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Location: minocqua, wi. | yesterday i drove my diesel for a nice 8 hour drive. it now has 220,000 miles on it and although i went through a few pains with it over the years, it's as nice and enjoyable to drive today as it was the day i bought it. i agree ... buy a diesel truck and then just quit thinking about buying trucks for 10 years or more. i'm driving this one to 500,000 then plan to pull it over on the side of the road and shoot it like an old horse. |
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Location: Dane Country | A new diesel does not stink at all. You can wrap a white towel on the pipe and it will smell like it was just ironed. Everything has a trade off. Gas engines cheap replacement diesel wow.In cold country you need to plug in a diesel,diesel has glow plugs,and a very expensive turbo.I have a 1997 Ford F250 with a 460 and my son has a 1997 Ford F250 diesel.Being a truck driver all my life I like the quiet gas my son loves the hot rod diesel. The funny thing is stock both trucks pull the same, but he does get better mpg. Both truck 14 yrs. old and still run like they are new.
Edited by Scooter70 11/7/2011 7:29 PM
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| I just bought a 2011 Ford F250 crew cab 4X4 6.7 liter diesel. We pull a Ranger 619VS which I guess weighs about 3000#. We just went from Indiana to Hayward and back, with the cruise set @ 72mph we got 13 to 15 mpg. The truck never shiftered out of 6th gear. On state roads without the boat @ 60-65 mph it gets 18 to 22 mpg. Diesel is about 40 to 50 cents a gallon higher than gas, so with the better mpg, it might be a wash. Fun truck to pull with. |
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| Another couple things to take into account is relaxation. I use to drive a somewhat underpowered SUV and I would baby it but it just didn't quite cut it. I was always dreading the 3 hour drive up North and back. I would have to draft off of semi trucks and keep it around 60-65 miles per hour. I was always the slowest guy on the road but I was babying it getting good mileage but it was still very stressful as it was always gear jumping etc...
Now I just sit back and relax while towing. It's all about torque. Not just lots of torque but "low end torque." Lots of vehicles today have tons of torque but they're so HIGH up in the power band. Sure you might get 275pounds of torque in your little SUV but if it's at 3700+ rpms it's useless. How often are you running at 3700rpm? You want a vehicle that has low end torque with 90% of it coming at 1000 rpms. It really makes a difference. |
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