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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dave26027, post: 5392422, member: 33137&quot;]In April of 2015 i finally said goodbye to my old Freightliner Columbia. Mercedes motor, smart shift ten speed. No one knows how it traveled 1,200,000 miles.</p><p>Most of it was behind wreckers. My own fault, i know. The best and worst personal fault is being persistent and never giving up.</p><p>So i will make a really long story short. Freightliner has lost a customer for life. Poorly engineered, poorly built and too dangerous to be using public roadways. Pervasive cylinder liner and head problems, a lemon for a transmission, an electrical system that doesn&#039;t serve or support the ecm on the engine or trans. End result= .30 cents per mile maintenance costs and rising. The trans would get locked in gear often and the truck wouldn&#039;t move. The engine would fail to start often because of fault codes, i had to jump the starter almost daily to get it running. After it started it could be seconds, hours or days before the transmission would wake up and begin working. Freightliner shops often broke more things than they fixed. Three engine in frames in a row (cause the first two shops had no idea how to rebuild a Mercedes), three turbos, three clutches, a rearend that came apart, three exhaust brakes (until i wired it open so it wouldn&#039;t work)..</p><p>Anyway, i did meet a couple of people that owned similar trucks and said theirs never broke or gave them problems. I never believed a word of it.</p><p>Do a lot of research before you buy any truck with a Mercedes motor or a Freightliner.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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