Sabotage

Sweet mother Mary, the Pete dealers on charge 95.00 and hour. But hey I do understand having to dig all that out and replace it tho. Makes sense once you start adding up.

 

Time to open a can of WA right away ! Don't let me catch someone doing that ! I have a real bad habit frontier justice .

 

It's not just truckin'....our whole society is devolving into a "get even now" mentality. More and more retaliatory behavior and less common sense....

 

Cost us $1700 for 2 batteries and an alternator. Granted,.. the alt alone was $1200 at cost. So things can get expensive very quickly.

 

And where are you that the Pete dealers only charge $95? In Nashville it's $160 and Evansville $120. Cummins gets $100 on preEGR, and more money on the newer engines.

None of this takes great skill, but it's all a pain. And it takes lots of time to dig it out and replace it, without screwing up something else. Algea was a PITA, but I learned a lot about the underside of the truck.

A Prime truck is a lease, so it's off to the dealer. Probably on a hook. (another $500)

 

probably cost $7950 and a week to figure out what it was and the other $50 for filters!!!

 

Ahhh.... another 28 volt alt? Heard about these......

 

My shop rate is between $95-$110 depending on the shop I go to.

Unless they were replacing all the lines, etc, I don't see how it comes to $8k.

Unless.... it was a liquid contamination that passed through the filter that ruined injectors. But, that's not ashes, cigarette butts, or trash.

 

Its not just a "get even now" mentality. American society is crumbling around us, and the scum are rising to the top.

I personally doubt it was a disgruntled driver, although the possibility exists. It could very well have been any number of idiots who decided for whatever reason they were going to deliberately damage a truck, and this truck and driver drew the unlucky number.

We see it on the news all the time. People hurt, people killed, property damaged all for a bit of "fun" for some scumbag and his friends.