Buying New What would you buy and why

DAF’s like to eat turbos.

My 8 year old CF, 6x2 460bhp, with only 630k on it, decided one day to have it’s turbo for lunch. It was on very light work, so the problem wasn’t that the engine had worked hard. My boss has just replaced it with a brand new XFSSC, 6x2 12 speed auto, with the new TraXon gearbox, which is as comfortable as it gets. I believe the gearbox is just a newer version of the ZF, but is built in such a way to produce more torque from the engine. Mine is 480bhp.

A friend of mine has the smaller cab version XFSC, which has just eaten it’s diff with 14k on it. The truck is 3 months old.

Ken.