Towing in the real world. gas or diesel
I've been down the gas road in 04 and the diesel in 09. Looking to buy again. I had a lighter trailer in 04 but my siverado 6+ liter gas would just scream in a head wind. 4000 rpm was common. Bigge...
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transamz9 wrote:
You have one of the worst diesel engines put in a light duty truck as far as cost to keep going so you have a bad taste in your mouth. 2009 was not really a good year for any of them. I urge you to reconsider your train of thoughts.
This! The 2008-2010 diesels of any kind were some of the worst diesels ever due to the newly added emissions systems that were prone to fail as with anything new. I compare them to the 1997-2003 gas vehicles that were failure prone due to the newly added EGR systems, O2 sensors, and what not to meet the new gas emissions laws. However, just like those emissions systems became more reliable as time went on, so has the emissions systems in the diesels.
Today's DPF/EGR/SCR diesel emissions systems are leaps and bounds ahead in terms of reliability when compared to the early years of DPF/EGR/DOC only systems . Unfortunately there are many here who still mistakenly place the same negative stigma of those early engines on today's diesel engines thinking they are the same.
