Paint chipping

[Jeremiah]

Suggestion to '03 purchasers: Buy a bottle of touch-up paint when you take delivery of your truck. I am getting a new peck or two every day I drive it on the highway. It's especially noticeable on the sides and around the wheel wells. Paint jobs aren't what they used to be.



Jeremiah

 

[JB @ C and L Machine]

not what I wanted to hear

I think the paint on my 99 is terrible. Is the primer still white?. . JB

 

[Casey Balvert]

And THAT is why I am putting running boards on my beast. It may not prevent them all but it sure will stop most of them. Cheers from the frozen north. The banana belt of Canada.



Casey

 

[Jeremiah]

Re: not what I wanted to hear

Originally posted by John B. Cohen

I think the paint on my 99 is terrible. Is the primer still white?. . JB

Yep.

 

[Jeremiah]

Winter oil

Originally posted by CBalvert

And THAT is why I am putting running boards on my beast. It may not prevent them all but it sure will stop most of them. Cheers from the frozen north. The banana belt of Canada.



Casey

I am quoting from a post I left elsewhere. Since you live in Canada, you might have an answer for me. I live in Colorado where it gets 20-30 below in the winter. The '03 owners manual says to use 5W30 synthetic below zero. I've always heard you shouldn't use synthetic oil in a Cummins engine until it was broken in. You have any info on this?



Best,



Jeremiah

 

[Casey Balvert]

Good question, Jeremiah. It only drops below zero occasionally here. Even so, when it gets down there, I stick with 15W40 oil, plug the block heater in at night and have never had a problem. You may want to pose that question on the Cummins website although there may be some folks WAY up north that have better information.



Casey

 

[Jeremiah]

Winter oil

Originally posted by CBalvert

Good question, Jeremiah. It only drops below zero occasionally here. Even so, when it gets down there, I stick with 15W40 oil, plug the block heater in at night and have never had a problem. You may want to pose that question on the Cummins website although there may be some folks WAY up north that have better information.



Casey

OK. I plug in the block heater whenever the temp goes below +20. The 15W40 will probably be fine. Maybe from December to February would be a good time to run the 5W30. But synthetic? I dunno ... Thanks for the response ... I'm sure some others will be chiming in. We'll see what they say.

 

[Pit Bull]

Don't use synthetic until your truck is broken-in around 20K miles (depending on how hard you work it, could be 12K miles). Plug in anytime it gets below 40 degrees. Once it is broken-in and you want to use a synthetic I would go with a 5W40 and run it year round.

 

[Prairie Dog]

I've got 2400 on mine now and not a single chip. Are there specific colors that are more prone to chipping? Or is it fate paying me back for the good and pure lifestyle I've lead?

 

[Casey Balvert]

Originally posted by Prairie Dog

I've got 2400 on mine now and not a single chip. Are there specific colors that are more prone to chipping? Or is it fate paying me back for the good and pure lifestyle I've lead?

It MUST be your lifestyle.



Casey

 

[lschultz]

Noticed one on my hood last week Thats when I got me a bottle of touch up paint.

 

[Jeremiah]

Oils

Originally posted by CBalvert

Casey, we were engaged in a conversation about oil a month or so ago and you were kind enough to post it as its own thread. I thought I would mention that after diligent research (i. e. , reading TDR posts) I decided NOT to use Premium Blue synthetic and to go with Rotella 10W40 in the winter and 15W40 in the summer.