Opinions on PACCAR engines please

Pretty new stuff...

My salesman at the Pete store has told me about some pretty good fuel economy numbers for the new engines... there have been several fleets running them for two years now and getting anywhere from 6+ up to more than 8 mpg... depending on their operations of course.

they have only been installing them for a few months so reliability is unknown but they seem to hold up well in the DAF trucks in Europe.

 

The company I used to work for tested 3 of those Paccar motors a few years back for Peterbilt in Winnipeg. Amazingly ######, was all I heard. Always breaking down. Not enough power. I never asked for any more info back then from the guys that were testing them, so that's I know. Plus, that was 2 or so years ago. Maybe 3. They could be better by now.

 

Absoloute rubbish is the short answer! I bought 2 brand new dafs in 2003, engine no1 wore out at 230,000kms engine no2 at 540,000 kms, yes that's kilometres not even miles, I don't mean they blew up I mean they were completely worn out, they both had to be rebuilt, the newer mx is even worse, I've only seen one to make a million km's they usually only last 600,000km's that's around 370,000 miles but it's often much lower, they have other major issues too, egr valves, burning copious amounts of oil, warping heads, dropping valves. If you have any sense stay away from these engines, they will break you like they did me and Alot of guys I know, stay with an engine you know but these are a really bad engine

 

My opinion......buy the truck with a Cummins.


That is all

BTW, way to revive a old thread LOL

 

Cummins seem like a really good engine, why take a chance on a pacaar? Besides now you know how bad pacaars engines are pass the word on , don't let your fellow truckers be duped into buying these piles of junk

 

Ahh I've just noticed the dates on this thread lol,

 

I've been told good things recently. Maybe they improved them since 2-3 years ago??...