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Does anybody have any regrets for NOT getting a Diesel?

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Got a Rubicon Recon, really like it but thinking with the amount of driving I do perhaps I should have gotten a diesel? Anybody else?
Nope. For $everal rea$ons. But no regrets, at all.
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I owned a Mercedes diesel a long time ago. It satisfied my curiosity.
 

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My biggest fear is emissions-not the motor. I owned several diesel vehicles and have seen " The Vehicle will not start in 200 miles" message on the dashboard multiple times. Emission systems are expensive to repair. Still considering getting one though.
 

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My biggest fear is emissions-not the motor. I owned several diesel vehicles and have seen " The Vehicle will not start in 200 miles" message on the dashboard multiple times. Emission systems are expensive to repair. Still considering getting one though.
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The Diesel does get a better transmission as well. I hade a Grand Cherokee Ecodiesel, and the problems and recalls were a deterrent from owning another one. If FCA had chosen a quality diesel engine, I would have chosen that, but since they stuck with the VM Motori POS, I wouldn't consider it even if it didn't cost more
 

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Got a diesel, and love it. In fact, after driving all the engines, it was diesel or nothing. Towing a boat with 440+tq is easy. Pulling out into traffic is easy. and being different than the other 5000 jeeps in a 5-mile radius is just icing on the cake.

As far as "issues" - every single car I've owned (minus the 66 Mustang I had from 1992-95) had its share of "issues". And, frankly, all of the issues were <1% making waves.

"The LS1 has rear cylinder cooling problems!" - Road raced, autox'd, and daily drove mine for 6 years and never had a single problem. When pulling the engine for mods, all the cylinders looked identical.

"The L76 engine (LS2 with cylinder deactivation) has bad lifters and will cause problems." - Drove mine 137k (hard) miles with 0 issues.

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We live far from the city at high altitude, so I was considering trading in for a diesel to get better mpg and TQ (n/a motors take a big hit up her at 7,700ft). After driving a new rubicon gladiator diesel, I decided it gave up too much of the playfulness of the wrangler 3.6l. Plenty of power, but it felt big and heavy. I love tossing the JLUR around in the dirt too much. I guess if you are one of those expedition gear dudes that load the crap out of your truck, it would be a good decision.
The pentastar/8 spd/4.10s are such a great combo.
 

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okay...I need a re-rack on the ā€œbadā€ mpg. Iā€™m a child of the 70ā€™s and no stranger to 12-15 mpg in our station wagon on family vacations. Also, recall the ā€™90ā€™s in 27-30ā€™s in my Honda. Iā€™m getting 20-ish, mostly city, mpgā€™s with the 3.6 manual transmission. Is that bad? please tell me if I should be outraged. Because as of now, Iā€™m not...except that Iā€™m no longer sitting ā€œtail gunnerā€ on family vacations.
 

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Iā€™ve embraced the attitude that more torque just means more broken parts offroad. If the 3.6 can bend axle splines, I donā€™t need more torque.
 

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okay...I need a re-rack on the ā€œbadā€ mpg. Iā€™m a child of the 70ā€™s and no stranger to 12-15 mpg in our station wagon on family vacations. Also, recall the ā€™90ā€™s in 27-30ā€™s in my Honda. Iā€™m getting 20-ish, mostly city, mpgā€™s with the 3.6 manual transmission. Is that bad? please tell me if I should be outraged. Because as of now, Iā€™m not...except that Iā€™m no longer sitting ā€œtail gunnerā€ on family vacations.
Watch the TRL and the trailrecon test drive the new 392 hands down the best Wrangler out there with one exception 10 miles a gallon is what they were claiming while off-roading on stock 33 tires. Anyone that could afford a 72 $80,000 392 Wrangler will definitely put 35 if not 37's which you'll probably equate to 5 to 8 miles a gallon this will be a factor unless they squeezed a 30-gallon tank under the Beast. The stock Rubicon comes one inch higher than all other rubicon's
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