Welp, I broke down and gave it my best shot last week.. O/OP rant

Update..

All that work and money changing harnesses' and injectors was a mute point.

So we last left it as I changed the injectors (4,5,6) and the rear injector harness, No fix.

Dealer put it on dyno, then changed MCM, no fix.

Babied that Detroit around the country having it throw same injector codes every 100 miles, or 2000 miles, so intermittent. So frustrating. Did that for a month..

Last weekend, pulling from Chicago to Dallas, cold as hell, kept throwing codes. Kept clearing them. Finally she just wouldn't clear codes anymore.

Parked, as soon as you step on the throttle it would hesitate, throw codes. 10 degrees in IL, probably frozen fuel filters, am I right?

Nope, metal shavings in the primary fuel filter when I pulled it. Bad HP Bosch fuel pump. 554K miles on it.

Shut it down, tow to the dealer.

Here's where it gets stupid.

The next morning the dealer pulls it in after it gets off the 675$ tow hook, with open codes, says they can't recreate codes. I tell them to pull the fuel filter and look at the metal. This is a Detroit Dealer, TCI in Springfield IL.

I tell the tech to start it and plug MY computer and Diagnosticklink into it and show him how the fuel rail is surging between 380 and 420 bar at idle. He finally agrees and says that might be a problem.

Well no crapola, you worthless tech, my HPFP is bad. I don't pay the 200$ you just tried to charge me for a diagnostic fee.

I'm just so over dealerships, they just do computer updates, and are incompetent idiots with a snap on box.

And I know I'm an incompetent driver that owns the software to see what the engine is doing, but god darnit, I've had this truck in the dealership 3 times in the last 2 months and spent 10k dollars replacing parts that never fixed the problem. I can't even imagine how hard it would be for an O/OP who doesn't have a mechanical, engine background.

 

Best part of the story, so Monday morning, I authorize that Detroit dealership to replace HPFP.

Truck Centers Inc. in Springfield IL.

Pay $5150 down payment (50%) to fix the truck. Parts are in stock per down payment invoice. This is Monday.

Get me a hotel, cancel my loads for the week.

Tuesday Morning I call, Service Manager answers the phone and says they are working on it now. Cool.

I call Wednesday Morning, and the Wayne the service writer says they haven't started on it yet, waiting for down payment. I went off the handle on the phone, took an Uber up to the dealership. Here's the receipt number for $5150 that I paid Monday, in front of you, you idiot.

Three days of lost revenue. He put 2 tech's on it and got the HPFP changed in about 8 hours.

How does a dealership lose a truck getting $8000 worth of repairs? I don't get it?

 

Oh yeah, looking back through the thread, and tires..

I'm a tanker guy and haul through the mountains of PA and WV.. always loaded at 79K lbs.

I dont know where you guys are getting quality tires at $300 a drive tires. I run name brand closed shoulder drives. I bought Bridgestone 713's for drives at $668 per tire mounted. Steer were $800 per.

That was using the Big Rig discount website where they give you a PO# and you get a nationwide po.