Cummins to Hemi?

FishOnOne wrote:

ShinerBock wrote:

FishOnOne wrote:

ShinerBock wrote:

Me Again wrote:

It will be 8 years or 120K from date of purchase before I have to worry about out of warranty repairs.

By then it should be pretty much settle it.

Why don't you trade your powerstroke for 6.2?

Chris

I think he was just saying it because you have a Cummins and we all know how he will go out of his way just to pi$$ on Cummins. Heck, he will even make illogical statements like he did there just to get his jabs in when he can so I would not take it as any kind of rational thought or advice.

No...t.

Nope, it is just you purposely going out of your way to be like that neighbor that passes you.

I mean, there is plenty of bad things I can say about Powerstroke because my company owns four ford truck dealerships and one of my good friends at work is the Corporate fleet manager in charge of over 500 trucks(almost all Fords since we sold our GM dealerships) and I have to hear about his headaches with the diesels on a regular basis, but you don't see me pi$$ing on the Powerstroke every chance I get while saying " I just report things that you just don't like to accept". Why, because I am not like you and your neighbor and I don't go out of my way to put down someone else's engine choice every chance I get.

And that's why I stated I expect to have a expensive repair on my truck in the future. Diesels have way more opportunities for a failure than a gas V8 engine.

Like I said again stating facts you don't want to hear.

Actually this is false and there have even been university studies to prove so.

University of Michigan Total Cost of Ownership: A Diesel Versus Gasoline Comparison

If you look on pages 29 and 33 then you will find the Ram gas versus Ram diesel comparison to see that over a 3 and 5 years time, the Gas is more expensive when total cost of ownership is evaluated. What people always fail to consider when evaluating diesel versus gas is that while a single repair or maintenance may cost more for diesel, these repairs and maintenance have much longer intervals.

The 15k mile fuel and oil filter change on the Cummins for example would mean that you would have to do two to three oil changes in the 6.4L for the one oil change in the Cummins. This in conjunction with the fact that the 6.4L requires special high cost oil means that the $170 I pay to have the dealership change my oil and I change my fuel filters every 15k would be the same if not less than two or three oil changes in the same mileage with the 6.4L.

But I guess these are fact that you don't want to believe. So where are the studies to back up your "factual"(aka I wanna be like my neighbor) statements?