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L86 All Terrain Senior Enthusiast

L86 All Terrain

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Great to have more options, but diesels haven't appealed to me since around 2010. I have an 05 and 07 Dmax for my business and run class 8 trucks, I know diesel and I deal with it much more often than gas engines. With that said, you couldn't pay me to take a diesel for a pick up truck engine, especially a half ton. My Kenworth's are constantly in the shop with DEF issues, it makes it hard to pay the $5,000 a month payments when the truck is broken and in the garage once a week. My first DEF'er was a 2012, I have hated diesels with a passion since that point. We deleted two of them and got ratted out by childish competition, now it costed me 10k per truck to hook the DEF back up and now I have Junk that just costs you money again. The last 3 HD trucks have all been 6L gas engines to avoid "Green" diesels. With that said, the half ton is a 3L? light duty diesel engine. It likely wont be a power house and will be aimed at economy like the Ram and Ford engine. When you consider the up charge to move to diesel, the (usually) higher fuel cost, the added DEF fluid, and the known unreliability of the after treatment systems, it doesn't make a lot of sense economically. You would have to drive the truck for 6 years+ just for the diesel option to pay itself off given you have no issues with it. Until Trump smacks up the EPA (lucky Americans) and makes them realize DEF harms the environment more than it helps, I would personally stay away from them. Commercially, I have no choice and Cuckanada is too used to the new taxes and revenue these failing systems provide the Government. 

mookdoc6 Senior Enthusiast

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45 minutes ago, 10SierraA.T. said:

Great to have more options, but diesels haven't appealed to me since around 2010. I have an 05 and 07 Dmax for my business and run class 8 trucks, I know diesel and I deal with it much more often than gas engines. With that said, you couldn't pay me to take a diesel for a pick up truck engine, especially a half ton. My Kenworth's are constantly in the shop with DEF issues, it makes it hard to pay the $5,000 a month payments when the truck is broken and in the garage once a week. My first DEF'er was a 2012, I have hated diesels with a passion since that point. We deleted two of them and got ratted out by childish competition, now it costed me 10k per truck to hook the DEF back up and now I have Junk that just costs you money again. The last 3 HD trucks have all been 6L gas engines to avoid "Green" diesels. With that said, the half ton is a 3L? light duty diesel engine. It likely wont be a power house and will be aimed at economy like the Ram and Ford engine. When you consider the up charge to move to diesel, the (usually) higher fuel cost, the added DEF fluid, and the known unreliability of the after treatment systems, it doesn't make a lot of sense economically. You would have to drive the truck for 6 years+ just for the diesel option to pay itself off given you have no issues with it. Until Trump smacks up the EPA (lucky Americans) and makes them realize DEF harms the environment more than it helps, I would personally stay away from them. Commercially, I have no choice and Cuckanada is too used to the new taxes and revenue these failing systems provide the Government. 

True,True great post......Diesel's are built for 1qty purpose if your not doing what a diesel is made for get a gasser.  I am just glad GM went after this market as 100K FERD/FIAT boys just left for GM....Yes, I believe a full model year production of 3.0 Inline Duramax's  could get to 100K

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dmorrisL86 Enthusiast

dmorrisL86

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Smart for GM to make an effort to stay competitive with Ford and the Italians over at Fiat. Glad the engine is made in America. Now the looks of the truck, I’m not too excited about. It looks like they took the front of the current tahoes and bolted it to the front of a truck, and the rest of the truck just looks like a Colorado to me. And I’ve never liked the Colorados. 

amxguy1970 Senior Enthusiast

amxguy1970

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My thought it you probably should have put this in the right forum...

 

Good idea, don't care where it is built as profits still go to the US. Will add sales and keep GM towards or at the top if all goes well. Won't need a diesel for myself even though I like the idea the added costs and everything else don't make sense to me financially.

 

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