New Ford Superduty owners beware (diesels)

[WilliamBos]

I had the same truck (05 GMC Dmax 3500 4x4 SRW), same issues not to mention injectors, glow plugs, electrical issues, bad paint, ect. Bought it brand new and sold it, well traded it 9 months later on a 06 F-350 that is still in the drive. I swore of GM products at that point. I took a bath with that pos!:confused2:

It would heat up like a fat lady on a summer day with 10,000# behind it. I think the biggest issue was the smallish air cleaner/intake.

Chris

A lot of folks had that some issue. The LLY did a lot of damage to the Dmax rep. The LBZ seemed to earn it back, for the ones who wsnted to take the chance.

 

[me0418840987]

I had a 95 Ram 2500 with the 5.9. I did have to replace the injector pump at $2500. with low miles. I was mad at the time but then after 12 years of no/ zero other problems, I figured it evened out especially when hearing some of the horror stories from the other manufacturers.

I have an 07 ram 3500 now with 6.7 Cummins and Aisin transmission now, $60,000 with custom service body. Already had major tranny work done to stop a code from popping, replaced the alternator, then the ECM, now the turbo speed sensor is throwing a code, and one of the possible causes is bad ECM, which has less than 500 miles since it was just replaced, about 1,700 bucks for the part. All this work was done under warranty so far but that just expired and I'm on my own now. except I have a year on the new ECM.

The truck is awesome when everything is right and I'm not ready to swear off Cummins/Dodge, but if I had to pay all this out of pocket I would be complaining for sure.
Saw the newest Ram 5500 with 8 gallon ureia tank under the driver floor, I don't think diesel will be in my next service truck, it's just getting too risky getting whacked with a $20,000. repower bill and how much down time.
It's just not worth that risk to hear the sweat sound of diesel or save a little on fuel cost, just have to go a little slower when towing up hill.




Right for who ????

Right for you or right for the manufacturer?
Right for the manufacturer is a product with the perfect balance of planned obsolescence. So they don't lose their loyal following, but sell as many replacements as possible.

You don't think they are using all this powerful technology to build a product to be trouble free and last well beyond it's warranty period do you?
Sad but true, that's what we've become. The best engineers are working on how to make sure the product doesn't last for ever. Anything else would be a conflict of interest.

JB

Well, I have had less troubles than you,I guess. 94 dump has needed only a tailpeice on the transmission-manual 5 speed, and fuel lines. 406,000 miles. I bought it from another contractor who swears he did nothing to it in the first 200,000. Granted most of the creature comforts don;t work anymore, Heat, air, cruise, radio, power locks, You get the picture, But it starts down to +5 without plugging it in, and doesn't complain when buried hub deep in the mud.
Probably going to sell her this summer, and just go to my Ram 1500, as the work has slowed down quite a bit, and I still have my 84 Dodge 318 powered 350 dump.


The 92, is my brother's truck, and has been trouble free, but not really sure how long everything would have lasted, as it now makes 625 HP at the rear wheels, as of the last time he had it on the dyno. 532,000 or so on what is still left of the original truck, but he has at least 300,000 on this block.

The other 94 is my other brothers, and he has gone the same route as my other brother, His just turned 400,001 when I was using it the other day. Other than replacing some parts to gain HP, his is all original, right down to the automatic trans( it is getting rebuilt later this month to handle the HP) he is shooting for 900.

I guess my biggest point, is that I or my brothers have never had any water damage anything major. The light comes on, change the filter, drain the seporator, and be on your way.

 

[RollingsFarms]

A lot of folks had that some issue. The LLY did a lot of damage to the Dmax rep. The LBZ seemed to earn it back, for the ones who wsnted to take the chance.

when I was truck shopping (both new and used) I looked at several Duramax's and noticed trucks with the LLY were substantially lower in price then other equipped Duramax's. some of the LLY's were cleaner trucks with lower miles too! I found ONE decent deal on an LBZ but that truck had very few options on it(LS model stripped down as much as you can get pretty much). Ford's seemed to be higher in the used diesel market when I shopped, and good luck finding a dodge with the 5.9 Cummins. if you found one you were gonna pay for it no matter the shape or the miles. alot of people that have the new Duramax(2011-2012) seem to like them but when I test drove them I wasn't impressed as much as I thought I would be. I was sort of let down to be perfectly honest.