2nd Gen Non-Engine/Transmission Priceless Video

[cojhl2]

From my understanding he won the law suit. price of the truck and attorneys fees. did he stick with the chevy or what did he buy after that??

What are our courts coming to? What was the lawsuit premise?



Was it that the Duramax should not have gone to limp after beating it to death?



Was it that it could not keep up with another vehicle?



Was there a guarantee that that the GM would beat a Dodge in all cases?



Was there a deficiency in the design,, I think not the guages and bell were providing warning.



The driver of this vehicle intentionally beat the GM to death!



I bet my 67 Chev 250 could not keep up either! Could I win a lawsuit??



This kind of stuff makes me sick to think what we are coming to.



Edit,, fixed a spelling error

 

[DennyDay]

This guy is an IDIOT - - - with everything else he did wrong, he spent the whole time in the left lane, AND destroyed a truck. Some one else pointed out the other errors.

Ya' and I'll bet that Dodge owner was playing with him!!!!!!



Also shows how bad the court system is in this country.



Denny

 

[JasonCzerak]

What are our courts coming to? What was the lawsuit premise?



Was it that the Duramax should not have gone to limp after beating it to death?



Was it that it could not keep up with another vehicle?



Was there a guarantee that that the GM would beat a Dodge in all cases?



Was there a deficiency in the design,, I think not the guages and bell were providing warning.



The driver of this vehicle intentionally beat the GM to death!



I bet my 67 Chev 250 could not keep up either! Could I win a lawsuit??



This kind of stuff makes me sick to think what we are coming to.



Edit,, fixed a spelling error

I agree 80%. But I think he has a little argument.



80% of me says: "shut up retard, put your tail between your legs and sell you truck, slow down or deal with it"



The 20% says. "GM has the largest towing, blah blah blah" advertised (until ford of dodge turns it up a notch a month later.



Now, when you have a stock truck that has 350hp and 650foot#'s and unable to keep up with a stock truck (well, appears stock) that had what? 250hp? 500foot#'s and close to 10 years of age. (I'm ignorant to that year dodge's exact specs), there's something wrong there.



One things' for sure, if there were any warranty claims on that truck, GM would have proof to deny on the account of stupidity in the 1st degree!

 

[JasonCzerak]

This guy is an IDIOT - - - with everything else he did wrong, he spent the whole time in the left lane, AND destroyed a truck. Some one else pointed out the other errors.

Ya' and I'll bet that Dodge owner was playing with him!!!!!!



Also shows how bad the court system is in this country.



Denny

Yep, the state of Texas should issue him a ticket or two for a few things I'm sure.

 

[BigIronRam]

From my understanding he won the law suit. price of the truck and attorneys fees. did he stick with the chevy or what did he buy after that??

Got a link or anything for that?



Robert

 

[JCyrbok]

If u go to the link(the one where the guy has the BIG radiator) in the first page of this thread u will find the info on the law suit. I just read it and it appears that he won his suit and received(will receive) $30,500 from GM plus he got to keep the truck!. After reading on the other site that the link takes u to it appears that this was the second engine in that particular truck due to overheating issues. Appears to be a trend on that site, while although not as bad as our LP's, that many people have some degree of problem with overheating at some point in those D-Max's.



One problem that I have is that if u look at the way he set up the test is that he is trying to go as fast as he can, uphill with a U-haul truck (big parachute) on a trailer in 90degree weather in Texas. No wonder the truck overheats. And while I feel that the truck should perform as advertised and tow what GM says it should he also set the test up to fail big time.



I would have been a hell of alot more swayed by it overheating on level ground or having problems while no where near max GCVW.



Sure am glad that I drive a 01. 5 "Inferior" Cummins 24V :-laf .



J-

 

[CFast]

is the guy in the picture the same booger eatin moron that ruined his truck? What a tool. And how stupid was the trial. This guy has proof he ran his truck into the ground, and they give him money. What if the only problem was a bad radiator cap or plugged radiator? This guys stupidity really pi$$ES me off. "huh my truck is a duramax it can do anything, I don't have to pay attention to gauges, i'll just run it till it stops. " wouldn't want to actually slow down or GOD forbid, STOP AND SEE WHAT THE PROBLEM IS. NO I'LL JUST WHINE ABOUT THAT INFERIOR DODGE AND HOW IT'S KICKING MY STUPID duracracks!!! MORON!!! I feel sorry for his family and friends.

 

[Oasis-3]

Priceless

ROTFLMAO Oo. Oo. Oo.

I had to watch it 2 times I was becaused I missed some of it the first time.

That is Priceless Thanks for posting it.

Now someone fess up who was driving the Dodge :-laf :-laf :-laf



Cliff

 

[Sled Dog]

This is exactly why I got my 01! The guy is the dodge is probably on cruise control a/c on listening to the radio having a good time and everything is running fine.

LOL!!! Way to go duramax. Sure glad I didn't get one.

