Truck for Eagle Cap 1165?
We recently traded an Arctic Fox 990 for a EC 1165. Besides missing my AF, I'm trying to figure out what bigger truck to put underneath this monster. I found a deal on a cab/chassis Dodge 5500 but it...
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brholt wrote:Bedlam wrote:
Thanks, I slipped an extra zero into my last post. It should have been 25,000 miles.
No, your original 250,000 mile number is not unreasonable. 25,000 is unreasonable. For example, suppose the diesel gets 12 MPG and the gas gets 9. Today the price in Seattle is $3.00 for gas, $3.40 for diesel. This means to recover the $8,000 investment in the diesel you need to drive 160,000 miles. Say the gas gets 9.5 MPG and you have to drive 246,000 miles
Now, you can play with different combinations of numbers but the bottom line is you are going to have to drive a lot to recover the initial outlay under any reasonable assumptions.
He stated that you could drive 250,000 miles on the $8,000 difference. NOT TRUE! At $3.40 gallon and say 12.5 mpg, that is 20,000 gallons of fuel. 20,000 x $3.40 is $68,000.
...and people always forget that a well taken care of diesel engine is worth a lot more than a gas engine at 250,000 miles.
