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Originally Posted by Zytek_Fan

Those MPG figures are pretty good for a pickup truck.

...although, once the Cummins 6.7L diesel is broken in, it can easily achieve that, while developing more power and torque

actually that motor is crap. and will get worse gas milage than that too.

one of my best friends bought an 05 cummins, 4 door fully loaded, short cab. I want to say it got around 23 when it was stock. He then put a banks power pda, speed loader, 6 gun, ram air intake and big ass stacks on it. He also put 35 inch mud tires on it at the same time. That thing made STUPID power and it also got around 25-28 mpg. Keep in mind it was a 6 speed tho.

Well he runs an excavating buisness and decided he couldn't haul all he wanted to in that truck as sweet as it was so he went out and bought himself an 08 6.7 blue tech cummins. 4 door, dually, and fully loaded. When he first got it we were all impressed with how quiet and smooth the thing was. woowwww.

but then it came time to do work and we quickly realized what a dog this new motor was. This thing is slower than molasses getting up to any speed. It tops out at 72 mph if your going down a hill with the wind to your back. Its rated to tow a shit ton, but you put a trailer with any weight on there and it just becomes a super dog. no power AT ALL. Not only that but the gas milage is abysmal. he averages about 15 mpg. best he has ever gotten is 19. pulling a trailer hes down to about 10-11 mpg. not to mention the 5 bucks a gallon you need to spend on the new type of diesel this things required to run on (low sulfur)

ok so granted the truck was still pretty new and not broken in yet but hes got a ton more miles on it now and it hasn't improved at all. He's ready to sell it and go back to an old school diesel. All these new regulations are killing diesel trucks. They are pure garbage now. You can't barely touch a single thing on your truck without voiding your warrantee. any improvement you want to make to the performance either costs ridiculous amounts of money and doesnt do a lot for you or you simply are just out of luck on any warrentee issues.

diesel trucks have gone the way of the 60's muscle cars. They were sweet and awesome for quite some time, then emissions regulations killed them.