1. the premium will be negated on resale when it's worth $3000 more than a gasser in 5-10years or buy the fuel savings which ever way you wan't to look at it. Even the Ford 6.0 which is considered a failure by most still has a higher resale than it's gas counterpart
2. Never heard of glow plugs being a maintenance item have put hundreds of thousands of miles on HD diesels and never had a problem anymore than a head gasket blowing or water pump failure on a gasser.
3. DEF if bought at truckstops is ~2.80/gal but lests say you buy those square boxes at the auto store is about 5.60/gal and you'll fill up 8 gal every 10k miles according to ram so 44.80 every fill up or $672 over 150,000 miles if $700 is a deal breaker over 5-10 years than you're cutting your costs way too close.
Gelling of diesel isn't really a problem until -10F to -20Fand even then in the winter months up north fuel stations switch to whats called #1 diesel which helps prevent that. Gelling and additives is mostly when people let their trucks sit for days or weeks without driving. so unless you see zero or sub-zero temps where you live ignore the gelling. It's for upper midwest and Canada
2. Never heard of glow plugs being a maintenance item have put hundreds of thousands of miles on HD diesels and never had a problem anymore than a head gasket blowing or water pump failure on a gasser.
3. DEF if bought at truckstops is ~2.80/gal but lests say you buy those square boxes at the auto store is about 5.60/gal and you'll fill up 8 gal every 10k miles according to ram so 44.80 every fill up or $672 over 150,000 miles if $700 is a deal breaker over 5-10 years than you're cutting your costs way too close.
Gelling of diesel isn't really a problem until -10F to -20Fand even then in the winter months up north fuel stations switch to whats called #1 diesel which helps prevent that. Gelling and additives is mostly when people let their trucks sit for days or weeks without driving. so unless you see zero or sub-zero temps where you live ignore the gelling. It's for upper midwest and Canada