Dave Packard
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That's why if you order a brand new pickup, it's going to cost you about $12,000 more to get a diesel than it will be a gasoline engine.
Not in an 08, no.
i bet you that was will be that was fucking that that was for the example not actual prices fuck the problem is dave knows the actual prices he does that is the biggest problem oh one excursion yes there is that difference between the v10 the v10 and then the 73 power stroke
Because the 7.3 was reliable.
In 08, I don't even think that they made an excursion in 08.
Because 08 was the year of... Right around the year of the 6.4 Powerstroke, which was their factory twin-turbo hot garbage chunk of shit.
And prior to that was the 6-0 power stroke was an even hotter dumpster fire.
Now, a bulletproofed, a true bulletproof 6-0 is almost impossible to beat.
$12,000.
And a lot of parts.
$12,000 worth of parts.
Yeah.
Diesels are just notoriously more expensive.
To buy, to purchase.
Okay.
Not only just for the cost of the engine and then the demand for a diesel versus a V10.
So there's that.
And then the cost of maintenance.
So if I had an injection pump go out, which is...
If I had a lift pump go out, a better replacement is about $1,200 for a fast fuel system.