Picking up my new Dodge Ram today

[Woodtroll]

It's hard to tell how many computers that damaged wiring harness shorted out.

 

[FergusonTO35]

Holy Smokes. Everything was put back together, service manager put a 100 miles on it, was about to green light it as good to go, then every single light on the dash lite up, every error in the book is now triggered, and will not go away no matter what. This truck is possessed. Manager says, at least it is no longer intermittent.

An area tech is coming out in a few days to do his thing, and vows not to leave til it is fixed.

I'm back to being MAD!!!

Demand a full refund and just walk away, right now.

 

[redneckhillbilly]

seriously, dirtbag sales people and service writers will push a pile of junk on a guy and not even loose a lick of sleep over it.

 

[legdelimber]

I have a Mazda pickup. At less than 80k, the truck started throwing random codes.
The slip rings in the alternator were trenched. The truck is bone stock, including the radio. No extra lights or other doodads.

I went through three alternators from NAPA to find one that the windings weren't nicked or the slip rings didn't have dents from being tossed around during manufacturing.
Or obviously had one bad phase or diodes, just from looking at the test sheet that's packed with each unit.
I was baffled as to why that one was ever boxed and shipped out.

The dented ones had broken the insert of the machine/lathe and so the surfaces were rough as sandpaper. That would have eaten the brushes in a few weeks.

What's funny is that I saw no dimming or flickering of lights in the truck.

Sister's Honda was doing similar things with the dash and code lights..
Alternator was worn out.

Holy Smokes. Everything was put back together, service manager put a 100 miles on it, was about to green light it as good to go, then every single light on the dash lite up, every error in the book is now triggered, and will not go away no matter what. This truck is possessed. Manager says, at least it is no longer intermittent.

An area tech is coming out in a few days to do his thing, and vows not to leave til it is fixed.

I'm back to being MAD!!!

 

[Lions fan]

I have a Mazda pickup. At less than 80k, the truck started throwing random codes.
The slip rings in the alternator were trenched. The truck is bone stock, including the radio. No extra lights or other doodads.

I went through three alternators from NAPA to find one that the windings weren't nicked or the slip rings didn't have dents from being tossed around during manufacturing.
Or obviously had one bad phase or diodes, just from looking at the test sheet that's packed with each unit.
I was baffled as to why that one was ever boxed and shipped out.

The dented ones had broken the insert of the machine/lathe and so the surfaces were rough as sandpaper. That would have eaten the brushes in a few weeks.

What's funny is that I saw no dimming or flickering of lights in the truck.

Sister's Honda was doing similar things with the dash and code lights..
Alternator was worn out.

Sounds familiar. I replaced one last week on an E-450 bus and it was junk, out of the box, from Napa. They brought up another one, had to take a grinder to the mounting bracket to make it fit. It lasted 2 days before failing.

 

[Woodtroll]

Demand a full refund and just walk away, right now.

Yep, I think it's time.