I ordered a '05 Laramie reg cab rwd and have owned it since new. It now has 430,000 on it all still looks good, spends winters in AZ so no rust. The last 11 years it has had a Lance camper on it and I tow a 9,000# tall box trailer about 10,000 a year. I have put in 4 - 48RE transmissions that I consider cost of driving. First one was warranty. Last one the torque converter came apart, up until then it was fine & had 125,000 on it. I went back with Jasper reman & put their 3 disk converter in it too. No issues. I lost the motor at 337,000 with an injector that stuck opened & filled cylinder with fuel & bent a rod. That sucked but again in checking for available engines, Cummins only had long block with no turbos or injectors available. Again I put Jasper reman in that was run for a day or 2 on their in shop Dyno. It has 90,000+ on it now and the only issues have been the exhaust manifolds have been changed twice. They replaced the first one no problem as less than 2 years. But it was same non-oem they sent engine out with. It warped, leaked and cracked 3,000 miles ago in a hard pull out of Rapid City pulling the trailer and manifold cracked then and was replaced again with a thick flange 2 piece the shop liked to use. Truck mostly is sitting now as a car is used in AZ winters. Standard front end replacement parts and front bearings twice since camper on it all the time. For me it's been a good truck and I have no plans of getting rid of it, I'm not rich and it still works good. I did find out that injectors don't last forever so will change around 200,000 miles as suggested by mechanic. Back in with OEM for it then I suppose.
