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  1. 11-26-2008 01:20 PM #1
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    What do you think is an acceptable idle time % on a used truck?

    I am looking for opinions, I have a truck in mind for trade.

    I think the lifetime idle time is too much at 52%

    What do you think?
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    Sounds like to me that this truck you are looking into sat about half as much as it ran.

    That sounds like a lot of idling to me.


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    Yes, the truck had 17,000 hrs & it had about 8600 hrs idle time. More then half. It will come with the 2 year/200,000 mile warranty.

    I am trying to decide if it realy matters that much. It's an 04, C-15 with a little less than 500,000 miles on it. Same as what my truck has. But mine is a day cab and I need a truck with a sleeper.

    This dealer is giving me terms that are hard to refuse. He has a few buyers in mind already for my truck and is giving me full value plus some on my truck.
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    My truck always had high idle time because I had to idle to run the hydraulic pump. I dont remember the exact number it was high.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sidman82 View Post
    Yes, the truck had 17,000 hrs & it had about 8600 hrs idle time. More then half. It will come with the 2 year/200,000 mile warranty.

    I am trying to decide if it realy matters that much. It's an 04, C-15 with a little less than 500,000 miles on it. Same as what my truck has. But mine is a day cab and I need a truck with a sleeper.

    This dealer is giving me terms that are hard to refuse. He has a few buyers in mind already for my truck and is giving me full value plus some on my truck.
    From what I've read, idling today is a lot less of an issue than it was before. The engines today are designed to adjust to the changes that idling causes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sidman82 View Post
    What do you think is an acceptable idle time % on a used truck?

    I am looking for opinions, I have a truck in mind for trade.

    I think the lifetime idle time is too much at 52%

    What do you think?

    Yes, that's excessive...
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