Diesel vs gas......................

He is right my local Ford dealer sent me a coupon for a $200 oil change recently. I have just changed my own oil and filter for the first time in 25+ years because I just couldn't see myself giving Ford or any shop that kind of money. I have to admit I did pay them once for a oil change and fuel filter changed when I first bought it but once I took the truck to High Velocity Diesel Performance for the work in the sig the owners wife was able to point out that my oil filter cap was non OEM and low and behold the filter was non OEM also. Lesson learned not all dealers follow their own manufacturer recommendations lol! When I got my truck out of their shop I took the CarQuest filter and cap back to Ford and got a FULL refund. So for me for $100 I get 4 gallons of Rotella T6 synthetic ($84) and a $20 oil filter and about 20 minutes of my time.

bigg-limo wrote:

sacmarata wrote:

SWAGGER wrote:
not sure this this been posted but is a recent study from 2013

http://www.dieselforum.org/files/dmfile/20130311_CD_UMTRITCOFinalReport_dd2017.pdf


Overall, the results of our analyses show that diesel vehicles provide owners with a TCO that is less than that of the gas versions of the same vehicles. The estimates of savings for three and five years of ownership vary from a low of $67 in three years to a high of $15,619 in five years, but most of the savings are in the $2,000 to $6,000 range, which also include the extra cost that is usually added to the diesel version of a vehicle.

Do you know if this includes paying for simple maintenance? I consider simple maintenance to be oil and filters.
At the rate that some places charge for diesel oil and filter change, it could quickly skew the Cost of Ownership numbers as compared to a gasser.

I've known some perfectly capable folks who pay for diesel oil changes instead of doing it themselves and heard reports of oil changes upwards of $250 simply because it's a diesel!

Without giving a thorough overview of the report, I bet the numbers reported could improve a lot more even.

$250 X 5 times a year = $1250. It wouldn't take long for that to do some SERIOUS damage to your cost of ownership. I'm not sure what an oil change station would charge for a 6+ liter gasser oil change, but I've never heard anything even close to $250.

I would also like to submit that not everybody has to have the newest diesel. Theres several "old technology" diesels out there that are WAAAY less costly to maintain. My '94 Cummins being one of them. I've never used any additives EVER and my oil changes only cost what I spend in oil :)

Where are they going to get there oil changed? I'd like to know so that I never show up there. The most I've ever paid on an oil change was between $120-$140,...and that was the PMs on my medium duty Freightliners and my Motorhome that had a 15L Cat in it. My pickups, I pay $68 at Wally World for Rotella. If they wanna give money away, pm me for my address.