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Eng hours to miles?????

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Hey guys so two days ago I was taking the baby out of my cough Ford f250 and I hurt my back ! Now as most Know I've had two back surgery s and am doing better then before but still in pain!
So I figured my problem was huffing fat baby up and down in her seat ! Yeah I could take her out but some times I loose my legs and thus us just safer for her.
So I decided it's fine for truck to find a new owner .
So I want something like to ground and a mopar (and 4 door) ! This puts two cars in front of me a charger and 300.
I've had a charger before and it was nice a little slow but nice .
So I want a hemi car !

I found a police charger it's retired and in extremely good shape! So it's an old fhp car it has 200000 miles on it ! So most will say no but honestly half is about what it is since it was a highway car! Now the big ? What is a normal hour reading for 200k
The guy says this car has 9800 hours on it !
That seems a bit high in my opinion anyone know if this is high low or ???? It's a 2015 charger with the 5.7 .
Any input???
It's only $9000 , probably what I'll get from said truck !
Most everything else is $15k+
Anyone looking for a 05 king ranch 4x4 brand new 5.4 motor !
 
I'm intrigued by this math story problem, so here goes.
At 60 miles per hour you would cover 200k miles in about 3,333 hours, so 9800 hours for that mileage equals about 20 mph per mile. Seems like a reasonable average considering that squad cars spend a lot of time idling. Think about how much time is spent on the side of the road during a traffic stop, a crash or other incident, running radar, or even just parked at the station. If anything, the hours may be considered low for the mileage. I usually only think of hours on an engine for tractors, generators and firetrucks. Never thought about it for a passenger car.
 
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The Ford Crown Vic police cars had an idle hours readout function on the dash. Ford said that one hour of idle time is equal to 33 miles. Check around on the internet and you will probably find a group that discusses the Dodge Charger police cars. In particular, how to display the idle hours and how many miles are equivalent to one hour of idling.
 
Hey guys so two days ago I was taking the baby out of my cough Ford f250 and I hurt my back ! Now as most Know I've had two back surgery s and am doing better then before but still in pain!
So I figured my problem was huffing fat baby up and down in her seat ! Yeah I could take her out but some times I loose my legs and thus us just safer for her.
So I decided it's fine for truck to find a new owner .
So I want something like to ground and a mopar (and 4 door) ! This puts two cars in front of me a charger and 300.
I've had a charger before and it was nice a little slow but nice .
So I want a hemi car !

I found a police charger it's retired and in extremely good shape! So it's an old fhp car it has 200000 miles on it ! So most will say no but honestly half is about what it is since it was a highway car! Now the big ? What is a normal hour reading for 200k
The guy says this car has 9800 hours on it !
That seems a bit high in my opinion anyone know if this is high low or ???? It's a 2015 charger with the 5.7 .
Any input???
It's only $9000 , probably what I'll get from said truck !
Most everything else is $15k+
Anyone looking for a 05 king ranch 4x4 brand new 5.4 motor !

That is an absurdly high price for that car.

A young family on a budget. I believe we can all appreciate your situation and the circumstances with your back is a challenge in terms of working on a car. You would be better off with a mass produced "civilian" Dodge Charger.
 
Most newer cars and trucks now have some way to see the total hours they have run. 200000 miles is how far the car was driven , hours is how long the car was running, that includes every second once the car was started and running even if it was not driven one inch. So 9800 hours is entirely possible. One of my coustomers had an IH tree truck that showed 15,000 hours but only around 70,000 miles. the truck ran all day while sitting still at a job while the operator worked in the bucket cutting trees. So forget trying to do math to get the time to miles to make sense it doesn't work, cops sit a lot while looking for their next victims and will no be too hot in the warm weather or too cold when its cold. That cop car has been running since it left the factory , infact its running right now......
 
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https://www.powerstrokediesel.com/docs/How_Idle_Time_Affects_Maint_Intervals.pdf

Multiply the amount of hours on your engine by 60. Use the number you come up with to estimate how many miles are on your engine. For example, 1,235 hours on an engine equates to approximately 74,100 miles.

Ford Motor Company de nes extended idling as follows: Over 10 minutes per hour of normal driving Frequent low speed operation
Sustained heavy traf c less then 25 MPH

– One hour of idle time, is equal to approximately 25 miles of driving

If any 6.0L powered vehicle falls into the above categories it is classi ed under Severe Service Operations and thus the following maintenance intervals are suggested in the Owner’s Manual:

Oil Filter: 5,000 miles, 200 engine hours, 250 gallons of fuel or 3 months (whichever comes rst)

Fuel Filters: 10,000 miles, 400 engine hours or 6 months (whichever comes rst)

Why is this important?

Example: Each day a certain vehicle averages 50
miles driven and 6 hours of idle time. Here’s how its maintenance schedule would look different based simply on miles driven:

5,000 miles recommended interval divided by 50 miles driven per day would result in a scheduled oil change every 100 days

Factoring in the idle hours on those 100 days:
6 hours of idle time per day at an estimated 25 miles per idle hour (from above; one hour of idle time is equal to approximately 25 miles of driving) results in 15,000 simulated miles.

