Buying a used diesel
I have never been a huge fan of diesels but find myself looking for one now. I am putting the house back on the market after having pulled it for a year to help out my daughter. We are hitting the r...
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deltabravo wrote:FishOnOne wrote:
I would never own a diesel truck that's equipped with a DPF and doesn't have DEF. Too many problems with them.
There's two Chevy trucks of that era in my driveway. One is a 2008, the other is a 2009. Both have been trouble free since new.
Consider yourself lucky or you drive a lot of highway miles and very little driving around town. A lot of these trucks would fill the crankcase with diesel from the regen process and is the main reason why GM switched to the 9th injector to address this problem.
I would still avoid one like the plague.
