Might be forced to buy Diesel
Wife and I have been looking at Fifth-wheels. My truck is 8 years old (half ton) and I was thinking about getting a new 1 Ton gas truck next year. It seems that all the Fifth-wheel floor plans we re...
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MetalGator wrote:rhagfo wrote:
Would like to understand your fear of diesel, Cummins has been one of the most trouble free diesels year after year. Or is it the $8,000 up front cost? You can deal that down some, but will get much of it back at trading time, as diesels hold a higher value.
I don't have a fear of diesel but I don't want to tear up a $50,000+ truck up because I only do 6 miles trips and only put about 7k miles a year on it. That's why I posted to see if any others do short trips on their new dieusels. The money is not really an issue to me if I can get many trouble free years out of a diesel with my current driving habits.
If I did buy one, it would probably be a RAM Cummings just because my last two trucks were Dodge/RAM and have been trouble free (non diesel trucks).
Burch
If you drive long highway trips and put more miles per year on a truck you will get more miles out of the truck. Those that put 50,000 miles per year on their diesels are getting 500,000 miles out of an engine. So if you only put 7000 miles per year on your truck maybe you will reduce its engine life to 140,000 miles and you'll have to replace the truck in 20 years. The periodic highway trip is needed with the new deisels to clean the exhaust filter. The information screen on the dash will let you known that it's time to take the truck for a little longer drive every once and a while. An engine likes to be run long enough in the winter to get up to temperature so it can evaporate condensation from the crankcase so the short trips might require that you change oil every 5000 miles.
