Hope you're not expecting a new Isuzu diesel anytime soon..
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good lord, i can hardly see as how 80,000 miles on a truck engine with no blown head gaskets really says that much about whether there's a problem or not. Check back in a couple hundred thousand miles.
80,000 miles SHOULD be just getting broken in, and intact head gaskets at that point should be a given. If I worked in a dealer, on new and almost new trucks and had already seen 4 or 5 blown head gaskets, I would think that might mean something.
Not to get into the nitty gritty that you guys are hashing over, but I couldn't help but say something about the "80K and no bad head gaskets thing". For that kind of money, I would sure hope so! Have our expectations been lowered so far?
80,000 miles SHOULD be just getting broken in, and intact head gaskets at that point should be a given. If I worked in a dealer, on new and almost new trucks and had already seen 4 or 5 blown head gaskets, I would think that might mean something.
Not to get into the nitty gritty that you guys are hashing over, but I couldn't help but say something about the "80K and no bad head gaskets thing". For that kind of money, I would sure hope so! Have our expectations been lowered so far?
Fact is, if I claim my truck runs great, it doesn't mean a thing about the overall product. Just as an 80k mile Duramax means nothing about the overall product.
And for the record, I never said the Duramax was a bad engine. But the Duramax is not the stellar product that the Cummins engine is, and certainly it does not have the product reputation and track record of the B series, or of Cummins itself. As I said before, Isuzu was why the Duramax is what it is, and the GM people ought to thank Isuzu for that.
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Wow, Its crazy how fast these posts can turn awkward. I think ite time for the D-Max to start getting some respect. After all I'm glad to finnaly see some competition for our trucks
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i think there's something wrong with the board....i clicked on an isuzu getting out of the us car business thread, and found a thread containing argument over duramax aluminum cylinder heads.....who cares?
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Here is what gets me, Every truck has its issues, weather it be engine or transmission. I sure we could make a list of each maker(GM, ford, Dodge) and find plenty wrong with each generation, sometimes its hit or miss, you get a good one, the next guy down gets a bad one. I doubt there is any best as they all have issues, and well one may be better in area then the next, PesonalL I would like to see a Ford F350 megacab cummins. The only reason I choose my cummins is that Dodge was the easiest to find a Manual transsmission in.
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