bgum wrote:
Diesels are very expensive to maintain and sell the farm when they break. Injectors alone are a fortune. Also look at cost of fuel vs gas. You can buy a very nice new gas truck for $30000. You would have a 3 year warranty and a new truck. Take it from someone who have owned both.
expensive to maintain??? NOPE, not in my experience. my 04 duramax has 140K miles, regular oil changes every 10K and filter every 15K and that's about it. never had any thing fail. fuel more expensive, yes, but mileage is enough better to overcome that. DS has it now and I've got a 2015 denali sierra duramax
is it worth the extra initial cost?? that's an individual decision of what you want.
on the OP questions, my biggest gripe on the 04.5 is the 26 gallon fuel tank. GM finally went to a 36 gallon on the short box in 2015. But if 26 gallons is small on a diesel, it's outrageously small on a gasser when your towing.
