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Have a Dodge Commons 2500 that has 240,000 miles and it’s still on the OG injectors. Recently bought about two weeks ago when I took it into a shop to have it kind of looked at and diagnosed. First thing that they noticed that had been overfilled on oil on a quart, which was not my doing.
There’s another AC fan code that was going off other than that. Everything looked all right. I have an ABS light for a left front tire module and a brake light that won’t go off.
The guy told me that he ran some pressure test and said that with the engine having to crank four times before starting, he’s having the fuel injectors were probably on its way out and wouldn’t recommend doing those soon. He said that in order to maintain make sure that the injectors last a while they recommend doing the entire fuel system which we is around a $5000. repair.
Don’t have the money to do that right now. I guess I’m just wondering if you guys have any advice it’s not blown any white smoke now so I know I could probably drive another while on the injectors it has now.
I got the truck for 7500 and its body is a little beat up, but ultimately it’s a pretty decent truck. Just unsure whether it’s worth doing the work myself doing it through the shop and spending $5000 or just flipping the truck and putting my money somewhere else.

Just bought this Cummins recently was checking out the coolant and it’s low and then also the inside doesn’t look amazing. I can’t tell if that is black shit on the inside of the coolant housing or if it’s on the outside the outside of it is pretty filthy, so I’m assuming that, but it definitely doesn’t look great in there. Is this normal? Obviously it needs a top off but I’m wondering if it needs a full flush

I had to look at this vehicle the other day as 240,000 miles. Just had the front and redone as well as a new transfer case has a lot of cosmetic issues but other than that seems to be driving just fine. Offered him $7500 cash and took it. Guy put in an upgraded tranny 80000 miles ago as well
Keep on getting people telling me that it’s a terrible deal and I shouldn’t pick up this truck with this much mileage in this old, obviously people that don’t know much about diesel. From what I’ve researched I think it’s a decent deal. I’ll have to get a new tailgate fix the radio the radio works, but it’s not a really bad install as well as just a bunch of other cosmetic stuff. As far as the engine goes, it looks like everything was fine. No blow by no major red flags.
Would you buy this 03 with 240,000 miles for 7500
Any advice on where to find a tailgate and do you think that as far as the peel and clearcoat goes if I just buffed it and sprayed clearcoat over it this be a decent fix I don’t really want to do a base coat