What would you do?

[kryten]

I knew a guy back in the 90's who was about 60 miles from the yard when the engine started giving all the symptoms of a failing injector. He stopped, called everyone who had to be called, the trailer got rescued he got towed to a dealer near the yard. He told the service goomer behind the counter "there is an injector problem", they said OK and pulled it in the shop. Later on they told him they found a few problems one of which was the engine could do with an inframe. He wasn't really surprised as he figured it was about time anyway so told them to go ahead with the inframe. He caught a ride back home to enjoy the home life for a week.

Dealer calls him a week later tells him his truck will be ready the next afternoon so he catches a ride only to be told by the dealer they blew up the engine on the dyno doing a break in. He is a bit upset but what the hell it's on warranty so they will have to do the inframe over that's all. The next news wasn't nearly so pleasant. They told him there was no warranty as it was an injector tip that came off that caused the engine failure and they never replaced the injectors. Take the truck in for a specific item and everything but gets changed, almost sounds like the government runs this shop.

The real kick in the teeth came a while later when his normal mechanic back home who worked for Finning told him for about $2000 less than he paid for 2 dodgy inframes he could have had a factory reman B block CAT installed ready to run.