Cheap 2012/13/14 international prostars. good or bad?

There was a place in Wyoming I think, had them for about $18,000, buy 2 get 1 free.

 

Cause anything with a maxxforce engine it is junk with scrap resale value .
The beater car of class 8 trucks .

 

Buddy of mine bought a 2012 prostar maxxforce powered ...ex hill bros truck for 12k and pretty nice truck .
Ran it trouble free for 2 years and at trade in time he got offered 5 k for it by a scrapyard ...kenworth wouldn't even take it on trade .

 

Run away, very far and very fast!

If you've got $40,000 to spend on a truck, they're are plenty of elog-exempt 1990's large cars looking for a good home.

 

Problem with those is that they are a crapshoot as to when they break down.
@Heavyd is our resident International guru.
There are a lot off threads in which he posted about the problems and solutions for those maxxforce engines.
Read them.

 

That really isn’t bad. I would be happy if my truck lost only $3500 a year in value.

International trucks themselves aren’t horrible but the max force is junk. I have owned four internationals and even my dealer tells me to avoid the max force.

It all depends on your personal definition of nice but you can certainly find a truck that can make you money and won’t be junk in the 30k range. Much less than that get ready for some repairs and headaches and stepping up to 40-50k will get you a much nicer truck.

 

How much do you have? I am firmly against borrowing money for a truck. Tons of people do it but it increases your chance of failure exponentially. If I were in your shoes I would keep doing what you are doing and save up and pay cash for your truck. Then you can own it and it won’t own you.