Dodge Screwed Me!!!

[Seth]

This thread did get out of hand quickly. I think we need a thread summary.

I hope you get lucky and they fix it for you. A buddy of mine just bought a VW GTI and missed a shift or something when it was two days old. He took it back and they said it needed a motor and it was operator error. It ended up just bending a valve or something, but it was like 4k in repairs and it had 400 miles on it. His insurance company paid for it

He told me about that a few weeks ago, sucks. At least he still had the Toy to drive. I will prob give him **** about it every chance I get fo sho.

[Graystroke]

edge makes programmers for gas motors? I'll have to check it out.

[redcagepatrol]

I have a chip and use every last bit of that extra power while towing - especially when going into the wind like on the way back from Clayton this weekend with my rig, David's rig, and David's bike in tow

[DRAGOONRANCH]

10 years ago didn't need tuners....all you had to do was turn adjust the pressure at the injector pump. I've saw quite a few trucks back then that had this done.

or throw a bigger turbo on. Folks have been trying to get more power out of their vehicles ever since they first came about, it is just super easy now with all the plug and play electronics out there. I think some folks are just pissy that their gasoline engines are getting out run and out pulled by those 'old slow, smoky, smelly dirty diesels'.

[sasquatch]

moral of the story don't **** up a perfectly good truck with a gay programmer.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

moral of the story don't **** up a perfectly good truck with a gay programmer

I once heard somebody use that argument about parachuting. I think it went like this; "Why would anyone want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane?"

To which an old Airborne buddy of mine replied; "There is no such thing as a "PERFECT"ly good airplane."

Grandad's thoughts on the subject were that in his 26 years in B-47s and B-52s, he never had to use a parachute and never wanted to, but was always prepared to do so if the situation dictated.

[sammybeast]

So basically Dodge, or should I say Cummins, under engeneered there motor to be used by the normal guy.
If the chip was the leading cause of the blown injectors, why did my first injector blow?

[DRAGOONRANCH]

Logic is lost on this bunch at times.

[jerryg79]

So basically Dodge, or should I say Cummins, under engeneered there motor to be used by the normal guy.
If the chip was the leading cause of the blown injectors, why did my first injector blow?

if the motor was under-engineered, and you already blew an injector, why add a chip to increase the workload/strain on the injectors?

[sammybeast]

Before I bought it I did alot of research and everything that I had read over 2 years ago and the dealer all said that it would not affect the motor and was nothing but good.

[JB]

Wouldn't have happend to a gas truck.....
http://www.break.com/index/how-not-t...rough-atm.html

[sasquatch]

holy ****

[DRAGOONRANCH]

I don't think the type of fuel had anything to do with that.

It being a dodge? Maybe...

[Seth]

pause at 8 seconds, you can see how fvcked the truck got.

[Eckert]

So basically Dodge, or should I say Cummins, under engeneered there motor to be used by the normal guy.
If the chip was the leading cause of the blown injectors, why did my first injector blow?

inferior design. dodge/cummins saw the problem and fixed in with the 06-07 trucks. which dont have the injector problems, or alteast to the extent that the 03-05 do. they covered it under a 100k mile warrenty, dont they?

Before I bought it I did alot of research and everything that I had read over 2 years ago and the dealer all said that it would not affect the motor and was nothing but good.

your research is lacking. the increaed pressure is a no-no for the early CRD cummins.

it all comes down to you let someone else borrow your truck. and they fvcked it up. because they had no idea what they were doing. they would have most likely replaced another blown injector. but the 'tard behind the wheel kept driving it. much like pulling over for a flat tire, but he kept driving till he ground down the rotor.