As someone who took a bath on an Ecodiesel I recommend running away from them as fast as possible. I just dumped that thing for the identical truck with a HEMI and will never look back. All the tuning you have to do with the Ecodiesels just to get them to run halfway decent is a pain because the US government won't let you get tunes from inside the country. i had nothing but recall after recall with it, and everyone of them didn't have a solution when they released the recall. On top of that every recall could have resulted in a deadly fire or crash with the vehicle. The motors are Italian made. can you say FIAT?
Ya know...Fiat OWNS Ram...right? So if your truck is a 2015 or newer....Fix it again Tony!
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There is so much misinformation in this thread alone (not this specific post!) about the ecodiesel.
-Yes, there are lots of EGR issues, mostly the fact that FIAT can't provide them fast enough.
-Yes, about 5% of them blow out the bottom end...and almost every time the owner gets a new engine with no further troubles.
-No, FCA did not buy VM Motori (not Motoroni!) because the started using their 3.0L TurboDiesel. Fiat owned part of VM already and GM owned the other part. GM originally used that same engine in European Cadillacs, but abandoned that plan when Diesel fell out of favor in Europe, so they sold their share to FIAT...now known as FCA.
FWIW I have 220,000 almost trouble free miles on my EcoDiesel...and for me the economics work very well. The only real added cost is DEF which is consumed at roughly 800-1000mpg. Oil changes are a wash, as the EcoD specifies Full Synthetic every 10K miles. Yes it costs more, but you change it half as often as a gasser...a wash. AND...there are so many more examples of folks that use the EcoDiesel for it's intended purpose with no more trouble then anyone else and have way over 100K miles.
For the record, I am NOT suggesting everyone buy an EcoDiesel...hardly...only those for which it really makes sense. Based on my experience I would have suggested to the OP to buy EXACTLY what he bought...the V6 gasser, as it seems to make the most sense for HIM and his specific needs. In fact, that may be my next move as my 52Kmiles/year average will be dropping in the coming years, which may dissuade me from another diesel. It always bothers me when people respond to requests for advice like the OP did where they say something like "Ive had good luck with X, so buy X", or "my brother in law had and X and it sucked, so buy anything but the X". This is not helpful...the guy is asking for advice for his specific use case...so if you can't offer that sort of specific advice...
