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Having camped off and on since I was a child, I learned very early that tent camping is not for me! A few years ago, my then girlfriend decided we were all going camping. Me and my 2 kids, her and her...
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Reddog1 wrote:
hedgehopper - I need not make up the numbers, they would serve no useful purpose. On this subject, I do not even need to cite what I have read, I am speaking of my personal experience. As for the MPG, be it a gas or diesel, it makes no sense that my Dodge 2500 with TC (10,400 lbs) gets 12 MPG, and the Toyota (4200 lbs) gets 14 MPG. I guess you could improve the efficiency of the Toyota with a diesel. I really like the Toyota, but it has its weak points.
Wayne
Apparently, I was unclear about what I was trying to say. Let me try again:
(1) Even if only one percent of Toyota engines fail before 200k miles, yours could still be part of the one percent.
(2) Even if forty percent of Dodge engines fail before 200k miles, yours could still be part of the sixty percent that don't.
Disclaimer: I am not saying that one percent of Toyota engines fail before 200k miles. Nor am I saying that forty percent of Dodge engines do. Theses are simply numbers that I chose to illustrate a point.
(3) If your Toyota got 14 mpg and mine got 20 mpg, there are other factors involved that we did not discuss. For example: Our Tundra was a 6-cylinder with manual transmission. Maybe yours was a big V8 with automatic transmission.
