2015 GMC Duramax Runaway
Wow.... And less than 4k miles too. Link
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Fast Mopar wrote:FishOnOne wrote:Greentreena wrote:
Wow: that is unreal! What caused that??
Never heard of a runaway diesel? It's when a uncontrolled source of fuel (i.e. engine oil) enters the intake and the engine goes into max rpm mode.
Nearly 10 years ago there was a large explosion at a BP refinery in the area. There was a Ford SD Powerstroke diesel truck nearby, and it went into runaway mode due to combustible fuel getting sucked into the intake. Very strange scenario.
What happened at the refinery was that there was a leak of raw gasoline in the refinery due to a engineering failure which resulted in a running Ford truck sucking in the vapors and becoming the ignition source for the explosion. This had nothing to do with the engine running away.
