FINOCJ previously posted:
"I wouldn't say trail miles are necessarily bad...especially for an engine. Most of my trail miles are at low rpm at low speed and with minimal load on the engine due to gearing. Most people's trail rigs don't actually get that many trail miles. For every ten trail miles I put on mine, it gets a 100 plus just getting to the trail and back on highway, and most trail rigs aren't used in stop and go traffic, pulling trailers etc. Additionally, I think high speed pavement cruising in our pothole filled streets is much worse on a lot of the components in terms of hard hits and fatigue than slow motion flex. Of course, we do get in trouble breaking stuff off road, but its normally when the skinny pedal gets involved.
Some components do take some extra wear for the mileage, but for a vehicle of the same age with normal driving and amount of mileage, I don't think its much different. Besides, if buyer is thinking of using it as a trail rig, then that also changes the situation. What I would buy for a trail rig has different specs than if I wanted it for a DD."
i agree with this. I'll also add in that 100,000 miles isn't really low mileage. That's over 6k per year. That's more than my truck or my Jeep saw this year, and last, and probably the year before that. My wife's car on the other hand is about twice that, all in town stop and go.