Typical hours on engine?

[alwaysFlOoReD]

My new to me 2006 dodge ram 1500 has the running hours on the odometer. 4400 hours at 200,000 km (124,000 miles). Is that a normal amount of hours for that mileage?

 

[sgtsandman]

I've never had a Hobbs meter installed on any of my vehicles, so I have no idea.

 

[Dirtman]

200,000km divided by 4,400 hours = 45kph. So yea sounds normal to me. When you factor in idle time, it was probably a healthy mix of highway/city miles.

 

[Dirtman]

My truck has 70,000 miles but probably the same amount of hours on it.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

I worked for a company doing concrete testing. A LOT of idle time....
On the engine.
Not me screwing around...no matter how much it looked like I was sleeping.

 

[PetroleumJunkie412]

The Wireline (oilfield blasting) credo literally is "poppin' caps and takin' naps"

Most of my work trucks have an inordinate amount of idle time on them, so 4000+ seems reasonable to me.

 

[Curious Hound]

Interesting point. For those of us with 4x4's that don't get driven a lot and spend a lot of time slowly crawling trails and idling, maybe an hour meter would be a better basis for maintenance as opposed to miles or months.

 

[Dirtman]

Interesting point. For those of us with 4x4's that don't get driven a lot and spend a lot of time slowly crawling trails and idling, maybe an hour meter would be a better basis for maintenance as opposed to miles or months.

This is why I do maintenance based on time and dont pay much attention to miles. My last oil change on the ranger was just under 3k miles but it was almost a year. I rarely wear the tread out on tires either, they just get old and start dry rotting.

 

[Snoranger]

This is from a county government vehicle, so it’s worse then a company owned vehicle, which would be way worse then a privately owned vehicle.
IIRC This is a 2017 f250.

 

[Curious Hound]

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This is from a county government vehicle, so it’s worse then a company owned vehicle, which would be way worse then a privately owned vehicle.
IIRC This is a 2017 f250.

Wow!

 

[Dirtman]

That's alot of naps...

 

[sgtsandman]

I do my preventative maintenance based on time as well. Oil changes and whatever is on the check lists from the owner's manual every spring and fall. I do record the mileage when I write down the date when it was done but I rarely bother to calculate how many miles that has been. Every April and October.

Just out of curiosity, I just checked. Last April was 3,969 miles and October 5,044 miles for the 2011 and 5,906 miles on the 2019 in November since I bought in June. Some of that has been drives across the State for SAR training and the girlfriend taking the 2019 to Florida to visit her sister while I was deployed. So, a bit early on the mileage side but it gives me a chance to look everything over real well after the winter brine bath and before the winter brine bath.

 

[Snoranger]

Wow!

That’s not bad... 8hrs a day x 5 days a week x 52 weeks x 2 years (the truck was just over 2 years old when I took the pic) = 4160 hrs.
Its a supervisors truck, he gets 4 weeks vacation a year... 4weeks x 40 hrs x 2 years is 320hrs.
4160 - 320 = 3840hrs. He basically starts the truck every morning and doesn’t shut it off all day!

 

[Dirtman]

Imagine the fuel savings if they gave that supervisor a desk instead of a truck...

 

[Snoranger]

Imagine the fuel savings if they gave that supervisor a desk instead of a truck...

Every road supervisor has an assigned area of county roads they cover. They have to inspect their area everyday. Which means they drive quite a few miles a day... this is normal. The road dept supervisor trucks usually have a 4-5 year lifespan.