Ram 3500 MPG test

Bionic Man wrote:

ShinerBock wrote:

larry barnhart wrote:

I'm talking about the "new" 2020 Powerstroke. Ford has a history of having a few "glitches" with new diesel releases..... ;)

I lived it first hand with my 2003.

To be fair, I think this applies to all of them not just Fords. The Cummins 6.7L had turbo, head gasket, and EGR issues when it first came out. The LB7 Duramax had injector failures due to bad design. GM had to issue a recall and extend the warranty of the new units. The LB7 Duramax had head gasket issues and overheating issues due to the small intake manifold. The LBZ had sticking turbos, but was pretty reliable other than that. The LMM had piston issues if you turned up the power in them. The LML is awesome other than its fuel system.

All three had issues with new engines or new iterations of engines so I don't think it is fair to singe out Ford.

Well Cummins/RAM didn’t have billion dollars issues that caused a falling out of the partnership.

And I’ve never read about billions of dollars of warranty issues with the Duramax.

Issues, certainly. But there is a matter of degrees.....

True, although if you look at it that way then it would be Navistar who had all the "glitches" with those pre-6.7L engines, not Ford. Now that Navistar engines are no longer available in these trucks anymore then bringing them up in a discussion about engines built by Ford would be a moot point.

Although, it wasn't just Ford that had issues with Navistar diesels. They also had issues with their Maxx-Force engine and the rebranded "C" engines they built for Caterpillar to put in the CAT semis. That was a billion dollar F up for sure.