📋 Should I buy a gas or diesel truck?

BundysGarage constantly gets asked by guys whether they should buy a gas or diesel truck. As a diesel shop owner, BundysGarage will tell you straight up. Buying a diesel is expensive like owning a BMW. As Arnie points out, BundysGarage is a diesel shop. His truck has a gas. BundysGarage needs to look at your purchase price and how many miles you drive to see if MPG efficiency offsets the initial price tag over a 5-year period.

Diesel engines often get slightly better fuel economy, but the fuel itself usually costs more per gallon. A 2012 Vincentric study found that when all costs are considered over 5 years driving 15,000 miles annually, diesels cost $1,203 more than their gas counterparts.

A gas motor will pull your trailer, but your fuel mileage will be horrible and you'll go really slow up hills. As Arnie points out, if you tell BundysGarage you have a big toy hauler and you go out quite often, you need a diesel.

Diesel maintenance is expensive, just like owning a luxury car. As BundysGarage notes, it's not just the oil change. You got to put a fuel filter in it. Sometimes there's two depending on what it is. Sometimes there's a separator.

Emissions systems are notoriously costly. EGR course fail. They get hot-cold, hot-cold, hot-cold, and they fail. That's a big price, but then DPF parts, those are expensive. As BundysGarage asks, how many times did you go to the lake? They tell BundysGarage how many times a year, and tells BundysGarage you need a gas truck. You don't need a diesel.

Based on content by Arnie on BundysGarage (YouTube).

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