The diesel /petrol question

Although diesel is much dearer than unleaded petrol you go a helluva lot further on a litre of diesel than a litre of petrol!!!
Just keep telling yourself this!!!

There's plenty of threads about this...

I previously had a Prado V6 120 5 spd auto, wonderful to drive, but the fuel gauge dropped like a lead brick and I used to drive holding my breath. Now I have a Prado d4d t/diesel 6spd manual, I am much more relaxed driving it as the fuel guage never seems to move, 2000 km on 180 litre tanks. Bugger the rest, I now enjoy my relaxed drive !!!
I love the manual 6 spd, the diesel has huge torque, meaning hardly needs gearchange, although I like a manual, the 5 spd auto was great but not my cup of tea.

Cheers

puttputt

Just my point of view, previous threads have previous points of view, new threads have fresh points of view

Hi

I'm probably going to cop some abuse, but it really depends what you want to do.

If you tow or live in the sand dunes, then diesel is the way to go.

If you're driving around town mainly and want to keep up with traffic without producing black clouds, then get a petrol and stick it on gas - Just ensure you have a LPG compliant motor, as you may be up for an expensive head rebuild 20,000km down the track.

I've got a petrol hilux on LPG and it's great for what I want. Although I had a head rebuild for an unrelated event, it now costs half as much to run on gas than petrol. I usually run petrol about 20% of the time when just going to the shop or while the motor is warming up.

There is now a diesel/LPG conversion that can be done, so this brings in the best of both worlds. Just read up about anything first though.

Cheers, Will.

This is somewhat like a Holden V Ford debate ;-) You'll never get a diesel driver to change their mind.. LOL

I've been reading the threads lately about people just back from their winter break, "did 8-10 thousand K's and spent 3-4 thousand dollars on diesel..." OUCH!!

Well, I just got back from MY winter break. Did just over 7000K in my duel fuel Paj, most of it on LPG, for a cost of approx $1200 in fuel. I know which bill I'd sooner be paying ;-)

yep, I find myself, right now, in a position to change vehicles... I struggle to believe that I am considering a Petrol 200 series.... However the company car will be turned over in 3 or 4 years (just like the current one)... Big difference in purchase price, I just don't know which way to go...

(a year ago I would never have even considered a petrol!)

People have a short memory.....three weeks ago the difference between petrol and diesel at the pump was 15 cents a litre.

It seems people think it will never get that high agin.

You are trying to determent the future with something that has such a variable.

LPG sounds good over petrol or diesel.

There are so many good and bad points about each type of fuel so trying to get the right answer is imposable, not one fuel will suit everyone.

Would I by another diesel YES!

Despite the claim that a diesel engine will return greater economy than a petrol engine, the initial cost is far greater, the service costs greater - owing to the frequency etc, the fuel is more costly so just where are these 'savings' that owners of diesels continually rant on about?
I suspect that many diesel powered vehicles are now regretting their decision to buy such powered vehicle. Many of them will now put up any arguement they can in order to justify their acquisitions. Some decisions made are good, others are bad, some we can do nothing about and others we just have to learn to live with.
The discussion diesel v petrol has been done to death. Time to move on.

I think it all depends on where you intend to go and the availability of the fuel of your choice in these areas.

Modern diesel engines are very efficient and diesel is almost always available even in remote areas. Petrol usually is and LPG almost certainly won’t be.

Local servo....40 cents difference between petrol and diesel.

Saw a servo on way home.......41 cents difference.

That is getting ridiculous.

My diesel 4WD sits in the garage as it is cheaper to drive my 2WD petrol work ute.

Cost me $60 to to a Melb to Adelaide trip 3 weeks ago. Gotta love LPG.
I think in an ideal world we would have a diesel that sat in the shed for 11 months a year and we got out when doing our remote travel, and in between we would drive gas vehicles around with smiles on our dials.

I think you are all forgetting that Petrol vehicles are rated much lower in their towing ability.
I have a diesel Navara 3.0lt and can legally tow 3 tonne. If I had got a 3lt petrol motor I would be limited to 2 tonne. I would have to get a smaller van. More cost to own a petrol!

Ian