thoughts on the Titan XD (Cummins)

[Houndoc]

Starting to consider replacing my 2008 Sierra 2500 Duramax- nearing the 240K mile mark and business is good. I have liked my last 2 GM diesels.

Back when I had a Dodge, I agreed with my mechanic that the "Cummins diesel is great, just too bad it is in a Dodge" (the only vehicle purchase I really regret).

So, thoughts on a Cummins powered Nissan?

Most my towing is either short distances (Grantsville to Logan being about the furthest) with a loaded horse trailer (roughly 10K pounds) or Lake Powell with the boat (roughly 6K, plus camping gear, food etc in the truck.)

Any other trucks I should be looking at, besides sticking with GM?

 

[jeeper]

The nissan cummins is not the same as the dodge.

A friend of mine is a tech for nissan. He said they sold a TON of the trucks when they came out, and a TON of them came back from unhappy customers who thought they could tow based on the cummins name. I have no personal experience with the nissan, but I'd bet the ecoboost would be way better.

 

[Rot Box]

No experience with the them either but 10k lbs is pretty darn close to that max tow rating.. For me it’s just too close for comfort.

 

[xjtony]

They were kind of billed as in-between a half ton and three quarter ton truck. I've known a few guys that really like them because they just towed a car hauler or similar sized load. One of the big selling points was fuel economy, but I wonder if towing 10k might eat into that. I do know a guy that claims to get over 20mpg towing a 2 horse trailer but I've never verified that. I really looked at these before I bought my Dodge and almost pulled the trigger until I got a screaming deal on the truck I have now. I think they could be a decent value for folks who don't tow huge loads. That said the new hemi 1500s have a tow rating of up to 12k...

 

[UNSTUCK]

As others have said, they are an in between truck. They have the same or similar tow rating as the 1/2 tons and get the same mileage as the 3/4 tons.
10k towing might get you the new GM 3.0 diesel. It will get you the Ram 3.0. Neither of these trucks have the payload capacity though with a heavy trailer and full of family. I don't know where the Nissan is at with payload.

 

[TRD270]

5/8th ton, I looked into them a bit last year. Lots of trans problems from what I read. Not much more power than current gassers or tow rating steered me away.

FWIW new dodges or “rams” are a whole different animal than the older ones. Wish I still had my 2014 I loved that truck but well flight school is expensive and selling it paid for a lot of it 😂

 

[Houndoc]

FWIW new dodges or “rams” are a whole different animal than the older ones. Wish I still had my 2014 I loved that truck but well flight school is expensive and selling it paid for a lot of it 😂

I guess that is a topic for another thread!

 

[haulinshine]

At the 10k weight from grantsville to logan I wouldn't want to run anything smaller than a 3/4 ton. I would say gas over diesel at that low of a weight but it doesn't really matter if you are looking at stuff with lower miles and not real old IMO. All of the big 3 are going to do just fine and like has been said before Ram has upped their quality but there are still a lot of things about the cab of those trucks I just don't like (personal preference). right now I would stay far away from the used diesel market if you can it's pretty crazy.