05-09-2024, 01:06 PM | #43 | |
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We had a 2018 GMC Terrain with the 1.5 and the 9 speed auto (nice combo by the way, although pretty slow off the line) and it regularly returned well over 30mpg combined in that thing with our type of driving, which is a combination of city, highway, and some paved country roads.
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05-09-2024, 01:12 PM | #44 | |
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05-09-2024, 01:48 PM | #45 | |
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I've never heard of one clogging with regular use and regen cycles. Maybe early in a model cycle, GM has adjusted the regen frequency but that was a long time ago. The DPF is post-manifold as is "DEF". The additional equipment for the engine is the addition of an EGR, similar to how gas engines have had EGR for a long time. In the last 10 years I've had a GM 2.8 LWN diesel and a 2021+ Cummins B9. Also a 6.6 2006+ LLY Duramax with DPF, but that was pre-SCR. |
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05-09-2024, 02:39 PM | #46 | |
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https://youtu.be/sdidfssA6dA?si=9TMGDK-DWM2cWvb9 You might be having good luck or the way you drive and maintain your vehicles is excellent. Not doubting that. But in general, for the mass market and commercial, diesel has become untenable. Especially for a business.
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05-09-2024, 02:54 PM | #47 | |
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Otherwise, companies seem to be surviving just fine with millions of heavy diesel semi-tractors and medium duty trucks on the road with billions of miles driven on diesel engines with DPF, SCR, and EGR. I wonder what their secret is to keeping their fleets on the road. Modern commercial trucks are pretty reliable to start with. |
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05-09-2024, 03:39 PM | #48 | |
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Probably a big contributor to the fact truckers wages are down from what they used to be. https://www.fenderbender.com/running...e-to-customers
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05-09-2024, 04:46 PM | #49 | |
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05-10-2024, 07:14 AM | #50 | |
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05-10-2024, 07:37 AM | #51 | |
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Highway. I drive a lot for work. By grandpa had a 1990's Olds 98 and he got 31MPG in that thing! |
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05-10-2024, 07:55 AM | #52 |
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Damn that's what my Bronco gets and its shaped like a brick.
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05-10-2024, 08:30 AM | #53 | |
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Not only did the full-size H and C-body 3800s routinely get over 30 MPG highway, so did LS1 equipped Corvettes and F-Bodies. My Dad was from Greenville SC, and when I was a kid we always drove down from Cleveland for a couple weeks in summer in my Mom’s ‘88 Delta 88. Through the ups and downs of the Smokies all along I-77. she always reset the trip odometer when filling up and she routinely got 450+ miles when it was time to fill up at just before the low fuel light came on.
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05-10-2024, 01:24 PM | #54 | |
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It reminds me in size of an S10 Blazer and feels about as fast too. Those old 4.3's guzzled fuel, all wheezing 190hp. Mine only got 16-17 mpg even when it was fairly new. |
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05-10-2024, 02:25 PM | #55 |
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Companies have profit margins to maintain. This just gets passed on to the customer and contributes to inflation.
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05-10-2024, 06:31 PM | #56 |
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Equinox and S10 Blazer are apples and oranges. A friend of mine used his S-Blazer in heavier snow storms or to tow his 240Z. My S10 pickup was easily better on fuel unloaded. He hated the Equinox he had for a bit.
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