Justifying a cost of a diesel

fordmantpw · Jul 29, 2013

Diamondpilot said:
If during the period of no payments you pay yourself you are better off yet. I pay myself $400 a month per vehicle I have payed off. Then when its time to buy new I have 20 grand to put down. This way I can buy a new vehicle and have a 2 year payment with my trade and large down payment.

For example I have $19600 in my wifes car account. Its a 2007 BMW with 84,000 miles. I have it on CL for $18,250 so if I get my price I could buy her a bew $40,000 SUV cash.

Chris

Sounds like an excellent plan!

WilliamBos · Jul 29, 2013

Diamondpilot said:
If during the period of no payments you pay yourself you are better off yet. I pay myself $400 a month per vehicle I have payed off. Then when its time to buy new I have 20 grand to put down. This way I can buy a new vehicle and have a 2 year payment with my trade and large down payment.

For example I have $19600 in my wifes car account. Its a 2007 BMW with 84,000 miles. I have it on CL for $18,250 so if I get my price I could buy her a bew $40,000 SUV cash.

Chris

Thats my plan Chris. I am stuffing money away each month for a down payment, then once the truck is paid off, the same will happen again.

I will also do this during the payments too, just for a rainy day fund.

My 04 will be traded for the new truck, should get a few $$ for it.

Dave, it will have over 400,000 kms on it when I trade it. Would be higher, but the first owner did not drive it as much. (Was bought in 07 off lease) i put roughly 40,000 on a year. So, if your looking for a high mileage truck when I trade, I will give you the dealer info.

400,000 kms = 250,000miles.
40,000 = 25,000.

newbury · Jul 29, 2013

Diamondpilot said:
Gas today $3.39. Diesel $4.08 here. Makes me keep my F350 parked and I drive the Titan.

Chris

That's quite a spread.
There's a Pilot at 15151 W Commerce Rd, Daleville, IN, 47334 that Gasbuddy reports RUG at $3.55 and Diesel at $3.83 in the last 48 hours.

fordmantpw · Jul 29, 2013

It's $3.55 (gas) vs. $3.69 (diesel) here right now. Closest the two have been in quite some time.

suprnova · Jul 29, 2013

In the part of the world I'm in most of the time, gasoline is usually $0.80-$0.90/gal with diesel a dime or so less. No big...

Diamondpilot · Jul 29, 2013

newbury said:
That's quite a spread.
There's a Pilot at 15151 W Commerce Rd, Daleville, IN, 47334 that Gasbuddy reports RUG at $3.55 and Diesel at $3.83 in the last 48 hours.

Yes, maybe at the pilot. I work the opposite direction. That would be 13 mile round trip the opposite direction for me. That would take 1 gallon of fuel roughly in my trucks off setting any savings.

Chris

Scooby074 · Jul 29, 2013

Kimmo said:
I'll give you an example, after that you just smile for that diesel price and cost of driving

I live in northern europe, where distances are long and cars are easy way for the government to collect taxes.
If I buy a new car, I have to pay emissions based tax for the car, more it consumes, more I pay.

Example: Toyota Hilux Double cab pickup truck with 3.0 Diesel engine.
Price of the new car is 48000 USD. In addition, one has to pay emissions based tax of 29380 USD.

Then, one needs to pay yearly vehicle tax, which is also emissions based. Diesel is cheaper here than gas, so one needs to pay Diesel-tax too. These combined could be about 1000 USD per year for that example car.
And the price of the gas is about 8 USD per gallon and price of the dielsel is about 7.5 USD per gallon.

There is plenty of room to raise cost of ownership and cost of diesel where you live

I have to go back and re-read this post the next time I ***** about the cost of fuel and vehicles here in Canada.. $29000 in taxes

Diamondpilot · Jul 29, 2013

Diamondpilot said:
Yes, maybe at the pilot. I work the opposite direction. That would be 13 mile round trip the opposite direction for me. That would take 1 gallon of fuel roughly in my trucks off setting any savings.

Chris

I just had my buddy check, he was going that way. The diesel price was inline with what I saw. You are seeing the exempt truck price.

He could not remember the exact price but it was north of $4 per gallon. This exempt/non exempt thing and Gas Buddy has been a issue for a long time.

Chris

mikehaugen · Jul 29, 2013

I heard a couple days ago that the state of illinois does not allow ord to be sold at the pump anymore... gotta have it delivered. I guess this happened a while ago. No wonder I can't find it around here.