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what’s up welcome to the website, thanks for joining me, I’m in my truck this is my 2024 GMC Sierra 1500. It’S the elevation trim. It has the 3 l diesel engine in it with the 10-speed transmission. I think this engine is is great in this truck. It’S kind of an upgraded option when you’re optioning these trucks and uh.
One of the someone who watches my channel left a comment the other day and asked is this truck with this engine? Is that a good daily driver, or would it be better to to do like the gas engine and the reason he asked is because he’s never had a diesel he’s heard about? Like the you know, the diesel exhaust fluid? Do you have to plug it in over the winter? You know the engine block heater.
What do you have to do with the the exhaust fluid the fuel filter? There’S some extra things with that. So in this video I want to talk about. Is this a good engine to be like a daily driver truck now quick backstory? This is like my second vehicle with the 3 l diesel engine.
My first one was a GMC Yukon XL. It was a 2022 I just sold that recently and that went the the 2022 GMC, the the the fullsize SUVs they had the lm2 version of the engine. The lm2 was like the first generation of the 3 l inline 6 turbo engine, and I think it was like in 21 or 22, GM came out with the lz0. That’S just the RPO code that GM uses when they’re on their parts. So, like the kind of the second generation of this engine, a redesigned version of it is called the lz0.
That’S what this truck has has a little more power, more more horsepower, more torque. It has the same fuel, efficiency and out of kind of like the same engine, so they might have just you know, upu the turbo a little bit. I know they changed the the Piston material in this newer version, but I think both engines are going to be great. I’Ve had both obviously now this this truck I’ve only had for like 3 or four months now. I don’t have a ton of miles on it.
Yet but I did put about 27,000 mil on my Yukon on that 3 l Diesel and I loved that and my wife drove that that uh Yukon for just less than a year as a daily driver, and we had no issues, no problems. You don’t have to like treat the diesel these newer diesel engine, you, don’t you don’t have to treat them differently than a gas engine. You don’t have to like wait to start them. You don’t have to like. Let them idle a bunch uh.
You know after you’re driving, you don’t have to sit there and idle. They does have a few quirks these. These these engines do have a few things you have to be aware of. They do have a little more uh different maintenance schedules and things like that and we’ll go over on that, but as far as being a daily driver, I definitely think this engine in this truck and this configuration is a great daily driver. Okay: let’s talk about diesel price versus gas price cuz!
That’S really a big factor in this for, like the last year, gas and diesel in my area, has been very close in price. It’S been like between 3 350 to 3 390, that’s kind of where gas has been diesel has been right there with it. I have seen in the past, though, diesel has been almost 80 to 90 cents more expensive than gas, but even with diesel being like, let’s say even it’s a dollar more expensive, the mpg that this truck gets with this engine is phenomenal. Like I can get, I can get close to 28 to 30 mil to the gallon on the highway. When I’m driving, you know 70 75 mph on the freeway.
It does fantastic. So if you’re driving a lot of highway miles and you’re putting a lot of miles where you’re going, you know, highway speeds a lot. This thing is going to get close to 30 m of the gallon, so you’re going to get great MPG, especially on the highway. The gas V8 engine, or even the turbo Max, is not going to get close to those numbers. So you’re going to get probably like 10 8 to 10 miles per gallon better in the in the diesel than you are any of the gas engines that this truck offers.
So this gets like 28 to 30 in the on the highway and then like 20 to 22 in the city. So I mean it’s getting it’s getting in the city. What the gas engines get on the highway. I mean it really is impressive and you’re not giving up power, even though this only has just over 300 horsepower. It has close to 500 pound feet of torque, so this thing has a ton of torque, it’s very responsive and if you do end up having to do any Towing because it’s a turbo, it has an inline six.
It’S got a lot of torque and it’s turboed and the just the nature of the diesel engine. It gets really good mileage too, when you’re towing. This does come with an engine block heater already installed, which is great. You don’t have to install that. It comes with a cord, the cord’s, just you know, tucked under the back seat when it gets really cold.
It’S recommended you plug it in you know if you’re parking this outside and it gets down to, like you know, uh 5, like really cold. You know it’s getting down below like around zero fahrenheit, it’s getting super cold and you’re leaving this outside it would be. It would be advisable that you start plugging it in at that temperature. You know you just run an extension cord to your house, plug it in so that way, it’s a little easier for this to start up. Um I’ve left mine outside on cold temperatures.
I never I haven’t plugged it in and it’s always fired up just fine. So I would say, if you’re in really really cold weather, then you might want to consider plugging in but they provide the cord. So it’s not a big deal. If you forget one night, it’s probably just going to start up and be fine anyways. Now one thing I did in my Yukon last year is: if I was going to leave it outside, I I did over the winter time I did run a a diesel additive.
So if you just go to the auto part, store you’re at Walmart or any of these any any store that sells like auto supplies, sells a diesel winterized fuel treatment and it just helps the fuel from jelling up. So if you add that in a couple times, if you’re going to leave, if it’s going to be really cold and you’re going to leave it outside, I would add that in just because it’s going to help the diesel from jelling up, like that’s one of the Properties that diesel has is it’ll like gel up when it’s cold and get really thick, and it can gum up your fuel filter and gum up the system. So you would run that most areas, though, if you’re, if you’re buying diesel fuel in a cold climate generally, the gas stations add that Winter Blend to the diesel to help it from gelling. But it’s not going to hurt to add a little bit a little bit on your own just to help keep that from freezing up now a couple things you have to pay attention to outside of just regular oil changes. And you know, maintenance is there’s a fuel filter, fuel filter.
