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Originally Posted by HBarlow
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.
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Harvey,
You have been with me from the very beginning in this and my 911 post, you even asked me to keep posting until it is resolved. As for the comment of not being able to afford a 50k truck, who has 13k just sitting around to fix a truck with one payment? I think that is getting way off track as is using Americans in the way you did. I have never been given anything I did not work for, I have been serving this country for over 19 years and earned every penny I have.
I have been just relaying things as they happen, Dodge did not develop a new filter sys just for the fun of it, the 2010 have it for a reason.
I have and still lay the initial blame on the Shell oil that I stated was the root cause of the issue in my 911 post (Shell/ Perkins breezewood, PA), this is now being taken care of by my insurance co so I am out of the loop so I have nothing to say until they give me info.
Also I was called by a different side of Chrysler today and was told by this person that they could not believe the way I have been treated by them as I have the best warranty they sell and they were looking into it. This person deals with our trucks on a daily basis and was far more aware of what is going on then we are.
I also posted that I called the PA state Police and PA's EPA and was barely given the time of day and none of them wanted any of the stations info or mine.
You talked about all the traveling you have done, have you ever had to sit with your wife, kids and wonder how you would get them home or even to a safe place, barring the gear that you had to leave on the side of the road as most tow rigs can't or wont tow you and your trailer off the HWY. I will gather that in all that travel you have had issues and no matter what you are doing it sucks real bad.
As for bad fuel I have seen it many times when we will send a delivery truck home, granted bad fuel at truck stops are few and far between, never the less it does happen. My repair dealer has mine and one just left with the same issue from different parts of the state.
I am very aware of where I get my fuel, I just sold a Duramax that I had for 8 years and only ever had small amounts of water in the filter when I changed them. I have left many stations due to "bad feeling" about the fuel warranted or not.
I am a very new member and am not savvy in the "Posting" world so by all means tell me if I am out of line.