Why Diesel is Better than Gasoline

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[SillyPuddy]

“It’s 85 degrees in here and I’m wearing a beanie cap bro, I know WTF I’m talking about.”

[jaxcell]

My Semi gets 42mpg, uphill loaded, with a sheared cam gear and costs half as much as a new Pickup truck.
See, I can make up stuff too.

[davidkeeton]

The biggest problem with diesels NOW and for the past 8-10 years is all the government regulations that have turned the engines into rolling air purifiers. The emissions system components are so prone to failure that they will break you. As a retired class 8 truck dealership partsman after 31 years, I can tell you the DPF and DEF systems are a financial nightmare to any and every truck owner, large or small business. Government mandated nightmare.

[cz]

After owning a diesel truck and dealing with all the headaches that come with it, especially the fuel filters, DEF, and anti-gel additives, gasoline is simply better unless you’re towing every day.

[powerwagon]

I bought a brand new Dodge Cummins in 2004, 20 years later and 298k miles on it the only engine work done is 2 water pumps and fuel injectors. It still operates like a champ and gets well over 20mpg.

[jamesraub]

As a semi truck driver who does 600+ miles a day they get about 7mpg they don't get better mpg than a small sedan

[mattjohnson]

"Design a failure point or one will be assigned to you"

Shearing gears absolutely happens my dude

[dakotahutchens]

These dude must be high to think a semi gets anywhere near the same mpg as any car or pickup truck

[georgefitter]

In Europe, the diesel is used more than the gas engine.

[beardotapeshoes]

They used the wrong comparisons. Liter for liter, cubic inch for cubic inch, diesels are more efficient than gasoline engines, and produce more torque doing it. All that means is you put a 2liter gasser up against a 2liter diesel. The diesel will get better fuel mileage and make more torque than the gasser. So this corresponds to better towing and mpg on the same sized specimen of each engine type. There’s a reason the 1.9l diesel VW’s get better fuel mileage than their gas option counterpart. People try comparing apples to oranges all the time. The average person would not benefit from a diesel bc the average person do not know the extra care that goes with keeping a diesel healthy. Gassers are harder to screw up by ignorance than diesels do. You fill a gas vehicle with diesel…. When It stops running and usually can be drained and filled with gas and be fine. A diesel filled with gas… when it stops running usually means an overhaul is in your future.

[jere]

Duramax and the 5.9 cummins are famous for shearing the timing gears. These guys are clowns

[jdr]

"it's going to have to shear the gears, which doesn't happen"

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[coltonmoore]

Timing gears can be used on gas engines, but theyre noisy and consumers dont like it so quiet belts or sort of noisy chains that everyone still complains about. Same issue happened when timing chains had nylon gears to be quiet on some 70s 80s models, chains would last and be quiet but the gears would get chewed apart.

[xdcoleus]

My best car purchase was BMW 328d. d standards for deisel. Sedan diesel. Bought at 2 K mileage. Now at 298 K. No engine or transmission issues ever. A lot of minor electronics problems but car runs good which I care only

[keithstewart]

I knew a man in his late 50s who had only had two vehicles his entire life since he was in high school...both VW diesels...they really run practically forever.

[caydenworley]

“No chain, No belt” Ford 3.0 power stroke would like a word one how you don’t make a diesel

[mattresspolice]

Dave's Auto will tell you the truth. The gears have pins that do actually sheer.

[jcodle]

Been driving big diesels for over 45 years. They're tight each one of my diesels made it over 900.000 miles.

[RandomRants]

I love how people online can talk with such conviction and not have a clue what ya talking about. The very 1st thing he said was wrong. Some diesel engines DO have cam chains.

[intimatespearfisher]

In Australia we prefer them for remote areas because
Water crossings ( no distributor)
Safer to carry extra fuel in jerry cans as it wont blow up.
Better low down torque for heavy hauling.
Low down torque is better for off roading