Diesel life span
I am thinking of purchasing a one ton deisel dually. Currently I have a 250 gasser. Can any of you senior members that have been towing for years with a deisel tell me how many miles I can expect ou...
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Dog Trainer wrote:DanNJanice wrote:2003silverado wrote:
I might get flamed here, but in my opinion about the only thing in the auto industry that has become less reliable in the last 10-15 years is the Diesel engines in light trucks. Diesels are regarded as long lasting mainly because of the logic of long ago, when gassers were junk after 100k miles and diesels were so simplistic, mainly due to the lack of an ignition system. Give it fuel and its gonna run. Diesels today are anything but simplistic with their electronics and 30,000+ psi injection systems. Most of the problems are emissions related.
Since you are getting a dually I imagine you are towing so heavy that a diesel may be necessary. But these days to buy a diesel solely for reliability and longevity is not sound logic, again, in my opinion.
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Modern diesels are not the "tractor" engines of yesteryear that ran their whole life at one low RPM speed. These engines are probably more complex that their gas counterparts and you can expect similar lifespan as a gas engine. Having said that, if you need power, you gotta go with a diesel!
That is an interesting observation do you truly believe that todays modern Diesels have the same life expectancy as a gas motor. I for one believe that these diesels will run much longer than that.
That is hard to say, I will let you know when my truck gets to the very high miles.
However, my instinct tells me that diesel pickup truck engines are not the tractor-like engine that is built and designed to run forever.
