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Looking at 17 ram 2500 diesel with high idle hours

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Hi I’m looking at a 17 ram 2500 slt diesel with 74,000 miles on it. The engine hours show 850 idle and 302 drive.

Carfax shows it was a rental at one point over here in Hawaii, sold after 15,000 miles and bought under a commercial owner and then sold at 60,000 miles and now for sale.

Thoughts on hours? I’ve read that they’re not very accurate. Appears to be in great shape overall
 
Well unless they were averaging 245mph the drive hours cant be right…… usually the hour meter is accurate but something seems fishy here I wonder if its a replacement gauge cluster
 
Does the total roll over after 1000 hours? Cause then it would be 57mph avg.

I thought I seen on another thread where it was a similar situation and they thought it rolled over
 
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Does the total roll over after 1000 hours? Cause then it would be 57mph avg.

I thought I seen on another thread where it was a similar situation and they thought it rolled over
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It resets but from a quick refesher I see guys had issues with 17-18 trucks resetting randomly around 1000ish hrs. So if that truck is 1200-1300hrs drive to that much idle that is a little excessive but if its 2302 32mph avg thats reasonable, still a bit high but better. I would ask the seller if its a dealer to hook it up to a scanner that can get the actual hrs off the BCM
 
Ok I’ll see if they can read it for me.

Also I’ve attached some pictures of the suspension. I can tell there’s a lift on front but not sure if it’s just a leveling kit or if there’s a lift on back too. Any thoughts?image_0.jpegimage_1.jpeg
 
With the unknown hours and being a previous rental, is there anything in particular to look for or is it not a truck worth entertaining?

Was looking at late model 4th gen’s because sounds like 2019 and newer has some issues that need to get worked out

Currently have an 09 2500 with 175k miles, there’s not a lot of options here in Hawaii without shipping something in.
 
Depending on drive hours I would not be too worried about that truck really
 
The standard EVIC was known to reset the drive hours to 0 every 1092 hours in that era.
 
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