Diesel,,,, the rest of the story??
As some of you may have read, I need to buy a bigger truck and am considering a dually ( among other things ). I've also found a few newer trucks with diesel engines that fall into my budget, but dies...
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Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:sidney wrote:jrstout89 wrote:
If diesel is 10% more expensive but gets 30% better mileage then for 50,000 miles with a fuel price of gas/$4.00 and diesel/$4.40 and gas/8mpg and diesel/10.3mpg it comes out to:
Gas uses 6250 gallons for a cost of $25,000
Diesel uses 4584 gallons for a cost of $21,359
Saving $3641 dollars.
After looking at prices for routine maintenance items I think diesel looks like it may be about 30% more expensive then the gasser. So if you spend $400 on the gasser in that 50,000 miles you can look at spending about $120 more during that same period bringing your savings on fuel down to $3521.
Can these numbers be disputed? Maybe, but if you don't tow huge mileage every year or use the tow vehicle as a daily driver and keep the tow weights within reason (11k for my purposes) I don't consider a diesel cost effective.
In 100,000 miles the fuel savings would have paid for the diesel engine option... at 100,000 miles a Cummins is just about broke in:B
So at 140,000 my truck is paying me!!!!! Not to mention my 2004 Ram CTD will still fetch $20,000, a 2500 Hime in the same condition might get you $12,000. So tell me again how a gas truck is a better investment????
Don
Not risking having a tablespoon of water in the fuel resulting in a $10,000+ repair, maybe?
