Fiat and Cummins in court

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:


As for the stupid comments that was meet for comparing a pickup truck to construction equipment that the operator could care less about. I have never seen any piece of construction equipment without a fuel cap in it myself.

My exact point. As a shop man for a very large construction company I see daily what these fuel system go through. The tier 4 engines of todays equipment is not much different than the trucks we drive. The use DEF and everything. When you see the fuel nozzles on the trucks in the field they use to put fuel in the equipment laying in the bed of the truck covered over with dirt, mud ,snow , sand , hay, you name it. If grass seed could grow in diesel fuel we would have to mow our tanks. I've seen them have to stick the nozzle in the tailpipe to thaw the ice out of them to even get them to flow. Do we have fuel system problems? Yes and the fix is usually change the fuel filters. Eventually the fuel tanks have to be pulled and washed out because eventually you won't make it through a week on the fuel filters or the pick-up tube in the tank will get plugged.