Ican’t seem to buy vehicles without a diesel anymore. Before I ramble on here since I’m going to be talking about a couple “unconventional diesels”, know that I have had my 7.3L Ford since 2002, daily drove it for 18-years, not so much a daily anymore, but it takes care of all my truck needs, racing, hauling or towing. These little diesels I’ve gotten into are just supplementing my diesel fleet.
A few years ago, in search of a better daily driver, I bought a 2011 335d (“d” for diesel) BMW. Amazing car, super-fast, handles great, and is capable of 40+ MPG. Now, before buying it, I knew that these cars had serious maintenance issues in stock form. The PCM fails commonly, intake carbon build up is excessive, valve cover gasket fails over pressurizing the crank case, swirl flaps can fall into the valves, harmonic balancers fail, urea system is problematic, vacuum lines crack, it goes on from there. My diesel addiction helped me look past all that as, when you get the issues fixed, like I said, it’s an AMAZING car. I just sold it, drove it cross country several times, towed a boat home on one of those trips, raced it a bunch, loved that car, it’s one I’ll always miss, I’ll likely get another one someday.
In with the new. 2020 Jeep Wrangler. 3.0L Single Turbo V6 diesel. 260 Crank HP, 442 Torque, stock.