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I'm moving back to NY (live in NC) and my daily driver in NY will be a company vehicle. I'm looking for a southern truck to drive around come winter. I might also look into doing a little residential plowing since I will be laid off in the winter. I want it to at least be an option. I'm looking at a 2011 2500HD 6.0 crew cab long box tomorrow. It does have 160k miles, one owner southern truck. What should I be on the lookout for? I assume these trucks are pretty solid to 200k miles. Only driving it winters and weekends I will probably put 5k miles on it per year, a little more if I get into plowing. This allows me to get a higher mileage truck, but is 160k a little too much for one of these trucks? How are their front ends? will I be replacing a lot even if the truck was well taken care of?

 

They traded it in at a Ford dealer...what does that say? ;)

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dash cracks, especially pass side by the airbags

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I'm moving back to NY (live in NC) and my daily driver in NY will be a company vehicle. I'm looking for a southern truck to drive around come winter. I might also look into doing a little residential plowing since I will be laid off in the winter. I want it to at least be an option. I'm looking at a 2011 2500HD 6.0 crew cab long box tomorrow. It does have 160k miles, one owner southern truck. What should I be on the lookout for? I assume these trucks are pretty solid to 200k miles. Only driving it winters and weekends I will probably put 5k miles on it per year, a little more if I get into plowing. This allows me to get a higher mileage truck, but is 160k a little too much for one of these trucks? How are their front ends? will I be replacing a lot even if the truck was well taken care of?

 

They traded it in at a Ford dealer...what does that say? ;)

 

There great trucks as long as there cheap! You might want to look at earlier models like a 2007 or 2008 with alittle less miles or even 1999-2006 trucks that are really cheap.

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