Diesel to Gas? Yes/No???
Here’s the situation. I have a 2006 Dodge 2500 4x4, with 5.9 diesel, 193,000 miles. Love the truck, but just not comfortable trusting it on long tours. I recently retired in Feb and just completed a t...
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valhalla360 wrote:ScottG wrote:
While the 6.4 would do the job easily, the Cummins would be even better and when it comes time to trade it in, you'll get every cent back spent on the eng upgrade.
I've been pricing up used trucks in the 2008-2010 range. I'm finding diesel and gas trucks in similar condition and miles for around $9-15k...since the buy in price is an extra $10k, you are suggesting with the gas trucks, they should pay me $1000 (on the low end) to take it off their hands?
Don't know where your getting your numbers from but it has been my experience that a used Diesel, even one as old as the one in my signature has retained the full value of the option.
Dealers have offered me 16K sight unseen for my truck. It wouldn't be worth $6K if not for the Cummins. The diesel option on my truck was 5 or 6K.
So yeah, in the real world the Diesel will hold its value enough that the extra upfront cost is a non-issue.
