Diesel fuel at Sam's Club

[RalphVa]

I'm still waiting for a small diesel pickup. The Colorado will have one shortly, but they're pretty hefty at about 3,900 # for an extend cab one. Dodge Ram 1500 has one, too, but its even heavier at around 4,500 #. These would barely beat my Tacoma at fuel mileage (26.5 mpg now).

Waited 25 years for Benz to give us another stick shift diesel sedan. They STILL don't have one (the C class diesel in Europe is very much like the VW Jetta). Finally bought a Jetta TDI in the fall of 2009 and love it. Very capable car. Only one I've owned that'll go from Va to OH over those mountains and never can tell they're there. This year's Jetta's TDI engine has been totally reworked to give 46 mpg highway. If I had plenty of money to burn, I'd take our present TDI to a body shop and see if they could slap a pickup bed in the back in place of the back seat and trunk and buy a new TDI. To me, that would be the ideal small pickup.

We recently fueled up 3 times in a row at Kroger diesel but experienced an icing problem one morning. I put a light by the fuel filter for about an hour. Started then and stayed running. I ran it over to the Exxon station by the interstate and topped it off. No more ice. Only have water in diesel one time in 31 years of driving our 240D.

Ralph

 

[dusty3030]

The Kroger I buy my diesel at the big trucks can fit under but the turn is too tight with a trailer. There is ALWAYS one filling up, they go drop their trailer in the main parking lot and go through and fill up, grab their trailer and get back on I 40.

Same story at the Murphy / Wal Mart right down the road from this Kroger.

 

[Jim Nelson]

I'm still waiting for a small diesel pickup. The Colorado will have one shortly, but they're pretty hefty at about 3,900 # for an extend cab one. Dodge Ram 1500 has one, too, but its even heavier at around 4,500 #. These would barely beat my Tacoma at fuel mileage (26.5 mpg now).

Waited 25 years for Benz to give us another stick shift diesel sedan. They STILL don't have one (the C class diesel in Europe is very much like the VW Jetta). Finally bought a Jetta TDI in the fall of 2009 and love it. Very capable car. Only one I've owned that'll go from Va to OH over those mountains and never can tell they're there. This year's Jetta's TDI engine has been totally reworked to give 46 mpg highway. If I had plenty of money to burn, I'd take our present TDI to a body shop and see if they could slap a pickup bed in the back in place of the back seat and trunk and buy a new TDI. To me, that would be the ideal small pickup.

We recently fueled up 3 times in a row at Kroger diesel but experienced an icing problem one morning. I put a light by the fuel filter for about an hour. Started then and stayed running. I ran it over to the Exxon station by the interstate and topped it off. No more ice. Only have water in diesel one time in 31 years of driving our 240D.

Ralph

Toyota used to build a little truck called a Lite Ace but I don't think it's still in mfg. There are still some around though. I would love to have one.

 

[3930dave]

Ralph - Nissan is talking about dropping a Cummins into the Frontier.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/trailers-transportation/288903-compact-diesel-trucks-we-cant-23.html

Everybody - make some noise on that Nissan page, if you want to see a Cummins Frontier :thumbsup:.

Rgds, D.

 

[Btown]

Yes the last I heard the VW was available in most of the country but not in Calif. at least a couple of years ago when we were shopping.There have been some real advancements across the pond but for some reason most of them don't get here and I suspect it's politics behind it.They let the older Mercedes in for years even when they were pretty dirty or at least I've seen a lot of them smoking pretty good. I guess we'll see.

That must have been a while ago. The 2009 VW Jetta TDI was the first 50 state legal diesel from VW since about 2003 when several states banned new sales CARB states( I think there was like 5 states in CARB) . But most of those states u could bring in a used one after a certain time . So any TDI newer than 2006. VW didn't make any TDI's in 2007 and 2008 for the U.S. Is 50 state legal. For VW that would be the Passat, Jetta, Golf, Beetle and Taureg TDI's.

 

[California]

Couple of questions:

Did Mahindra ever resume plans to sell a light diesel pickup here? Last I heard, they claimed their internal testing attained conformance with air quality standards. Then at the same time they disbanded the network of dealers they had arranged contracts with - which led to lawsuits. Does anyone have a clearer picture?

And - seems to me with diesel prices now higher than gasoline (due to new specs needing more refining) that this price increase negates the cost advantage of better mileage. Add the additional cost of fancy and frequent oil changes for modern diesel cars, VW in particular, and the only advantage that remains for a diesel may be performance. Comments?

 

[Jim Nelson]

That must have been a while ago. The 2009 VW Jetta TDI was the first 50 state legal diesel from VW since about 2003 when several states banned new sales CARB states( I think there was like 5 states in CARB) . But most of those states u could bring in a used one after a certain time . So any TDI newer than 2006. VW didn't make any TDI's in 2007 and 2008 for the U.S. Is 50 state legal. For VW that would be the Passat, Jetta, Golf, Beetle and Taureg TDI's.

You're right,guess I'm getting old,when we were looking was when we bought my wife's new car in 2007. Seems like just the other day.Time flies when you're having fun.

 

[Milo]

And - seems to me with diesel prices now higher than gasoline (due to new specs needing more refining) that this price increase negates the cost advantage of better mileage..... Comments?

It's only going to get worse.

"The shipping industry is going to drive up diesel prices massively this year, due to new emissions regulations coming into effect for 2015. Ships travelling within 200 miles of shore in North America and the Baltic and North seas must limit sulfur emissions from fuel to 0.1%, down from 1%; this means switching from bunker and fuel oil to ULSMD. No new refineries are being built in the US or Canada in the next 5 to 7 years, so distillate production is pretty much fixed for the short term. Platts is forecasting a 75% increase in demand for ULSD over the next 20 years."


Low Sulphur Fuel - Hapag-Lloyd


When the bunker fuel pool cleans up, it will be good ol