2.7 EcoBoost for towing? Anybody have one and can comment?

[ray1970]

Even your old Cummins probably costs double to maintain compared to a gasser. What?s that thing hold? Fifteen quarts of oil? Also, I?m coming up on 125K miles and haven?t touched my fuel filter yet. Can any diesel go that long without a fuel filter?

And like you mentioned the newer ones require you to buy special bottled urine to dump in the exhaust. What does that stuff cost?

[MED]

Even your old Cummins probably costs double to maintain compared to a gasser. What?s that thing hold? Fifteen quarts of oil? Also, I?m coming up on 125K miles and haven?t touched my fuel filter yet. Can any diesel go that long without a fuel filter?

And like you mentioned the newer ones require you to buy special bottled urine to dump in the exhaust. What does that stuff cost?

The oil changes are more expensive because I use 3x the oil. which I do myself so not that bad...$70ish. Fuel filters are cheap; I change it once a year along with the rest of my vehicles both gas and diesel. The cost isn't that much especially compared to the maintenance costs of timing belt replacements, sensor issues, etc. Over the long haul, the service life on my 5.9 is vastly longer than a gas V8...I'll be dead and buried long before my truck. The new diesel issues really revolve around the EGR (soot recirculation) system, which does a lot of damage to the engine resulting in really high failure rates and high repair costs...really sucks because otherwise they are pretty cool. I would be annoyed about the DEF too; that's a stupid cost. It's no wonder why so many people disable all that junk.