Keep fixing a truck or sell it

Engines were fixed or replaced?
What were the failures?
Most dealers don’t go too deep repairing engines these days.

We had a 6.2 we put lifters in a couple of years ago that had issues. Fount the root cause and has been good so far. Was poorly machined lifters wearing out the lifter tray then spinning. New lifters came in the second time with the same issue and were dressed with a wet rock before installation.

 

Ehh, no skin off my back. I’m more of a Pontiac man anyway….


We get paid to fix them. Haven’t heard or seen these issues locally yet.

 

Well at least these new manufacturing mess ups can’t tarnish the Pontiac brand, long live the GTO and Trans Am.

 

Got my first check engine light after 96 miles. Code thrown is a p25a2. I was able to clear it with putting on the parking brake

You gotta be shitting me is all im thinking

My Dad's one month old Ram is in the shop because the radio is on full blast and no volume knobs work

 

All of a sudden my mystery beep doesnt seem so bad.

 

My ram has been a fantastic truck, but the electronics will definitely do some weird shit a couple times a year.

Usually as simple as shutting it off and turning it back on.

 

Who knew Dodge ran Windows in their fleet?

 

You just need to replace the 9v battery.

 

I can't say this is the case in most BUT I have sneaky suspicion that in all the manufacturers the "touch screen units" connected to the BCM are made cheaply in that country we know that supplies everything and they bug out causing phantom touches.

My FIL's 22 chevy traverse is a prime example...start car "radio off" then 4 min down the road it mysteriously comes on. Start car "radio is on" and turn it off it comes back on its own 2 to 5 min later.

 

Hey Josh a quick search showed a lot of people getting that code a couple years ago and the fix looks like a software update. if it does that code again be careful...several people reported brakes nearly gone when that code came up, like braking action nil level of brakes. Hope it was juts an electrical phantom.

 

Well, it is a GM product, so there’s every likelihood the brakes are smoked after 96 miles.

 

Never had brake problems with 3 generations of GM Silverado's I've owned

 

My 2002 F350 7.3 has 335k of mostly towing miles but has been spewing oil from all orifices for the last few months.
I fix one thing and here comes another. Lately it's been the ICP sensor Oring. This morning I was so pissed that it happened again I put on a crush washer instead. So far so good haha

I swear you can just follow the oil drips and puddles to find me if I ever get lost.

The worst part is buying friggin 5 gallons of oil at a time.

 

Oily undercarriage prevents rust

You can thank Ford later

 

Those were some solid work trucks if you kept up on them

 

Nickel & dime you to death... you didnt want to bet a crew of guys on its reliability.

 

We do a decent number of the LS engines with lifter/ cam issues. Shame what they did to that awesome engine with DOD

 

Always buy a new whatever

 

We have two customers with new (2023) Silverados, both of them the "brake hold " feature engages sporadically and will not release for a few minutes. No fix yet.

 

It's a switch...give me the wiring schematic and I bet it's the 5 dollar one somewhere in the circuit.

It's funny my Genesis has a brake hold feature when you stop. One day I stopped with it on and I hit the gas and it wouldn't move. Brakes locked up. I had to move the gear selector to P then back to drive and it released. I was like what in the wide world of Hyundai just happened.

You know what it was? under the hood is a rubber grommet that when the hood is closed presses a switch to let the system know it's down and locked. The rubber grommet fell out.