Diesel vs gas......................
OK folks, there have been a few to many diesel vs gas threads that have shall we say gone to "Hell and a hand basket"! So if all of you would put in you BEST, no flaming reasons for going gas vs diese...
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Took delivery of a 2012 F250 6.2 gas King Ranch. Traded in a 2006 F250 diesel. It turns heads everywhere I go.
Never had any trouble with the 6.0, but I hated: not being able to get to the only diesel pump because some knucklehead with a SUV was blocking it; the racket in the morning starting up in a campground; needing to shut off the engine when ordering at any drive-thru because they couldn't hear me; the cost of diesel fuel; the smell; the mess around diesel pumps and the probability I'd be smelling it coming off my shoes and hands for hours; the noise going down the highway. I'll probably miss the ability to accelerate up a mountain with a 11K pound 5th wheel behind me, but how often does that happen?
In the meantime, I'm loving the quietness and the lack of diesel complications. And did I mention, the quietness? The additional cost of fuel due to poorer mileage is pretty well offset by the cheaper fuel, and in any case . . . I don't care!
Never had any trouble with the 6.0, but I hated: not being able to get to the only diesel pump because some knucklehead with a SUV was blocking it; the racket in the morning starting up in a campground; needing to shut off the engine when ordering at any drive-thru because they couldn't hear me; the cost of diesel fuel; the smell; the mess around diesel pumps and the probability I'd be smelling it coming off my shoes and hands for hours; the noise going down the highway. I'll probably miss the ability to accelerate up a mountain with a 11K pound 5th wheel behind me, but how often does that happen?
In the meantime, I'm loving the quietness and the lack of diesel complications. And did I mention, the quietness? The additional cost of fuel due to poorer mileage is pretty well offset by the cheaper fuel, and in any case . . . I don't care!
