glider or new

I'm not sure that there is much difference in cost anymore, used to be you could get into a glider for about 70% of a new truck, now they seem to be within 10 g's of each other?

 

The big savings is no fet tax on a glider, not just the sticker price.

 

Glider may prove to be more reliable .

 

Last year I was looking at one, but it was only $10k cheaper than a whole new truck that gets better mpg's.
So I bought a new one.
In 18 months it has been in the shop for a total of six days for emission related faults.

 

At 500 a day after expenses that's a 3k dollar hit to your bank account. And when the warranty is up what will those 6 days cost?

 

Depends on what the glider has in it. Yellow paint is expensive.

 

Yes,. but yellow paint with out emissions is the cats meow. The reliability is unparalleled.

Pay more in fuel or pay more in repairs. Pick your poison.

Hurst

 

That is true. I will always prefer yellow paint to anything they put in a truck today. I've had the pleasure to drive an eccentric assortment of trucks in almost 12 years playing around with these things.

 

If getting a Glider I would look at Harrison Gliders. Fitzgerald Glider rebuild the engines themselves and they warranty the engine vs the manufacture like CAT or Detroit from what I hear.