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Originally Posted by Wygate
Well it is the start of my second week with out a truck and 500 miles from home. My ins is paying to fix the truck, it needs the entire fuel sys short of new lines and tank!
I just got off the phone with the "factory" and asked them why they would not install the new TSB kit. They had been very helpfull until this phone con.
I asked them why they would authorize a repair that will most likely happen again when they have a fix! No response. They (and by they I mean us the consumer) have a big problem here and seem to know it, so far this new TSB is the 3rd re-do of the 7.5 and up filtration sys that I am aware of! I did not pay $50k plus for a truck I can't trust with my family in it!
I am personally aware of 3 trucks that have had this same issue in the last 3 or so weeks. I just read a post that will make 4. The only thing I know to do is for us to call the factory and lodge official complaints about this problem.
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Your argument, the blame you assign to Chrysler/Dodge, and your demand for a free extreme service filter system are ridiculous. Why would you think Dodge should GIVE it to you?
I have owned and driven three Dodge Rams with Cummins engines, and '01, and '06, and my current '08 for a total of almost 620,000 miles and never experienced bad fuel. Bad fuel is very rare and most Dodge-Cummins owners never even know anyone who have experienced any.
I have never had trouble worth whining about with any of the three of my Dodges. All three have provided outstanding service and reliability without any modifications whatsoever to the fuel filtration or delivery system.
The '01 had an unauthorized set of Bosch injectors intended for the 275 hp motorhome ISB engine installed when it was new which made it run very strong and created excessive exhaust gas temps. I ran it hard for 325,000 miles, many of them pulling trailers commercially. It is still in the family. I put 230,000 miles on an '06 in less than two years towing commercially. My '08 has 63,000 trouble free miles on the odometer. NO bad fuel or fuel system problems with any of the three. I've bought fuel from Fairbanks to Key West, from San Diego to Nova Scotia, and almost everywhere in between.
I have used factory standard injection pumps, transfer pumps, and Fleetguard filters. I've never seen any reason for aftermarket fuel transfer pumps or exotic filters and have never experienced a failure or highway breakdown.
Frankly, a mass produced heavy duty light truck like our Dodge Rams cannot be made idiot proof and we couldn't afford to buy them if the manufacturer tried to design against every possible stupid thing that anyone could do to one.
What has happened to Americans that are incapable of accepting responsibility for their own life? What happened to Americans that accepted their own misfortune and solved their own problem?
You are making a big deal out of contaminated fuel in your truck but it is curious to a reader sitting here on the sidelines reading your posts, uninvolved and objective, that you claim to have purchased a bad tank of fuel at an interstate highway station but you have expressed no concern about the station you claim sold you the fuel. You have never mentioned filing complaints with the corporation that owns the station, with the state agency that is responsible for licensing and regulating fuel stations. You have not mentioned contacting the fuel station manager to file a complaint and demand for taking responsibility. I wonder if you did in fact buy the fuel from a fuel stop?
If you cannot afford to handle a minor setback such as what has happened to you perhaps you couldn't afford a new truck.