I’ve got a 1998 dodge diesel. It’s got 385k on it & still pulls my gooseneck, empty it’ll get 22 mpg. It’s relatively cheap to work on if it breaks but it rarely does. When I bought it diesel was $1.20 a gallon and gas was $1.40.
Today diesel fuel is almost a buck more than gas and the trucks get 14 mpg. If the high pressure pump goes you can be in for a $10k repair bill. Diesel pickups have gone from the cheapest to operate to the most expensive.
I can’t see myself buying another unless I decided to buy something really big to pull. They’ve gotten too expensive to purchase, too expensive to repair, and too expensive to operate. Thank the EPA. By all rights diesel should be cheaper than gas and the trucks should get 25-30 mpg.
