Given choice gas or diesel powered fill time coach

Ivylog wrote:


You will hear it's less expensive to go with a 5er and a PU (been there, done that) but for what a new diesel PU and a quality 5er cost... $120K+ you can find a nice high end 10- year old DP that has taken the depreciation hit and still has many years and miles left in it for less.
The cost difference gas/diesel is not enough to worry about. One oil change every 15K miles instead of 4-5 for a gasser. There may be a $100 difference the price of tires for a a DP and big gasser... every 7-9 years.

$120k and you are getting a brand new truck and 5th wheel. If you go with a comparable 10yr old combo, you are probably in the $30-40k range compared to your $120k DP.

Most gas engines get 7-10k miles between oil changes, so while not big, the diesel will cost you more. It's really the up front cost of the diesel engine that gets you.

The rest of your discussion that I cut out was confusing the difference between lower end vs higher end rigs and had little to do with diesel vs gas other than the higher end rigs come with diesel standard. Of course, it you compare a low end gas rig vs a high end diesel it will look better but when you compare rigs that have the engine choice, diesel is nice but in no way critical.