If you come to the Waco area and go to the Waco Freightliner dealership, I hope you have a better experience than I did. There is a tall young half bald blond headed kid working at the service counter, his name is Kay the owners son. He is a very arrogant #$%&%**. I asked for a estimate on a inframe on my 2003 Columbia for my banker to look at and he told me I was better off getting rid of the truck. He was sitting there behind the counter with his feet propped up on the counter. He is the first person you see when you walk in the front door. He smelled of alcohol and printed out someone else's $19,000 repair bill on a 2005 Columbia then tore the top off of all 3 pages and said give that to your banker. I told him that a 2005 is a different animal 14L egr vs 12.7 non egr and that I would not take a estimate with the top of the pages tore off to my banker.Then he called the salesman to the counter and told him I needed another truck. I told both of them that I was going to fix my older truck and that I did not want a egr truck. The salesman told me that my truck was only worth about $5000 after I repaired it. It was hard to keep my cool and not loose it and knock the hell out of him. I have been buying my parts there and all the parts guys treat me well with a lot of respect. I haven't found one person that works there that hasn't told me he is a jerk but is the owners son and there is nothing that can be done. I was so pissed that I came home and took my truck apart myself. It isin't no big deal to fix it myself because I am a master auto tech but it doesn't fit in my shop and I am doing it outside. I sold my Corvette to get the money to repair the truck and didn't have to go to the bank after all. My truck is a #### good truck and is not wore out and will bring a lot more than $5000. If I played into their game they would have repaired it and have it on their lot for about $25,000. It's the truck in my avitar, has 920,000 miles but looks like new and has been maintained very well. The reason for me wanting to inframe it is because it was popping back through the intake manifold. I took the head off and the cylinders still have cross hatches and no lip aaround the top at all. It appears to have been rebuilt and nothing done to the head because it had a Felpro head gasket that was the problem. I took the head to a good machine shop and am getting a valve job done and all the injector cups replaced and told the machine shop do not mill the head any. Going back with genuine Detroit gaskets. Just wanted to warn my fellow truckers about this.
Waco Texas Freightliner
Discussion in 'Freightliner Forum' started by robbiehorn, Nov 23, 2013.
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