Today would have been the trail date for my truck’s lawsuit. It’s been a total of 3-years 5-months 8-days and about 16-hours after the engine failure but who’s counting right? I haven’t been able to talk about what’s been happening with my truck because of the suit and I’ll do my best to condense almost three and half years of this crap in here. Frankly, the warranty company and their legally group are bunch of wussy complaining crybabies. They were trolling my Facebook page and copied each of the times that I posted ANY news about what was happening with the truck or the lawsuit then cried and raised hell about it. So the law group I hired felt I needed go dark about anything and everything concerning the truck and what was happening with the lawsuit. Okay, no problem. I deleted everything on Facebook and DodgeTalk to placate the little wussies. All of that is now behind me because the paperwork to demises has been filed with the court. I asked and told it was now okay to post what happen. The lead lawyer wished I could buy-up every billboard across the nation but I’ll settle for a thread on DodgeTalk and finely posting what happen on Facebook. This past September the deal to fix the truck was made was pretty wide in scope but everyone signed-off on it and agreed to it. The truck would be taken to the local Five Star Dodge dealership, Burns Motors and once there they would check and diagnose what was wrong and then they would do the repairs to the truck. I would have no say what was done and the only thing that could not be done was paint-n-bodywork. Like I said, it was pretty wide open but I trusted Burns Motors to do right by all the parties.
The truck was towed to Burns on the second of October and I was really hoping to have the truck back by the 25th, which is my birthday. No such luck because within just a few hours of the truck being delivered to Burns, they started telling Burns how the vehicle and engine would be repaired. That didn’t go over well with the Burns service writer or my law group. While everyone was arguing, a crate long block engine showed up at the dealer. A few weeks later, the dealer started working on truck once my law wrote a letter that the law group was filling papers with the court. The wussy crybabies backed down and Burns started working on the truck. At this point it looked like I was going to lose everything I had put into the engine and I wasn’t too happy until I found out there was no core charge for the new engine. The money I was going to use for the core charge, I used to pay the dealer to tear down the old engine. This would mean I could keep my performance parts for later and I didn’t have to pay someone to tear down the old engine. I’ll share the pictures later.
When the engine was torn down, the problems and damage were plain to see. The top end and bottom end showed no signs of damage. The water pump was a rusty pile of trash and you could see the contamination all thought the water passageways. This was because when the engine was pulled and reinstalled, they knew the engine would have to come out. So why waste $45-dollar a gallon anti-freeze, right? So they only put water from the water hose in the engine. Well, they had no way of knowing it would be more than THREE YEARS before the engine would come out again! When the timing cover was removed, everything was good as new. There were no signs of wear at all on any of the guides and the chains looked new as well. Then the cylinder heads came off and there it was, lots of damage. Again, I’ll post the pictures.
The truck has been home since the end of November and I’ve been working thought the list of the problems. It was plain that wussies were not going to help anymore but I was okay with it by this point I’m sick of deal with such an unprofessional and lying group. Right up to the end, they were doing anything and everything they could not to pay what they agreed. What’s the saying? “Once a liar always a liar, once a cheater always a cheater.” I was having problems with oak leaves getting into A/C blower motor in the dash. Even after cleaning what seem like tons of trash, I still had to drop the blower motor three times because of the oak leaves. The ABS error had me worried but it has not come back since it was cleared. I haven’t driven the truck so we’ll see if it returns. It’s at the top of list because it’s part of the safety systems. The A/C wasn’t cooling and there was an Evap Leak Error as well. The Evap error was because of a burned breather pipe, which was a cool $72-bucks from the dealer. I got the family mechanic to replace the Evap breather and top off the A/C and both seem to be working well. I still have an Engine Coolant Sensor error to work though but I’m dealing with each of these as I go. I also found a small puddle of anti-freeze under the truck when I last left the law offices. I’m hoping the puddle is from a weak and failing cap and not something more. The tires were brand new and will need to be replaced. After three and half years, they have cracks in the rubber and drive like they're “Fred Flintstone Edition A/T KO” tire. The tires still have those little expansion nipples all over them! Again, it's a safety issue. What good does it do to spend all this money getting the truck back on the road and then have a tire come part while you’re driving down the highway?
So I can and will update what’s happening as I rebuild the truck.
:grin
The truck was towed to Burns on the second of October and I was really hoping to have the truck back by the 25th, which is my birthday. No such luck because within just a few hours of the truck being delivered to Burns, they started telling Burns how the vehicle and engine would be repaired. That didn’t go over well with the Burns service writer or my law group. While everyone was arguing, a crate long block engine showed up at the dealer. A few weeks later, the dealer started working on truck once my law wrote a letter that the law group was filling papers with the court. The wussy crybabies backed down and Burns started working on the truck. At this point it looked like I was going to lose everything I had put into the engine and I wasn’t too happy until I found out there was no core charge for the new engine. The money I was going to use for the core charge, I used to pay the dealer to tear down the old engine. This would mean I could keep my performance parts for later and I didn’t have to pay someone to tear down the old engine. I’ll share the pictures later.
When the engine was torn down, the problems and damage were plain to see. The top end and bottom end showed no signs of damage. The water pump was a rusty pile of trash and you could see the contamination all thought the water passageways. This was because when the engine was pulled and reinstalled, they knew the engine would have to come out. So why waste $45-dollar a gallon anti-freeze, right? So they only put water from the water hose in the engine. Well, they had no way of knowing it would be more than THREE YEARS before the engine would come out again! When the timing cover was removed, everything was good as new. There were no signs of wear at all on any of the guides and the chains looked new as well. Then the cylinder heads came off and there it was, lots of damage. Again, I’ll post the pictures.
The truck has been home since the end of November and I’ve been working thought the list of the problems. It was plain that wussies were not going to help anymore but I was okay with it by this point I’m sick of deal with such an unprofessional and lying group. Right up to the end, they were doing anything and everything they could not to pay what they agreed. What’s the saying? “Once a liar always a liar, once a cheater always a cheater.” I was having problems with oak leaves getting into A/C blower motor in the dash. Even after cleaning what seem like tons of trash, I still had to drop the blower motor three times because of the oak leaves. The ABS error had me worried but it has not come back since it was cleared. I haven’t driven the truck so we’ll see if it returns. It’s at the top of list because it’s part of the safety systems. The A/C wasn’t cooling and there was an Evap Leak Error as well. The Evap error was because of a burned breather pipe, which was a cool $72-bucks from the dealer. I got the family mechanic to replace the Evap breather and top off the A/C and both seem to be working well. I still have an Engine Coolant Sensor error to work though but I’m dealing with each of these as I go. I also found a small puddle of anti-freeze under the truck when I last left the law offices. I’m hoping the puddle is from a weak and failing cap and not something more. The tires were brand new and will need to be replaced. After three and half years, they have cracks in the rubber and drive like they're “Fred Flintstone Edition A/T KO” tire. The tires still have those little expansion nipples all over them! Again, it's a safety issue. What good does it do to spend all this money getting the truck back on the road and then have a tire come part while you’re driving down the highway?
So I can and will update what’s happening as I rebuild the truck.
:grin