Dodge - Diesel or gas?
Already know my new truck will be a 2014 Dodge SRW Crew Cab 4x4 with auto tranny. What I don't know is if I should go with the new 6.4 or diesel. Worked outthe numbers and the cost for my use of 15k...
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rexlion wrote:
I wonder if it would be appropriate to tack on one more advantage of gas: less worry about water in the fuel system?
I bring that up because I am looking at a Grand Cherokee with 3L diesel and have been reading the owner's manual and diesel supplement online. The supplement states that if the warning light for water in fuel comes on, one must immediately stop the vehicle, shut it off, and within 10 minutes crawl under the vehicle and open the drain... because continued operation could ruin the engine! That has alarmed me somewhat.
This should be part of normal maintenance. New filters are cheap insurance, but there is also a drain that you can open and drain some fuel into a small container, close the valve and look in the container for signs of water in the fuel. Takes less than a minute of your time. You do have to remember that a large percentage of vehicles in the rest of the world are diesel. People have been living with them for over a hundred years with great success.
