Ecodiesels

[Silverhatch]

Was giving serious thought on getting a crewcab ecoboost F150. Now I'm leaning towards the ecodiesel Ram, mainly for the fuel economy. Anyone know anything about the reliability of these? Likes/dislikes? I'm gonna dd it.

[Ares]

We have a customer that works in oil industry. He has one and said in first year he had it. It was out for repair 6 months. Was first year of them so who knows.

[Mark Aubele]

I had one for 3 months. Nice truck, got about 19mpg driving back and fourth to work, 15 towing. If I babied it I was able to get 20 mixed city and highway, got 17 pulling 5k once. Power was adequate at best. Didn't have any real issues but trying to maintain 90mph pulling 5k back from Tennessee the check engine light would randomly come on. Quick visit to the forums will show tons of issues.

[Martin0660]

I also considered them when I was buying my Ram .... Saw some 1st year issues and went with the gas job.

[Mark Aubele]

They are really slow too. Think they run 16.9@80ish from the car rags. After driving any of the domestic gas offerings the slight advantage in fuel economy isn't really worth the cost IMO. It did tow nicely if you didn't need to tow quickly. With the 3.92s it was great at 64 mph. Any faster mpg dropped like a ****ing rock. Got like 12.5 coming back from Tennessee. My '15 Cummins pulled down 13 pulling 12k on the way to Summit point with the cruise on 75 and 12 driving like a ****ing dick trying to pass all the idiots on Harley's clogging up the left lane on the way back.

[Silverhatch]

I was reading the '14s had issues. I see people posting mpg in the low to mid 30's on the highway? ?

[PaxtonShelby]

The GM mini-diesel looked nice at the auto show. I sat in the crew cab GMC model. Not huge inside but really nice. Nice power. Good towing capacity. Pretty nice mileage. A buddy's father tried to get one but absolutely none were available anywhere and he wasn't in the mood to wait.

[Mark Aubele]

I was reading the '14s had issues. I see people posting mpg in the low to mid 30's on the highway? ?

They are full of shit. At 58 mph, on flat ground, the dash would read like 27-28. If you can drive like that for an entire tank I guess high 20s are possible, but around here I doubt even the slowest driver on earth would have a hard time doing better than 24 or so empty. And that is pushing it. Best tank I ever had was 20 acting like an egg was under the fuel pedal.

[Martin0660]

With the 3.92s it was great at 64 mph. Any faster mpg dropped like a ****ing rock.

in defense, my gas job is sort of similar ... Up to 65 mph it does ok on fuel and cruises right along ... My god from 67-70 the milage drops like a rock towing ...

We we went about 360 miles today, route 22, 220, and out I80. I hadn't checked milage in a while, ran almost all of it with the cruise on at posted speed limits and did right on 25 mpg with the air on and a couple hundred extra pounds coming home.

Foot note to that, my god was the police out today. We passed 8 on the way up, 6 on the way home. Half had someone pulled over.

[Mark Aubele]

in defense, my gas job is sort of similar ... Up to 65 mph it does ok on fuel and cruises right along ... My god from 67-70 the milage drops like a rock towing ...

We we went about 360 miles today, route 22, 220, and out I80. I hadn't checked milage in a while, ran almost all of it with the cruise on at posted speed limits and did right on 25 mpg with the air on and a couple hundred extra pounds coming home.

Foot note to that, my god was the police out today. We passed 8 on the way up, 6 on the way home. Half had someone pulled over.

They were all over the place on the way to Summit Point and back as well.

[mustang50lx]

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