Petrol or Diesel ???

How long is a piece of string?

What do you want to do with the truck?

Diesels last longer, are cheaper to maintain, go MUCH further on a tank of fuel.. SOME petrols HATE water.. no sparkplugs etc on a Diesel. But diesels HATE water even more when sucked into the motor. you will destroy it in a Diesel, where a petrol MAYNOT die.

Again, more info on what youwant.

also search the archives, its been done 2903482304892040234890293802590190578901237859078 times before.

A very interesting discussion took place some weeks ago regarding this topic. In the end, it depends on a lot of variables.

If you search diesel and/or petrol, you will most likely find the thread.

I'm a diesel man, but there are petrol men out there as well. I'm avoiding completely answering your question as GO_OFF...road loves petrols and we will all be wrong who answer diesel.

Diesels are great for water crossings as long as you get clean dry air to the motor whilst crossing. If you don't, they hydrolic and cost alot more to fix than a petrol motor that swallows water. If you cross with a petrol, fit a plastic sheet to form a bow wave in front and prevent water from pouring in on the spark plugs and electricals.

In the end, I would always go diesel soley for reliability and ease of servicing.

Cheers mate, and good luck.

This answer is a little left field.

Went through some rough country, and 2 of the jerries in the back leaked. I run a diesel, if it was petrol, I would have been chroming big time!

Now, down side? Okay..... when you fill it up at the bowser, you always get smelly hands!

Not what you really wanted to know, but hey....... it's the truth, and guess what..... EVERYONE would agree with the 2 things I just pointed out!

I run both, but I do prefer my diesel.............. just because......... no reason..........

Cheers

Wolfie

I'm getting a 4.2 auto turbo diesel. Need it for trips - 3 kids a bigger now and the Falcon is uncomfortable for them + gear.

However for the 1 000 X 1-5 km trips done by the spouse each day the petrol shopping trolley works best. Can't believe the number of short trips that car does every day!

I am quite happy with it.

Ground clearance is an issue I'm dealing with at the moment, but everything else is fine.

I would put it in the same category as say a Pajero as far as specs go.

Try this site... Delica Club

Cheers

Wolfie

Gidday,What would you prefer.The beautiful aroma of a magnificent diesel or the pungent rotten egg stink of a unleaded fuel guzzling petrol motor.
You choose
Seeya Locallaw

No.1 for me was diesel is generally avlb at more remote places.
Cheaper economy, although dearer than petrol at the moment.
and it's the 'workhorse' feel.

Hi Mark, I have a Turbo diesel Jackaroo and a mate has a petrol Jackaroo, the diesels develope there power and torque at different revs then the petrol, making your choice of petrol over diesel a personel decision on the type of driving you want to do, if there is no other reason to chose one over the other.
I chose a diesel for 1) economy 2) ease of servicing.
My friend frequently uses 5 litres of fuel per 100 k's more than me, so at todays prices to do the same driving that can be $6 per 100 k's more for the same distance.
Servicing I believe is easier because for routine servicing it is simply a matter of changing the oil and filter, admittably though the diesel usually has its oil changed a bit more frequently, but no spark plugs to worry about, and on some of todays petrol V6's you have to remove the intake system to change 3 of the plugs. It only needs to be done at 100,000 K's but the plugs are $25-$30 plus labour.
One over thing to consider is, todays diesels are much easier to drive and sometimes you would not even know you are driving a diesel.
Hope this in some ways helps,
Will

If you want to tow a heavy tralier over 100kph then yes get a larger petrol or a very large TDI .However towing under 1200 kg it starts to get murky.

this arguement been going on since some one got pushed of a boat many years ago.{france to usa want it?}

Fact diesels cost more.
Fact price of Diesel costs more.
Fact Diesels cost more to service and you do it more offen.
Fact water into a diesel motor will destroy it with bent rods snpped crankshfts and broken pistons.
Fact diesels are noisey and smelly to fuel up.
Fact with comon rail injection new diesels ave the same new electrics as found in petrols to break down now.
Fact diesel are underpowered and slow.

Fact I love my oily smelly slug of a Diesel.

shadow

I went through this for about a year and couldn't make my mind up.

Eventually I did the raw calculations and ignored emotions.

If you do the calcs the petrol makes more sense.

Example:

1999 GXL LC100

Petrol A$35k, 18 l/100km, A$1/litre
Diesel A$42k, 12 l/100km, A$1.10/litre

It takes about 100,000 km until they are equal in expenditure and that's not counting the 10,000 km services for petrol and 5,000 km services for diesel!

I do 25,000 km a year - I'd never be finished servicing the bloody thing!!!

Plus I do 99% onroad mileage and the wife does 80% of that and she'd only fill a diesel up with petrol!!!

QED.

And if your in Melb, you will be paying about 9c a litre more for diesel currently, which would mean on a average cruiser fill [150lt] you get about 14 lt more fuel for your money.

So if you got a 4.5 petrol cruiser, spent purchase price saving on unichip tune, the average consumption seems to be around 15lt per 100km from owners, which means 150 lt would give you 1000km. [20lt per 100 km standard would be 750km]

If you have a gu/gq, td cruiser, 1hz or factory turbo 12lt per 1000km is going to be the average, at least, [probably more like 13-15lt] which means 1250km from 150 lt.

Add another 14lt in price difference here is another 90km, which makes 140km per 150 lt difference, then you have to service the diesel cruiser every 4 150lt tank fulls, compared to every 8 150lt tank fulls on the petrol, so if we add a $230 service on to the 600km further you travelled, which is about 80 lt, or $90 in fuel, between services, that means there is about $50 advantage to the petrol at the 10k service, and if you then do the sums on a dist cap, leads and 2 sets of plugs [$400] vs scheduled pump and injector servicing at 100k [$2000-3000] on top of the $50 x 10 to 100k you have saved on running/servicing, and minus the interest,a nd extra money you paid to get the diesel, then long term the No's will always stack the petrol to be better off.

Then, if we took the diesel turbo and intercooler they use to get them to perfom 3/4 like a petrol, and added them to the petrol motor, then we have diesel economy, and unmatched performance.

Did you know a 4.5 petrol 100 series motor makes more torque at 800rpm, than a 1hz diesel cruiser engine makes in total?