I change it. I I change it on mine. You know maybe every 15 to 25,000 mil that’s kind of the interval. You could probably get 30,000 Mi out of the fuel filter. It’S actually really easy to change in these vehicles.
It’S right underneath, like basically where the driver sits. There’S a canister right underneath there you just screw it off, put a new one. In put it back up, it’s really easy. I got a couple videos I’ll leave a link to those. So if the fuel filters – maybe 40 bucks – and you change that every 15 20 25,000 miles there is a fuel filter gauge on the screen here, it kind of gives you the life of the fuel filter.
So you, you know when you’re getting down low, if you change that out so there’s, maybe an extra 30 40 bucks every 255,000 mil and then diesel ALS these diesel trucks also have to. They also take the diesel exhaust fluid the DF. It’S just a fluid that helps reduce diesel emissions and it’s in a tank. Now these trucks have a 5 gon tank and it’s right next to the fuel fill so right. Where you put the diesel fuel in there’s a little blue cap, you put the diesel exhaust fluid in just with regular driving it’ll go through 5 gallons of deaf diesel exhaust fluid every about 5,000 mil 2 and2 gallon jugs.
You can find them at like, like Walmart. The auto part store convenience stores, sell them. You can find like somehow it’s just become really cheap. All of a sudden, you can find them for under 10 bucks 8 bucks for a 2 and 1/2 gallon. So for probably about every every like 3,000 miles.
I’M usually can will add about 2 and2 gallons to the truck and then that way, because it’ll be just less than half I’ll, fill it back up to about 90 % and we’re good to go for about another 3,000 miles. So I usually do that every 3,000 miles add the DF um, but other than that regular oil changes uh. The only other thing to know is that these trucks do have the an oil pump belt. The has made a big deal of this uh, the lz0, the like the newer version of the motor right now is rated for 200,000 miles before the oil pump belt needs to be changed, and it’s like behind. It’S like in the rear of the engine where the transmission mounts up the transmission needs to be removed.
In order to get to that, I don’t I’m not concerned with that by 200,000 Mi you’re, probably going to need some transmission work and while you’re getting the transmission rebuilt, serviced or so forth, you could just have them change out that pump, Bel and be fine. You it’ll last another 200,000 Mi, there’s also something unique to the diesel, and that is like there’s a regen process and I’m not like I’m not an expert on this guys. So correct me if I’m wrong, but there’s the diesel particulate filter, the DPF and over time it collects soot, like soot kind of builds up into that and there’s a process where the DPF gets really really hot and it kind of burns out all of the soot And contaminants out of that, and so is, if you don’t drive this, like a ton like if you’re not driving a lot of like long distances in this truck, there might be on occasion. This has only happened one time in my Yukon when I had it over the course of 28,000 miles. Where I got a, I got a message on the screen that said regen and process.
Don’T you know, don’t turn the engine off just keep driving? That’S what? Basically, what it said that happened in a time when we we weren’t driving it as much, and so we were just doing shorter trips with it, and so it needed go through his regen process. Where that, where that uh filter gets super hot and it heat Heats it up and it kind of like burns out all the s out of it, basically so that that’s how I understand it to be, if, if it’s different guys, let me know in the comments Below but the miles per gallon that you get with this on the highway you’re getting 27 to 30 miles the gallon on the highway, depending on how fast you’re going, I mean. That’S that’s huge like that.
That is the. That is the reason why you’d buy this truck because of the great fuel efficiency that it has, because you can get those really great fuel efficiency numbers when you get a full tank. I believe this holds like 25 gallons of fuel, which is kind of small. I know but um, you know if you’re you’re getting 30 m the gallon I mean you’re getting over 700 mil of range per tank. So it’s really nice that, like you know, you can get that much range out of such a small tank of fuel on these trucks.
So I would highly recommend this truck. A couple of my neighbors have the same truck and the diesel engine. They love it as well. Everyone everyone, I’ve heard that like has this engine loves it. They daily drive it.
It’S not giving them problems, it’s not giving them issues, they’re, just reliable works, great great power, great fuel efficiency and there’s really not a lot of special treatment that you have to do as far as like when you’re driving it. You don’t have to let it warm up, you don’t have to let it cool down um, you just drive it like you would a gas truck, and then you have those couple extra things that you have to add. Like the diesel exhaust fluid the fuel filter. Maybe look for really cold weather, maybe plugging in adding a diesel fuel treatment in the winter time to keep the fuel from jelling up would be the the few things to consider. But that’s really not a big deal when you’re getting that that good of gas mileage out of this truck.
If you have this engine or had experience with this engine, the 3 l diesel leave in the comments down below how was it as a daily driver? Did it work out? Well, did you like it dislikes just you know it helps if we can all share our thoughts and ideas about this, helps everyone making decision about buying this. So thanks for watching the video guys be sure to leave your comment down below hit that Thumbs Up Button subscribe to the channel. We see you in the next one thanks for watching.
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