RayChez wrote:
Gjac wrote:
offthewall wrote:
RayChez wrote:
LOL! Some of these RVer's that are saying a gasoline coach is just as good as a diesel pusher do not know what they are talking about. They should take a drive on a diesel pusher and they would never go back to a gasoline coach. Now if they do not want to spend that kind of money, that is a different story. But to say that a gasoline motorhome rides just as good is insane.
Gasoline motorhomes are OK, but not comparison to a diesel pusher. SORRY!
A gasoline engine once it starts hitting 100K it is already in the twilight of being a good engine, while a diesel is just barely getting broke in.
^^^^^ THAT
I'm with you. We've owned a 2008 gasser and now a 2010 DP. No comparison in ride or pulling power. We now have our second DP on order (2015 Newmar Ventana 4037).
We are getting almost twice the fuel mileage with the DP. The CC of our DP on order is 11,300 lbs!!! The slide out, fully pass through storage bays will be a delight on my old back and I won't miss whacking my head on the bottom of an open slide loading or unloading. The ride is heavenly due to the air suspension, engine heat and noise in the back and huge increase in torque. We could tow anything, rather than being limited to the 5,000 lbs of a gasser.
We do not FT. We like to say that with the DP, we feel like we are on vacation the second we sit in the drivers seat with the DP. The Gasser was always a hot, noisy chore to get somewhere. Since we vacation within 500 miles from home, we never have to stop for fuel with the DP. Fill it up at home and again when we get back home.
When parked, we are not 3 feet in the air since the bags drop before the levelers are down.
No way would I ever get a Ford V10 based gasser again. If I ever decided i wanted something smaller, I'd get a Mercedes based diesel Sprinter model. That is a true "alternative" to a DP. A 35-40ft Class A gasser is a "compromise".
What did your gas MH weigh vs the weight of your 34y DP? What HP do you have in the DP? What was the MPG of each? Assuming your gas MH was a 362 HP ford how did the performance compare with your DP?
I am not sure if this was for my post or the other, but the gasoline motorhome I had was a 36' F-53 chassis with the V-10 engine weighed I believe 19K lbs. I would get 8-9 mpg. Good engine, bad transmission.
The diesel pusher I bought after that has the Caterpillar engine, I get 8 mpg average. The coach is 38'long and weigh's 30K lbs. It has a six speed Allison transmission. Very good coach. Have now 60K miles on it and it is running better now then ever. Lots of power going up long grades.
Ray it was actually for the other one. I found it hard to understand that a vehicle that weight 14,000 lbs with 362 HP would have less performance and 1/2 the mpgs of one that weighed 27,000 lbs and only 340 HP. Your numbers look very normal.
