Sure, but have you ever priced a new ECU, or AFM, or idle valve, or ICU,
or OX sensor, or fuel pump, or..........

Lots of expensive parts we read about failing here every week on a
gasoline Vanagon. Not so many on a diesel.

Mark

Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote:
> Yes and when your injection pump needs rebuilding I will cost the equivalent
> of 250 gallons of fuel to get the whole job done, something a gasoline car
> doesn't' even have at all.  Nor does a gasoline car have a comparable
> expensive fuel system part that is a predictable major expense like a fuel
> injection pump rebuild.
>
> Fuel cost is only one part of the equation.
> Diesels cost more to get in the first place, and are often more expensive to
> repair.
> 'really fantastic fuel mileage' is just the short term immediate benefit,
> and not the whole story at all.
> I will grant you though, that counting all expenses from new purchase to say
> 200,000 miles the diesel will probably come out ahead on cost per mile
> compared to the gas car, but not by any astronomical amount like 60 % less
> over all or anything like that.   Maybe 25 % less over all long term, as a
> wild guess.
>
> Tell me about this 'diesel fuel is less than gas in the summer'
> .............
> I've noticed the fluctuation ( diesel in southern Oregon is more than
> premium gas right now, as it often is ) ........but not that is was less in
> the summer than gas.
> When did you first notice that,
> And why is that ?
> scott
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