Just left the dealership....

[Rawze]

Don't feel singled out, I pick on everyone equally around here at different times, especially after I have had a few -- (hic) ... The whole point to my ranting above is simply to make anyone reading it think hard about what they do, not just the person I replied to.

I have seen guys buy turbo actuators off the internet "supposedly Certified OEM", only to have them fail with cheap chineese busings in only a few months, then have to go buy one at the stealers#hit later,.. all that half-price discount money down the drain that could have gone towards a good one.

I have seen people buy supposedly OEM turbochargers at a un heard of "deals" off the internet, supposedly certified and all,.. and end up with a runnaway engine, it costing them $36,000 for a new one. (This was also re-discussed recently here: http://rawze.com/forums/showthread.php?t...3#pid18943 ).

I have seen guys buy after-market charge air coolers that are supposedly "better quality" and "tougher" than factory,. Hell, they even push those crap Duraf$uck and other brands of CAC's at the stealers$its too! -- Only to see them suck the life out of your engine and fuel mileage because they were so air restrictive. The intake boots literally collapsing under the restriction when you get on it hard, some of them are so bad.

I have seen guys who buy those "Air butterflies" and/or "Air swirling " devices, and/or "fuel conditioner"/ and/or "fuel polisher", and/or "fuel molecule alignment", and/or methanol, hydrogen, and all sorts of gimmik devices, spend thousands on some of them, only to come here and watch their live fuel flow not change one tiny bit when bypassed, and their fuel mileage numbers NOT change at all. -- Somehow all of the O/O's I have met who buy those type of things seem always think they help, but can't prove it when it comes right down to it. If it worked even 10% of its claims, YOU COULD MEASURE AND SEE IT with clear gain(s)!

I have seen O/O's buy after-market, or "off the internet" DPF and/or DOC cans only for them to throw repeating NOx sensor errors, or refusing to do any regens properly after the first week or so because there were not enough platinum / chemicals in them. They end up having to go out and pay for a second one from the stealershi$t before its over, and the super deal of a company they got it from refusing to take it back because "it was installed on the truck". -- In fact, "Oficially", if a DOC or DPF is replaced, THE SERIAL NUMBER is supposed to be recorded and a record kept as such for the EPA! and ALSO, a new emissions test is supposed to be performed. This means that everyone selling DPF and DOC units off the internet are breaking the law the same way as someone selling delete kits.


I have seen people buy into those extended oil changes + synthetic oils only to have repeating overhead cam failures, while all their friends who run non-syn oil and change it often have no issues whatsoever. - Actually I have seen this more than a few times, and when you explain it to the idiot who is using that extended oil change interval bulls$it, will do nothing but arguing with you because they are so brainwashed by it,.. as they are replacing a 2nd or 3rd cam in less than a 500k mile span after switching over to it.

I have seen guys buy brand-name "upper injector and cylinder lube additives" and pour them in their fuel tanks religiously, only to end up with severe fuel impingement problems, resulting in increased compression ratio after a year or so, and blown head gaskets.

I see ALL THE TIME, and EVERY TIME I go somewhere to get my oil changed, people dumping in that over-priced white bottle of "oil additive" that strips 12% away your engine oil additive package because it HAS NO ADDITIVES IN ITSELF, the guy who owns the truck swearing by it like some ill-begotten religion instead of finding a product than can increase viscosity the same way THAT ACTUALLY HAS ADDITIVES for about 1/3 the price. -- I call it TOTAL BULLSH%$IT from the company selling that white bottle of over-priced crap at every speedco, TA, flying-J, and everywhere else!. -- It is one of the ultimate trucker gimmicks --> Lets sell some 110-grade oil with a bit of (oil stop-leak) and NO ACTUAL HELPFUL ADDITIVES IN IT that only costs us about 0.6c/gallon to produce for $34+ and market the s$it out of it like it is some kind engine life extending of miracle cure!. It is the HIGH PROFITS that has everyone brainwashed, nothing more.

I have seen O/O's spend $350 each for those expensive automatic tire pressure regulator systems only to have the systems fail repeatedly and it cost them MORE MONEY than any amount of fuel or wear they might have ever benefited from.

I have seen guys who spend $12,000 + at "super-duper expensive big-name, well known, established delete companies " only to watch a piston go through the side of the block a few months later, or the crank bearings get beat out of the engine. ALL of those big-name, big dollar places have worst programming I have even seen in an engine, yet everyone brags about those multi-million dollar rip-off companies at all the truck shows like a bunch of horney dogs at a female-in-heat fest.


I.E.> there is a plague if ignorance in this modern engine trucking industry and there is more rip-off crap out there than you can count. Anyone has to be a complete fool to even think they stand a chance on their own any more, there is so much bad information.

You know it has to be pretty sad when the "OEM" and "certified" shops and other "official" support industries around trucking are relentlessly hell bent on taking every dime you have earned instead of doing anything of quality any more. God forbid you actually figure out how to knuckle down, say enough is enough, and do those things to keep your profits in your own pocket. For that, everyone who "supposedly knows better" would call you a fool that is full of s$it just like me!

What does this all add up to??----

EVERYONE WITH THEIR HAND OUT AND A GIMMICK TO TAKE EVERY PENNY FROM YOU THEY CAN!.

Rule of thumb number one --> If it looks good, has a fancy dalled up website full of truck pictures and lots of "testimonials", their booths can be found at all the truck shows, and a large following of brainwashed worshipers hell bent on throwing all their money at them,.. It is probably 99.999% likely not so good for your long term profitability... period!.