David Hirshberg
Member
First forum post so please excuse if I ask something thats been covered before. I currently own a 2017 Jeep GC Trail hawk with the 5.7 V8 and do like the truck. I tow a 7000lb boat about twice a year a few hundred miles so the capacity of the Discovery is appealing to me. I'm nearing 40K miles on my JGC and the incentives on the 2018 Discovery 5's are pretty appealing. I'm seeing them on dealers lots as low as $54,000 or around $6K to 7K off sticker. My questions or comments from research.
- The hitch receiver for the D5 looks like it sticks out quite a ways from the undercarriage on the oem setup that I found a pic of. Is there another way to get a hitch that isn't so "In your face"? Is the pic I copied from a dealers website the way this has to look permanently?
- The D5's I'm looking at don't have the hitch already and the dealer is telling me that its going to be about $2000 when its installed thru them. Seems kind of high but I found one new vehicle online that had the "Tow Pack" for $1,399 on the window sticker. The hitch on the online configurator was like $695. Confusing?
- Are there any special service requirements I need to know of on the supercharged gas engine?
- I've owned diesel VW's and loved them. Does it make sense in this vehicle to go to the diesel if I generally keep it for 2 years or would the gas be sufficient? Any first hand experience with Gas vs diesel in real world fuel economy?