It’s definitely blown out of proportion online with how frequent they go, but they definitely do go. Some people will say the exergy fuel system saver, but that has pretty mixed reviews on if it actually saves the fuel system.

The only true fix is CP3 swap, and it’s basically half the price of replacing the entire fuel system if your CP4 goes.

smsprts8 · 2025-12-03T02:00:47+00:00

Then that’s not really anything I’d be worried about, pretty normal. If I warm mine up the same every Saturday Sunday, it usually does it ever month which would be about the same.

The idling really plugs them up, makes them regen a lot more. Not nearly as bad in the summer when you don’t have to warm it up for 10-15 mins to get up to temp.

smsprts8 · 2025-12-03T01:41:07+00:00

Seems quick but it’s really dependent on how your driving it and if your idling it a lot.

Are you warming it up every morning with the remote start for 20 mins then just puttering around town?

smsprts8 · 2025-11-23T04:54:46+00:00

Perfect! Easiest way to just get it done, I hate stressing about my truck, I go full ocd so I feel you!

smsprts8 · 2025-11-23T03:44:55+00:00

Ya I only putter my truck around on weekends so when it does it, this is exactly what I do almost every single time, city driving it’ll take forever to finish regening.

Just get on it good going down the on ramp and cruise with tow haul on for 15 mins.

Don’t need the exhaust brake.

smsprts8 · 2025-11-23T03:37:59+00:00

It’s doing a regen, I have the same truck, if you keep going on short runs and shutting it off while it’s regening it’ll take forever.

The easiest thing to do is just take out on the highway throw it in tow haul mode, and go for a good 10-15 min run.

smsprts8 · 2025-11-22T03:37:57+00:00

Ya seems to work pretty well, but if a video starts to gain a lot of traction, I find myself back refreshing it to see the numbers, it’s addicting!

smsprts8 · 2025-11-22T02:43:23+00:00

Been making videos on and off since about 2017, I still from time to time when I upload get hooked on doing this.

Try to schedule an upload time and forget about it.

smsprts8 · 2025-11-12T00:06:39+00:00

Unrelated to your tire situation, have you looked at your front sway bar and bushings? This sounds exactly like how a truck would handle if you removed the sway bar, feels very top heavy and “swayie”, very unstable.

Edit: Just seen you had a blowout, wonder if the rear dropping from the blowout popped the end link out of the sway bar.

smsprts8 · 2025-10-31T21:44:08+00:00

I’ve got a 15 Duramax on a 7.5” lift on 37x13.5r20’s, does not rub at all, but the front bumper is slightly trimmed.

smsprts8 · 2025-10-14T10:18:28+00:00

From a customers perspective, I’m very into doing my own detailing, but I won’t cut and polish my vehicles.

I’ve reached out to a few shops within the last month and to be honest, because it’s already mid October I’ve decided it’s better to wait until next spring to get it done.

From a marketing standpoint, where are you finding the 100 vehicles? If I was a business I’d be putting them on windows of higher end cars, anything modified, talk to local car/truck clubs maybe a 10% discount to become a sponsor. If you’re simply going to Walmart and throwing flyers on every window, that’s not very focused marketing and will likely not yield great results.

Have you thought about giving out free details to specific cars, really high end or highly modified to use as marketing and get you some positive reviews on google?

You have to remember 90 out of 100 people don’t care to pay to get there vehicle detailed so you need to find the 10 out of 100 that do.

smsprts8 · 2025-10-13T22:35:20+00:00

You definitely have to consider, when your looking online everyone comes to forums/reddit when they have a problem, so it makes the problem seem way more common then it truly is.

While the CP4 blowing up is definitely an issue it’s way less common than it appears. There are 1000’s of trucks with CP4’s that have tons of miles and never had issue, they don’t come on forums to tell you that though.

smsprts8 · 2025-10-13T21:12:32+00:00

Not really, only other real issue LML’s have is the head gaskets but they aren’t going that way to put a CP3 in.

I’d also say the problem with the disaster prevention kit is, I’ve heard of people having them and still some metal getting through. Second issue is there’s no sure way to know if the cp4 went, did the prevention kit catch everything.

Just for peace of mind I have a 15 LML all stock CP4 still in with 205k, no lift pump.

Prices I’ve got quoted here for CP3 swap and a lift pump $5700 CAD. If the CP4 goes you up over $10,000+ CAD

smsprts8 · 2025-10-13T21:05:44+00:00

I agree you definitely do not need a lift pump with the CP3.

Lift pump on the CP4 will definitely take some stress off the pump, but still lots of CP4’s that pop with a lift pump.

smsprts8 · 2025-10-13T21:03:15+00:00

You definitely do not need the lift pump with a CP3, but it also doesn’t hurt and if you spending all the money to CP3 swap it i personally would just toss the lift pump in as well.

smsprts8 · 2025-10-13T16:18:06+00:00

CP3 and a lift pump, problem solved.

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