Keep our diesel or get a gas truck?
We have a 2012 Ram 2500 diesel. We pull our 5er approximately 5 times per year, 50 mile round trip each time. Otherwise it's just a daily driver. Dh takes it to work which is a 15 mile trip one way...
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TomG2 wrote:
It's funny how many folks who talk of the benefits of driving a pickup fifteen years and 300,000 miles show vehicles two or three years old in their signatures. (Yes, I know there are exceptions) I haven't put over 100,000 miles on one since the 90's. I don't care what fuel it burns, I don't want to drive a ten year old vehicle.
My last diesel, the engine and transmission were a work horse. But the body was falling apart. It had fiberglass fat fenders (dually) and they had spider cracks so bad I was concerned about gigantic chunks falling off them. The doors were beginning to rust along the bottom. When I checked with a body repair shop, they wouldn't even touch it. They said the rust was too deep in the doors. Any surface repair would not last as the rust was under everything. In order to keep a nice looking truck, we chose to trade for a new one. We still got $18,000 for it on trade in though! New one cost $54,000 so we were delighted at the trade-in value we got.
That's why WE have a 1 year old diesel with less than 10,000 miles right now!
