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Could use some advice on a possible purchase of a 2000 dodge diesel dually 4x4, we are living on the island of Maui and are looking at buying this truck to ship over to california and drive to our home state of Wisconsin. The truck has 75,000 miles on it and is cosmetically in good shape, it has a automatic transmission, the undercarriage is really clean with no leaks. When we were test driving it today the overhead gauge read 10.5 mpg, is this normal or is it possible to get better fuel economy? Also can a good diesel shop test a truck for anything that may be a problem in the future as far as a injection pump, lift pump, transmission, that may be a dumb question but I am not mechanical at all and just want to make sure I do as much prepurchase inspection as possible to insure a good truck without to many future problems. The maintanence on this truck has been done as far as oil changes and a transmission service a year ago, but that is all the current owner has done, he has owned the truck for four years and not sure of service records of previous owner. I have read automatic transmission can be troublesome, not sure if there is any truth to this. Any and all advice is very much appreciated. Also this truck has always been on this island which means it has never seen a freeway, and never ran for more than a hour at a time, not sure if this is good or bad. Thank you in advance
Could use some advice on a possible purchase of a 2000 dodge diesel dually 4x4, we are living on the island of Maui and are looking at buying this truck to ship over to california and drive to our home state of Wisconsin. The truck has 75,000 miles on it and is cosmetically in good shape, it has a automatic transmission, the undercarriage is really clean with no leaks. When we were test driving it today the overhead gauge read 10.5 mpg, is this normal or is it possible to get better fuel economy? Also can a good diesel shop test a truck for anything that may be a problem in the future as far as a injection pump, lift pump, transmission, that may be a dumb question but I am not mechanical at all and just want to make sure I do as much prepurchase inspection as possible to insure a good truck without to many future problems. The maintanence on this truck has been done as far as oil changes and a transmission service a year ago, but that is all the current owner has done, he has owned the truck for four years and not sure of service records of previous owner. I have read automatic transmission can be troublesome, not sure if there is any truth to this. Any and all advice is very much appreciated. Also this truck has always been on this island which means it has never seen a freeway, and never ran for more than a hour at a time, not sure if this is good or bad. Thank you in advance