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Re: MPG questions.
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...One of the reasons I purchased this vehicle was to improve MPG over my previous vehicle (2004 5.4L gas) that was getting 14-16 MPG......
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You're joking right? I'm not trying to sound ridiculous but how can anybody justify the thousands of dollars extra a diesel costs with better gas mileage.
Even if you got 19 MPG with the DIESEL you would have to drive it for a long time just to make up the difference in the cost of the more expensive motor.
This is just ballpark and I may be off on some numbers but here's an idea.
If the gas vehicle was getting 14mpg and gas cost $2.10 a gallon it costs .15 cents a mile to operate.
If your diesel was to magically get 19mpg all the time and diesel only cost $2.40 a gallon it costs .126 cents a mile to operate.
Now, the diesel motor truck probably costs $5000 more than the gasser. I'm probably way off there so you plug in whatever number you want.
The difference in operating costs is 2.4 cents. So you save 3 cents a mile driving the diesel best case scenario.
Now take $5,000 and divide it by anything from 2.4 - 5 cents and you'll see how long you'll have to drive your truck to just break even. So to make any kind of "savings" you'd have to drive it for 150,000 - 250,000 miles.
Not really a good way to "justify" buying the diesel.
Just my jaded .02 cents.
I bought the truck because it's freakin bad ass!!!
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