Conclusion: after 100 days the engine oil actually has 20,000 miles of wear! If this vehicle were to perform scheduled maintenance based on engine hours instead of miles driven the interval would change to approximately 30 days.
 
I walk my dog pass the police station daily. Their cars parked at the curb are sitting there running. I asked one of the cops about that. I was told that most of the time the cars may run for 24 hours or more,even during shift changes and they don't even shut them down during fueling.The inside cabin looks like the space shuttle with computers and all kinds of electronics.
I think that 33 mile average sound about right.
 
Back in the day when I was A Diesel Mechanic. All vehicles were started and idle for hours durning cold weather periods (Hard Starts). It look like a cloud field above the parking area...
The biggest problem durning idling is fuel runoff into the oil pass by the rings. Testing of the oil was always performed.
 
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I hear ya. I worked for a trucking company back in PA. Cold weather the Mack trucks ran constantly.
 
Just a fyi @Bb70charger500
Beginning at 4:32 in this video it shows how to display engine hours AND idle hours.

 
Definately look at the idle hours, I used to co manage a police fleet of 105 cars. All the info above is very good. In a nutshell, I had a 2014 Explorer with 110,000 miles on , I swapped it out gave it to a school resource officer to use. I pulled the info from the onboard data collection , long story short, with idle time and actual mileage...using mathematics the 3.5 plain jane motor had the equivalent of 630,000 miles on it. That little motor ran like a champ.
Personally, I would never buy a used police car that was used for daily patrol, they are rode hard put away wet. I would maybe buy a detective car, but patrol car I would pass, especially if its more than a couple of grand. Another thing to consider is if you get into an accident and insurance runs the vin to check things out, and they see it was a patrol car, they probably wont fix it, due to use n abuse. I have had several patrol cars get involved in accidents over the years and once the adjuster checks things out, more often than not the car got totalled, just because it was a patrol car..horrible depreciation in comparison to a civilian equivalent .
 
Hey guys so two days ago I was taking the baby out of my cough Ford f250 and I hurt my back ! Now as most Know I've had two back surgery s and am doing better then before but still in pain!
So I figured my problem was huffing fat baby up and down in her seat ! Yeah I could take her out but some times I loose my legs and thus us just safer for her.
So I decided it's fine for truck to find a new owner .
So I want something like to ground and a mopar (and 4 door) ! This puts two cars in front of me a charger and 300.
I've had a charger before and it was nice a little slow but nice .
So I want a hemi car !

I found a police charger it's retired and in extremely good shape! So it's an old fhp car it has 200000 miles on it ! So most will say no but honestly half is about what it is since it was a highway car! Now the big ? What is a normal hour reading for 200k
The guy says this car has 9800 hours on it !
That seems a bit high in my opinion anyone know if this is high low or ???? It's a 2015 charger with the 5.7 .
Any input???
It's only $9000 , probably what I'll get from said truck !
Most everything else is $15k+
Anyone looking for a 05 king ranch 4x4 brand new 5.4 motor !

The cheapest price on a retired cop car is at an auction of government fleet vehicles. I agree with @Ski 61701 above... don't get a patrol car. A detective car and (sometimes) an unmarked cop car are a good choice. Occasionally, you will see an admin car (e.g., school truant officer car) and they usually are in decent shape.
 
Thanks guys ! After hearing everything I think the hour counter is a bit high . I think I'll look around for a reg one there's a nice 300 for 11k maybe I can get him down a bit
 
I know you said {hemi} but the V6 models are right at 300hp and much lower cost.
Better engine also JMHO. I am not a fan of the {New}style hemis most of them around here that have many miles sound like paint can full of rocks when 1st fired up. Or just like a 5.3 GM engine.
Ok flame away :praying:
 
I had a v6 charger it was very slow it's not a light car .
But now things are different I'm not really concerned about speed as much as the f250 is like dragging a boat anchor with the boat still attached!!!
 
I'm just going to get truck sold then see what I can afford!
 
Ok guys ... Firstly I wrote off that coo charger I looked on eBay and there's a dozen with same everything and half the Mile's same price!
So a cop car is still on my list about $10-12k gets me a hemi awd charger
9-10k hemi rwd.
So I did see a 2007 super bee 6.1 with only 70k miles it's very very nice a little over budget $13k but it's bad *** I'm thinking about it too! Then lastly there a 14 300c 100k loaded except it's a v6 $11k

So I have a 3.6
A 5.7
And a 6.1
So witch would you guys suggest?
So yeah the mpg is a little factor but I don't drive much and this truck only gets 13-14mpg so the big boy isn't going to kill me .
I see they are all reliable. But I see people complaining about all of them the v6 might eat water system components. The 6.1 may burn the Pistons up (one person said this ) I'd assume it was just beat on to much .
And the 5.7 people are still saying the heads go bad often!!!!
These are all horrible things .
Does anyone have first hand on these motor s .


Then we have the trans !
Two have the 5 speed auto
One has the 8 speed auto
I've not used a 5 speed before are they decent the 8 speed I'm not fond of for passing as it needs to shift threw 4 gears before it goes anywhere (I had a v6 8 speed charger)
 
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