I am looking at a 2008 6.7. I have owned a 2002 and a 2004 before and loved my 2004 and wish I never would have traded it off. Currently I own a 2005 6.6 Chevy Duramax and have only had it 4 month and am ready to go back to a Dodge. I have had over $4,000 in repairs just in 4 months and it only has 40,000 miles on it. I am looking at a new 2008 with a 6sp manual tran, long box, quad cab, and 4X4. The only thing that worry's me is the new emissions stuff. How bad is this stuff and is it worth buying a 2008?

 

If you really need a diesel...go for a 5.9 Cummins...However, fuel prices by 2012 are expected to be $7 a gallon. Do you really NEED all that power...if not , get a 4 cylinder pickup....and get into the habit of going slow. if you dont need a pickup, go for a very small engined car...I understand that next year Pontiac will come out with a 2 liter Turbocharged 4 cylinder with 270 HP, to get 30 mpg! Prepare for the worst!

 

Offtopic, thats $1000 a month, every 10000 miles. Weird how it worked out like that. sorry that it did of course, but my mind did math when I saw that, lol.

 

isnt that what the warranty is for? Im just curious.

 

Might not be the power train. I have never had a GM truck give me power train problems (completely opposite for their cars IME), but after four Chevy's... I had enough of the "other" stuff breaking. I wanted another Chevy/GMC so bad, but I just couldn't take any more unscheduled dealer visits.

Maybe someday I will go back to GM... I dig the new Camaro coming out. But right now, Dodge is doing a good job of converting me over. Maybe even to a Challenger instead. My grandfather is cursing me out in his grave right now.

 

you can get a system from badp to take care of the emissions stuff.

 

be ready to get crap milage!! right now I am getting about 14 hgwy

Chris

 

I love my 08, there are many people who don't like the emissions stuff, but the after market is making stuff to delete it and improve it. Lots of people are complaining the mileage sucks, but I am getting 18 to 20 hwy and 13 to 15.5 in the city. If you can afford a new rig I would say get one, if you are looking for used, stay away from the early 07.5 6.7's lots of people having issues.

 

I'm getting about the same milage, and loving the endless power!My brother has two 08 fords and finally admitted to me his are slugs. The gm buddies won't even talk about itDoes any one elses spin the tires when it shifts into second? If I let mine roll of the line barely giving it gas and then stand on it ,it will break free.I love it.

 

My 08 is my 5th deisel pickup. I had 90 model ford, 95 and 04 dodges and 04 durmax all were bought new. I like the 08 dodge better than all the others by far. The power is great,exhaust brake is real sweet and auto is better than I expected. I do a lot of interstate driving getting about 16 to 17 mpg. I sure hope deisel doesn't go to $7 a gallon. I believe that would break the US economy. Buy one you will love it.

Cole

 

Hopefully new techniques will enable us to extract the huge oil finds in ND and bring the money home to the good 'ol USA. The greens just dont get it that a transition to alternative forms of energy will take time. The infrastructure is already in place for oil and newer emission technology has yielded very clean operating vehicles. Even the Sierra Club has yielded and admits more nuclear plants must be built like(I hate to admit it)France. This would take the load off of fossil fuels now in use.

 

I have a family member who lives in France. He told me he is paying over $8 a gallon and is expecting $9 around the corner.

IMO, until hydrogen is developed as the mainstream fuel of choice for transportation, no amount of drilling will solve this problem over the long term.

Thanks to human nature, we're probably 25 years behind the curve.

 

How do you establish a curve for human nature?

25 years behind what, the alternate dimension who is 25 years ahead?

Personally, I think we are spending too much effort (energy) on reducing emissions on cars/trucks and not enough time on industrial plants, airplanes, and large ships.

Even worst when the economy sucks. Let's lower emissions (more cost, more fuel) while raw materials prices are soaring (more cost) and while we are at it let's increase the mandatory fuel economy (more cost).

We are going to cause our own recession.

 

The energy companies are doing nothing to increase supply - it does not serve their short term to do so. By choking supply, they have managed to increase the price of fuel. In the old days, FDR would have shot EXON down... With the oil companies having such a great impact on the US economy, there should be some government regulation or competition.

Now that we are in recession, the value of the dollar is in decline. This means that when competing against other currencies on the world market, a barrel of oil will cost us more. This increases prices further.

I don't know why the government does not step in...

 

I agree. The next pres will be ending the big oil tax breaks whether it's McCain or Hillobama