Bad idea to buy a 2015 truck from a dealership?
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by PermanentTourist, Oct 1, 2018.
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What engine? If Cummins I’ll send you the link about how to protect yourself with warranty.
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Ok, check out my due diligence:
Get to the dealership, start looking at the cascadia. All shiny and pretty, and not a lot of codes on the DDDL, just some AC ######## from a month ago. Ah, but wait:
The coolant tank inner walls are covered with black gunk! The coolant itself is cleanish, the clever ######## flushed it. But definitely oil in coolant, the oil cooler is going bad.
And also:
This thingy is dancing back and forth while idling. Dont know what it is but I know it ain't right. Called my LA mechanic, and he says it means the fuel pump is going bad, another $2000.
So yeah, I walked away from this thing. Too bad, it still had a year and 100k miles of the fancy towing warranty left. Did I make the right decision? And how much of a discount would I have to ask for to make it worth it?Lepton1 and Oldironfan Thank this. -
about pic# 1. There were oil or diesel inside before. you said the truck has 400k miles. honestly I don't believ it. Diesel goes into coolant after 500k miles and the oil goes into coolant after 750k miles..
about pic# 2. $900 repair if it is egr actuator malfunctioning -
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As far as relative compression test, my DDDL is old, it sorta crashes if I ask it to do anything too weird. Mostly just good for reading codes and monitoring stuff. But I'll have to try it on the next truck. Is it pretty self explanatory as far as interpreting results?Lepton1, mhyn and Oldironfan Thank this. -
If you buy a 2015 hope it has been inframed and updated internals and such, as many 2015 trucks had the problematic 2010 to 2014 issues. Like carbon packing, and fuel pump for Cummins. Def and injector issues for the rest.
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