I don't use my 4r as a D.D. So I don't mind the gas mileage. I like it a lot. The wife wants to start driving it to work now that the bumper has been installed. I was in the same boat as you. What finalized my decision was when I went out on a run with other members, I damaged the front passenger side by hitting it on a good size rock. My wife was with me when it happened. She looked at another rig and said, if you had one of those kind of bumpers you wouldn't have hit anything right. Yep. So then the bumper was ordered.