The Top Five

   Wow who would have thought?

The votes are in, the numbers tallied, and the WINNERS announced:


The top 5 cheapest DIESEL trucks to own all hail from the same automaker.

     General Motors makes the top 5 cheapest DIESEL trucks to own.

   -- judged on their AVERAGE ANNUAL MAINTENANCE COSTS

   1st Place: Chevy Silverado 1500   $714 / mo.

   2nd Place: GMC Sierra 1500      $727 / mo.

   3rd Place: GMC Sierra 2500HD    $912 / mo.

   4th Place: Chevy Silverado 2500HD $936 / mo.

   5th Place: Chevy Silverado 3500    $1,109 / mo.

I find it very impressive that a Chevy Silverado 3500 ( 1 ton ) could

beat out the competition FORD and RAM 1500 Series ( 1/2 ton )

And as everybody knows, the GM Duramax Diesel requires DEF

    CONGRATULATIONS GENERAL MOTORS -- JOB WELL DONE

Gary

Are you actually suggesting that the vote might be a little bit one-sided ?

   Nooooooooooo   they wouldn't do that, would they?

I have a cousin that has one of the 1500's with a diesel engine, who would probably not agree with your "poll".  

Edited by WF owner - 10 Feb 2025 at 6:37am

I had a 1989 F250.. drove it 250K miles and sold..... bought a 2001 F150 and drove it 250K miles and sold.... Bought a 2002 F150 and drove it 250K miles and sold... have a 2013 now with 100K miles.......... Never have had much problems, thats why i keep driving them ..... 97K km is NOTHING..( thats 60K miles .... i dont consider a truck even broke in untill it hits 150,000. )

Edited by steve(ill) - 10 Feb 2025 at 8:46am

Never Green

How about you start over by going back and reading the Post from the beginning.

Clearly stated at the beginning, Pick-up Trucks with Diesel Engines.

Nothing to do with Gas Engines.

But yes you are correct. GM does have an issue with there 6.2 litre Gas Engine that was used in Sierra and Silverado Pick-up Trucks.

I believe I read somewhere that the Oil Supply to a Crankshaft Bearing is somehow related to the Engine Ignition switching to only 6 cylinder or 4 cylinder modes.

Trying to figure out your question about High School.

Were you thinking of going back and continuing in to High School?

Bet it would do you a lot of good.

G

More like Jr High now convinced.  HAS NO CLUE as to What engines and what sizes unless moves to WIKI to find them, and then trusts the CONS at WIKI that were proved NOT Experts but Opinion based References.

Ah the February doldrums. Long winter. Cabin fever. Bored. I KNOW! Let’s start a truck argument!!!

pick on TDS Garee ???  Not needed... Your ignorance puts you in the spot light every day... Go drink some ANTIFREEZE .... and get that STARTER PUSH BUTTON installed !!  

Gary wrote: Yup TBone I would agree with you 100% Dave and Steve in the Snow Belt all cooped up and bored. So for entertainment decided "lets pick on Gary" -- even though this is not even the So-Called Political section. I'll bet Darrin is really pleased with the way his Forums have evolved. Me on the other hand, no chance of Boredom here. Spending the Winter down South on the shores of the GULF OF MEXICO. Less than 100 feet from an MT Sandy Beach. Have had days of setting record highs in the 80's G

Can still remember the Mid to Late 70s GMs, rusted so bad could HEAR them corrupt at night, my 1977 K20 had ZERO paint remaining in 1979 on the underside of the bed and was beginning to crumble away.  The 350 in it ran great, only ate a quart of oil between 3000 mile changes since Day One, terrible Valve Guide Seals in those days.

Edited by DMiller - 11 Feb 2025 at 4:47pm

Gary are those figures cost of buying the truck and maintenance for a certain time period? Or just maintenance costs? 

Or maybe Ford doesn't want to have their customer's vehicles for four months waiting for parts. It's pretty easy to have low operation costs when the truck is setting broken down on the dealer's lot. They don't use much fuel sitting on the lot.

Curt

You could have a good point there.

Looks like L'il Stevie liked it anyway.

Apparently they give real good milage when they do run.

My Salesman told me one time about driving one to Montreal and back.

Averaged over 30 M/G

G

Yes they do get that mileage when driving empty at steady speed and not towing!!! Some good info here but too bad that some want to make this into some kind of peeing contest! I thought this was a fun site but seems that some now are on some sort of personal vendetta. What is that about???? 

I agree with you 100% Curt.

And I can tell you exactly when it started.

It started a few months back when SteveILL replied to a New Member who posed a

question about replacing the seals in the double acting cylinders from a 400 Series Loader.

SteveILL replied and went in to great detail about replacing the Chevron Seals in a typical WD loader, unscrewing the large cast end, removing the Chevron seals etc. etc.

I replied and pointed out to Steve he was totally wrong in what he posted and the 400 Series were nothing like the WD cylinders.

I believe I made some comment pertaining to how important it was to know what your talking about and even having experience in what you are talking about.

Well that didn't go over well with Stevie and that is when the name calling and ignorant comments started.

Over time the select few regulars from the Politics started to join in with their similar comments.

Another of my comments that instigated even more was when I replied to one of Steves comments to another New Member that the D-10 and D-12 basically replaced the Model B

When I pointed out that I thought he was wrong and there were many other Allis Model Tractors in between.

This is the way I recall the progression, but you can expect SteveILL to come back with a totally different response.

Sincerely

Gary Soper
Peterborough, Ontario
CANADA