It's what they've done to current diesels that has a lot of old time cattlemen and farmers going back to gassers.
A good friend, who's in the cattle business, bought a new 4 door Dodge diesel. Dash lights kept coming on, causing him to take it back to dealer on multiple occasions. Finally, one day, it "lit up like a Christmas tree" and shut down. He had it towed and I'm sure used the Lemon Law to get rid of it.
He then bought a 4 door Ford F-350 4 door with the 7.3 gas engine, put his fancy aluminum bed on it. He says it gives him around 13 mpg or so, but doesn't leave him in the field. It pulls almost as good as a diesel.
Now, the older diesels were great. But govt regs got worse and worse until new diesels are less than ideal.
I would buy an older, low mileage, pre DEP diesel in good shape, or get a gasser. Gas engines are generally less expensive to maintain. Just price starters for gas and diesel engines,
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