diesel maintenance questions
I'm considering the 2014 Ram 1500 diesel, but I've never had a diesel before. Besides pumping diesel into it instead of gasoline, what are the differences with maintenance and upkeep? What about the...
Forum Discussion
yea, there is a lot of bad info out there from non diesel owners. I got the same feed back from this group.
I eventually went to the ford dealer and talked to the service advisor and punched it all into a spreadsheet. Diesel will save you money over the long run if you maintain it properly. The nice thing about a gas engine, you don't really have to maintain it, and most people don't, they just drive them into the ground and rarely even change the oil.
Diesel allows 7500-10K between oil changes, depending on usage and types of diesel you are using.
MPG are way better. My V10 excursion would squeak out 11mpg and with a tail wind and 55mph 17. My diesel excursion would get 17 no problem and wasn't uncommon to see 22mpg.
My F350 averages, averages, 15.1mpg with 4.10 gearing driving at 65mph. My F350 is 100% Stock.
Now, that ram 1500 ED will get consistently 26mpg on the freeway during the break in period. Four wheeler magazines has already done several write up on it since last year. They stated, that if you used hyper miler techniques it was easy to get 30mpg.
So let me put this into perspective for you. Lets, take my f350 at 15.1 mpg and compare it to that ram at 23 mpg avg. If your fuel cost 3.95 p/gal and you drove 17K miles per year, your truck would use $2919.57 in fuel where as I would use $4447.02, you would best me by just over $1500 in that first year.
You are talking about a truck that is getting mileage better than a minivan and up there with mid-sized passenger cars.
I eventually went to the ford dealer and talked to the service advisor and punched it all into a spreadsheet. Diesel will save you money over the long run if you maintain it properly. The nice thing about a gas engine, you don't really have to maintain it, and most people don't, they just drive them into the ground and rarely even change the oil.
Diesel allows 7500-10K between oil changes, depending on usage and types of diesel you are using.
MPG are way better. My V10 excursion would squeak out 11mpg and with a tail wind and 55mph 17. My diesel excursion would get 17 no problem and wasn't uncommon to see 22mpg.
My F350 averages, averages, 15.1mpg with 4.10 gearing driving at 65mph. My F350 is 100% Stock.
Now, that ram 1500 ED will get consistently 26mpg on the freeway during the break in period. Four wheeler magazines has already done several write up on it since last year. They stated, that if you used hyper miler techniques it was easy to get 30mpg.
So let me put this into perspective for you. Lets, take my f350 at 15.1 mpg and compare it to that ram at 23 mpg avg. If your fuel cost 3.95 p/gal and you drove 17K miles per year, your truck would use $2919.57 in fuel where as I would use $4447.02, you would best me by just over $1500 in that first year.
You are talking about a truck that is getting mileage better than a minivan and up there with mid-sized passenger cars.
