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re: Buying a 3/4 ton Pick up
Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:34 am to tigerinthebueche
Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:34 am to tigerinthebueche
You can replace the engine in a gas truck for what a bad slug of fuel will cost you with a new diesel. You can buy a wholeeeee lot of gas with the $9k option price of the diesel. Even with the shite fuel mileage, unless you tow heavy constantly, you will come out ahead with the gas burner every time.
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Posted on 6/25/17 at 11:51 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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You can buy a wholeeeee lot of gas with the $9k option price of the diesel. Even with the shite fuel mileage, unless you tow heavy constantly, you will come out ahead with the gas burner every time.
I don't regret my 6.0 gas at all. It's got the power that diesels had 15 years ago.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 11:53 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
While the fuel thing is true, maintace can be higher, and it is somewhat true you have to drive a lot to save the $9k in fuel. Go to KBB and get a value for a used 2500 gasser. Then click the diesel option. It will add almost exactly the same as t is to add the option new. Essentially the diesel option depreciates much slower than the rest of the vehicle is depreciating. So you don't have to save $9k to pay for it. When you sell it you realize you saved the price on about the 15 tank.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 10:09 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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You can buy a wholeeeee lot of gas with the $9k option price of the diesel. Even with the shite fuel mileage, unless you tow heavy constantly, you will come out ahead with the gas burner every time.
LOL, same exact shite I told myself when rationalizing the 6.0 purchase. But in addition to shitty mileage, the lack of power and torque was just too much for me, personally.
When I hit the accelerator to merger onto i10, I want something to happen. Same when I'm towing.
Look, I don't give a hoot what anyone else does, I'm just telling you how I felt after going from a diesel back to a gasser. To each his own, but I'll never have anything other than a diesel as long as I have to haul hay, horses, and tractors. The added expense is worth it to me to have what the diesel offers. If you want a gasser good on you. Get after it.
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