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I hope the truck keeps a record of how much this was used. I wouldn't want to buy a used truck that nominally had 50,000 miles on it but also had another 5000 h
by ponker 6y ago
I hope the truck keeps a record of how much this was used. I wouldn't want to buy a used truck that nominally had 50,000 miles on it but also had another 5000 hours of generator duty on the engine without knowing about it.
- hed 6y agoEven my 20 year old GMC has an engine hour meter if you toggle the odometer. It's good to know this can be useful more than just figuring out your average speed in mph over the life of the vehicle.
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- jtbayly 6y agoThat was my thought exactly! Other equipment like this generally doesn't track miles but hours. Need to know both in this instance.
- floydnoel 6y agothat’s already standard on F150 trucks, even before a generator became available.
- robocat 6y agoHowever for engine life what you want to know is hours under heavy load and perhaps total revolutions. I thought that much of the wear on an engine is load related, and non-linear, such that hours idling at low revs is utterly different from high revs at high power. The odo reading is useful as an indication of wear on the drivetrain and suspension etcetera. Hours is useful on a tractor/truck/boat because the engine is normally under load for a majority of the hours.
- latchkey 6y agoAfter I moved to Vietnam, I learned pretty quickly that the numbers on ODO's, even digital ones, can be modified to whatever you want, for a few bucks.
- jedmeyers 6y agoUS has very strictly enforced laws against odometer tampering. "Major defendants in large odometer fraud prosecutions have received prison terms of up to seven years under current Sentencing Guidelines which do not permit parole. Sentences in the 18 month to three year range are common." https://www.justice.gov/civil/case/federal-odometer-tampering-statutes#:~:text=Major%20defendants%20in%20large%20odometer,three%20year%20range%20are%20common https://www.justice.gov/civil/case/federal-odometer-tamperin....
- tyingq 6y agoThings like Carfax discourage it as well. They have partnerships with oil change (and similar) services that record the mileage and date. Rolling back becomes obvious.
- fnord77 6y agogiven the number of odometer eeprom hacking tools sold on Ebay, it must be fairly widespread
- jedmeyers 6y agoNo one says it's not easy. Stealing mail is fairly easy too. Federal prison is not a fun place to be, though.
- jsmith12673 6y agoiirc you can still get the true mileage through an OBD connector right? Might not apply in Vietnam, but I think it might be the case in NA
- fnord77 6y ago
- syshum 6y agoAll ford trucks since at least 2015 come standard with a Hour meter on the display, probably even in the generation before that