Buuuttt it seems to me if your buying a diesel to save on fuel, the savings will not offset the higher cost of the diesel pickup.
Let say you get 4 miles to the gallon more with the diesel. And spread that over 150000 miles. That would save about 1400 gallon of fuel. 1400 times 3 bucks a gallon is $4200 savings in fuel.
If you spread that over 7 years you save 600 a year.
Interest on the extra cost of the diesel engine is around 500 a year.
Your lugging power may be better but how many of those miles do you pull the weight around.
Use to be a gasser had to have a tune up every year and the deisel required none. A gasser will go over a 100,000 without a tune up now.
Son in laws company is switching back to gassers. They own about 30 pickups for service and between the cold winter problems and the higher maintance costs they gave up on diesels. He puts on about 40,000 miles a year.
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