Turtle n Peeps wrote:FishOnOne wrote:Wiley75 wrote:FishOnOne wrote:Turtle n Peeps wrote:tim and amy wrote:
The Dodge issues all pertain to bad SW and Emissions crap. My buddy had bought his truck and the first week it regen'd, then bam, never ran right after that. It was at the dealer more than he drove. After two turbo's and entire exhaust system he finally figured out that his 2500 was above the 8k gvw for Oregon and didn't require emissions. So off to the Diesel performance shop and off with the garbage. Never had a problem since.
Now, as for Fords, early 6.0L don't like to be messed with and have faulty parts from oil and egr coolers which pop head bolts. But later fords with the regen crap, oh man, dangerous.
First time the local fire department had an F450 go into regen during a run to a call down the freeway, the shop mechanic thought the Driver was crazy when he radioed in that he couldn't get over 35. City came down hard on the dealership they got the truck from until they found out what it was doing. No one knew. My understanding is something was worked out so Firetrucks and emergency vehicles don't regen. I never got a straight answer as the city won't talk about it. But again, in our state it wouldn't have to have it anyway according to our laws.
Smog laws are federal law, not state law.
Much like in my state, the state and local laws say it's ok to grow a certain amount of marijuana plants under certain restrictions. The feds say if you grow 1 plant you can be arrested and charged with a felony.
IF your local government ok'ed to take federal mandated smog equipment off of trucks I would hate to have my name on any doc's that talked about it or ok'ed it.
Here is another thread that talks about this.
Here's the problem TNP... You just purchased a new Dodge RAM 6.7 Cummins truck and your sick of the dealer having to clean the turbo, clean the EGR, clean the intake manifold and force a regen to clean the soot clogged DPF, seeing that pesky CEL and oil rise on the dipstick. Because of these issues many of these owners decided to forfeit their warranty and the emissions compliance, and deleted their truck in an attempt to make it reliable. The emission system on these trucks were half baked and the owners were forced to take matters in their own hands. You would think the Federal Government would give these folks a free pass.
Problem is that for every 1 guy that has had the problems you mention there is 100 guys like me who own a 6.7 and haven't had a single issue.
Your truck must be deleted... :W
You can always tell when an engine problem gets out of hand. The truck manufacture sues the engine manufacture.
Did that happen to Dodge? Oh that's right, it happened to that other truck maker. :B
