Re: Powerstroke or Cummins?

Posted by bbott on November 10, 2001 at 08:34:20 from (206.13.45.158):

In Reply to: Powerstroke or Cummins? posted by Shopping on November 09, 2001 at 09:15:47:

Drive 'em both, buy the one you like based on drivability. That said, here's a ramble based on my experiences.

Over the years, I have driven both the Powerstroke and the Dodge Cummins quite a bit.

Here's my observations.

1) Drivability. The powerstroke is as responsive as a gas engine. You romp on it and it goes, right now. Has a very wide powerband, starts pulling at 1000 rpm and doesn't quit till it hits the rev limiter.. (if you're silly enough to push it that far)

The Dodge has a much 'shorter' operating range, with an old-fashioned diesel feel.

If you have a manual transmission in a Dodge, and you are not on the freeway all the time, you'll wear your clutch pedal and left leg out in short order. If it's an automatic it won't bother you, but you'll give up 3 to 5 mpg.

2) Quality of the rest of the vehicle. A few months before I bought my own Powerstroke, a contractor friend bought a new Dodge Cummins. The engine ran fine, but within a few weeks bits and pieces literally started falling off the truck. He got rid of it and got a Ford.

That said, another friend bought a Dodge Cummins last summer and it's been fine in the quality department. Nothing has fallen off.

However, he does regret buying it, based on the drivability issue alone.

Other comments:

ALL of these modern engines are now as complicated as the space shuttle. Computerized, sensorized, enough wiring to light up the Golden Gate Bridge.

Unless you invest in the computers necessary to diagonse them, you're pretty much limited to changing filters and fluids.

Given proper care, and a smidgen of luck, both the Dodge and Ford engines will go 400,000+ miles before a rebuild.

They are both well-refined and comfortable vehicles.

Chevy duramax ? I just don't know. Such a new engine, it may be a great one, it may fail.

Drive, buy what feels good.

bb

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