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[mwilson]

I respectfully disagree, that is a dealership for sure...

Mopar sticker on forklift, Mopar logo on 55 gallon white plastic drum in shop. Lot full of new stuff.

Suspect it may be the heavy duty shop. Ram made some dealers do just that when they really started pushing the 4500 / 5500 series. Logic was that the shop had to be capable of lifting and working on upfitted cab/chassis trucks....

 

[mwilson]

Also notice the size of the lifts...

Those guys may not be in the public's view for the most part so the uniforms are not so important....if I went out out in our shop's today I guarantee most of the guys are dressed just the same....and we don't care just as long as the DD15 they send out the door doesn't have comebacks...

 

[Dl5treez]

That’s a dealership shop. Probably not the main service drive area but a back lot building or perhaps like was already noted, an off site “truck” shop.

Many dealers do it, and also many dealers don’t supply uniforms to their techs, or they give the techs choices as to what they want to wear. Coveralls, shirts and pants, shirts and jeans, just shirts, etc.

 

[AH64ID]

... also many dealers don’t supply uniforms to their techs, or they give the techs choices as to what they want to wear. Coveralls, shirts and pants, shirts and jeans, just shirts, etc.

My dealership experiance isn't limited, but not crazy either. I've never been to a dealership shop that didn't wear a specific uniform.

 

[mwilson]

It's 93 degrees here today....and we find our Maine comfort level to be right in the mid 60's so I bet they are all in T-shirts out there....no A/C in the shops up here ..

Counter guys and other customer facing roles are either in uniform or dress shirts....

 

[AnonEd]

I saw the ProMaster and just assumed it was one of Ram's "Commercial" dealerships. At a dealership used to work with the service dept was miles from the showroom, and only office personnel, porters and service writers were uniformed or "dressed." I wanted the wrenches in whatever was comfortable.

 

[Bug Out]

I would hope that at 4000 miles Cummins sends a whole new motor....

 

[Ltngdrvr]

I would hope that at 4000 miles Cummins sends a whole new motor....

That's the only way they would with a hole in both sides of the blown engine block.

 

[mwilson]

There is a line in the sand where you get a complete new engine versus a reman...

Unsure in the case of the Ram / Cummins union, but with big rigs it is around 20,000 miles from my experience. After that you get long blocks and such..

 

[Tuesdak]

ou can't outsource auto repair to China....

If it wasn't for the shipping cost, well, it may be in our future.

With the wait times now (2 weeks to get in for service.) and having to all but put a cash bounty on a service advisor to get a damn phone call back from some RAM (as well as the GM) dealers around here...

We have two new vehicles now and I lost touch being my own warranty station since 2010 due to "The Great Depression V2.0". Used to trade new gassers in every 2-3 years. I am really stunned at how bad communication is from dealership service departments now.

 

[mwilson]

There is a line in the sand where you get a complete new engine versus a reman...

Unsure in the case of the Ram / Cummins union, but with big rigs it is around 20,000 miles from my experience. After that you get long blocks and such..

To help explain this, the full dressed ready to install engine comes right off the line from an engine assembly plant.

Long blocks, short blocks, etc. come through
the parts system.

 

[Ozymandias]

It's 93 degrees here today....and we find our Maine comfort level to be right in the mid 60's so I bet they are all in T-shirts out there....no A/C in the shops up here ..

Counter guys and other customer facing roles are either in uniform or dress shirts....

LOL, need to fill the Gatorade fridges twice per day now?

 

[Larry Willard]

The guy that made that video has worked at several Ram dealers around this area, so I am going to say it's at a dealer.

 

[mwilson]

LOL, need to fill the Gatorade fridges twice per day now?

Oh yes, keep them hydrated for sure!!

 

[Ltngdrvr]

Here's a follow up video.
Not buying the explanation of how it blew up, that the owner "noticed a loss of power and stopped, then restarted it and noticed oil leaking"...
A catastrophic failure like connecting rods punching holes in the sides of the engine block happening doesn't cause you to just "notice a loss of power"! All kinds of bells and whistles would have been telling you something terrible was going on. And, I can't believe it restarted after blowing up.

 

[Dl5treez]

Have seen rod caps come off, exit out one side of the block while the rod pops out the other side, rendering a dead hole yet not losing all the oil and the engine continue to run down one cylinder.

Does not happen on a regular basis but can happen and surprisingly to many people it’s more common than they think especially in diesel applications.

Here's a follow up video.
Not buying the explanation of how it blew up, that the owner "noticed a loss of power and stopped, then restarted it and noticed oil leaking"...
A catastrophic failure like connecting rods punching holes in the sides of the engine block happening doesn't cause you to just "notice a loss of power"! All kinds of bells and whistles would have been telling you something terrible was going on. And, I can't believe it restarted after blowing up.

 

[gsbrockman]

Not so sure that the replacement engine is indeed a CP3......

See......told ya so.

 

[Ltngdrvr]

Have seen rod caps come off, exit out one side of the block while the rod pops out the other side, rendering a dead hole yet not losing all the oil and the engine continue to run down one cylinder.

Does not happen on a regular basis but can happen and surprisingly to many people it’s more common than they think especially in diesel applications.

Yeah, but that blown engine had holes punched on both sides of the block, and since they had to leave the converter on when they pulled it apart, apparently the engine would not turn over, so I don't see it being able to still run afterward.

 

[Dl5treez]

Hard to know the whole story. Could have ran for awhile then stopped. Could have ran until shut off, cooled off and locked up. Could have ran until a part went back in the hole and locked it up.

It is all a mystery. Other than it blew up that much is for certain lol

 

[GCroyle]

It is all a mystery. Other than it blew up that much is for certain lol

Yeah. We seem to be missing the hole story.

Ok I’ll go back to timeout now.