EXACTLY, and he probably doesn't realize that a. . hole in the Dmax is back there! :-laf



I kept waiting for the guy in the Cummins to wake up and go outta sight on him! :-laf :-laf

 

[J Shocik]

I thought they had laws against stupidity in Texas. Here in Mass. they would have made him a senator, or maybe the mayor of Boston... :-laf



I couldn't help but notice him in the left lane the whole time doing around 55 or so and the speed limit on that road was 80. And the whining about the inferior Dodge... He HAD to have made the skit on old Saturday Night Live TV shows about "The Whiners".

 

[JStrasser]

I had posted a response to this topic yesterday but removed it after reading entries on other forums. While I disagree with setting up a "test" to deliberately cause any engine to fail, apparently this guy has been given a huge run around by GM regarding his warranty (where else have we heard people complaining about THAT topic?) Here are a couple of the GM forums:



The Diesel Spot



The Diesel Place



Go to either one and search "overheating". From what I have read, especially the "LLY" Duramax ('04 to'06), and only some trucks, has an overheating problem when towing- kind of like Dodge lift pumps and Ford, well they just have their problems also... ... .



Again, not trying to defend this guy, but it was the 2nd engine that he was "testing" after GM had replaced the 1st engine while denying that the Duramax had any overheating problems. GM had actually raised the threshold that activated the overheating alarms in this guys truck to make it appear that he didn't have a problem. Some of his posts make for some interesting reading. Gets you thinking about us vs. auto companies and hoping that no one has to go through this.



"Food for thought"

John

 

[george]

How hot could the outside temperature be in October? The entire time watching this video/commerical for Dodge Cummins, I was thinking about July or August

 

[troll3193]

I couldn't help but notice him in the left lane the whole time doing around 55 or so and the speed limit on that road was 80.

And holding on to a camcorder while driving a loaded truck/trailer, and he even answered the phone while driving and taping his stupidity...



What a moron,



Bryan

 

[SMolteberg]

Yeah, I noticed this also. Here the guy are yapping away how he almost got run over by a big rig and blaming it was GM's fault that it put him in an unsafe situation. Come on, here he is doing 20-25 below speedlimit in the hammer lane videotaping and talking on the cell phone while the alarm for overheated engine have been sounding for five minutes. Why be surprised when the truck goes into limp mode? The truck only protected itself from pure stupidity.



OK, if the truck have an overheating problem, does that give you any right to run it into the ground? If he had just backed off a little bit he would have been just fine, but his pride was too hurt when the cummins outpulled him. Turned out that the old inferior cummins actually where the Superior



Volvo wheel-loaders have a neat system for these morons. If the alarm goes off for low oilpressure, possible overheat or other seriouse situations the sound of the alarm is so loud it's impossible to continue operating. If you don't shut down imidiatly you will go deaf pretty quick.

 

[bmoeller]

I love how he keeps saying that the Duramax is a superior engine and should outrun the Dodge. Huh? Did he realize that he was behind the Cummins?

He knew it was a Cummins, but couldn't absorb that his truck was getting whooped up on. "What? Some OLD Dodge is kicking my butt?" :-laf



Too bad though. With todays technology, there isn't any reason that the truck shouldn't be able to keep cool with a load that is within the trucks ratings.



I'm also curious what the EGTs were. And, if the DMax is bone stock or not. Either way, he shouldv't had the power to keep up wthe Dodge, depending on what BOMBs it has, of corse. Didn't see any smoke, so it looks to be tuned quite nicely. At least with the PDR 40, I still couldn't clean up my smoke with a trailer, even at 20# boost crusing. Haven't towed with the new one yet.

 

[Nate]

I couldn't believe that guy was driving in the hammer lane doing way under the speed limit, video taping and talking on the cell phone... all with a trailer. ***??

 

[Signal73]

what a crybaby :{ :-laf

 

[cojhl2]

The Diesel Spot

The Diesel Place



Go to either one and search "overheating". From what I have read, especially the "LLY" Duramax ('04 to'06), and only some trucks, has an overheating problem when towing- kind of like Dodge lift pumps and Ford, well they just have their problems also... ... .



John

So what we are saying is: No matter how I drive the engine should not overheat!!!!



All engines I have ever driven (especially a diesel) can be driven to death. . It takes some brains to understand that and drive to the engines ability.



I drive a 359 with a 3406B and I betcha within a few miles I could have that truck on the bonepile too. .



The fact is no matter what the advertising says this Duramax engine could not keep up with the Dodge.

 

[rattlbox]

I'm also curious what the EGTs were.

that was my question with the intake air temp. up over 100 degrees... i but under hood temp. was unbelievable... just goes to show what kind of idiots are out there

 

[Yo Hoot]

You can't say he was beating on the truck at all. If so wouldn't the Dodge in front of him be getting beat too? Sure didn't look that way. How do we know it wasn't a woman driving the Dodge whipping up on the "manly" Dmax :-laf :-laf