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For years I drove fleet vehicles, mostly Chevy suburbans but we had Furd and Dudge in our survey section. I always had to go to Lansing Michigan to pickup my new vehicle as they all were delivered there for the agency to assign. I would bop in to the motor pool, hunt thru the 100's of new 'burban for my new plate number, then turn in my credit card, get the radio transferred and be on my way back to da UP in matter of a few hours. 4 miles on the clock, out of the motor pool, up the ramp on the x-way to merge at over 70mph and north to the Big Mac bridge only dropping below 70mph when traffic conditions called for it, then from the da Big Mac bridge all the way west another 290 miles for a total of over 500 miles in one day on a brand new K2500 burban. Never in 30 yrs did any engine problems occur. My last truck went 125,000 miles in 3+ yrs.
Matter of fact one Furd I brought back once was a F150 4x4 e. cab and it was loaded with survey gear and pulling a 4,000 lbs trailer and when I left there was only 25 miles on the vehicle. That truck was kept for about 6 yrs and 150,000 miles and the engine was in good shape when they sent it to the auction.
So all this babying I hear talked about here is just new car jitters and has little basis in reality. We never were allowed to change the oil before 5,000 miles and time did not play into it.
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