The truck has been rock solid since day 1. My son had his Christmas Break so we decided to head out into the US of A and see some states he hadn't yet seen.
He gets the crazy idea to drive to Texas and I warn him it will quite possibly be one of the ugliest drives we'll ever take (no offense to anyone here but traveling east from Socal through Arizona, New Mexico and West Texas is an endless, near featureless landscape that's about a 12 hour shot to Las Cruces for the night, then into New Braunfels for another 7 or so after that.
We then drove up to Dallas, through Oklahoma, the panhandle, back through northern New Mexico and into Denver. Then finished the trip with a stay in Moab, including a little jaunt along the Colorado over frozen ruts that I thought would tear the truck apart, then Vegas, and finally... home.
Truck ran perfectly the whole way. The route shown was the original planned route but we added some miles here in there to cross into Oklahoma and take some scenic detours.
The very next day, my wife gets in the truck to take my daughter to work and within 5 minutes of leaving, I get the call that error messages abound.
The truck was bucking and reducing power to the engine, and there was significant rattling under the rear of the truck.
Dropped it off at the dealer and just got the call from my SA that it was a bad injector, harness or both, so they replaced them and the interesting thing is that they will be replacing my leaf springs!
I haven't done a search but I suspect this hasn't happened very often. The frozen ground was incredibly hard and yes the ruts rattled my teeth, but I felt no serious impacts that would do significant damage. It must've been the rapid, vicious shaking from the ruts that did them in I guess. Any ideas?
He gets the crazy idea to drive to Texas and I warn him it will quite possibly be one of the ugliest drives we'll ever take (no offense to anyone here but traveling east from Socal through Arizona, New Mexico and West Texas is an endless, near featureless landscape that's about a 12 hour shot to Las Cruces for the night, then into New Braunfels for another 7 or so after that.
We then drove up to Dallas, through Oklahoma, the panhandle, back through northern New Mexico and into Denver. Then finished the trip with a stay in Moab, including a little jaunt along the Colorado over frozen ruts that I thought would tear the truck apart, then Vegas, and finally... home.
Truck ran perfectly the whole way. The route shown was the original planned route but we added some miles here in there to cross into Oklahoma and take some scenic detours.
The very next day, my wife gets in the truck to take my daughter to work and within 5 minutes of leaving, I get the call that error messages abound.
The truck was bucking and reducing power to the engine, and there was significant rattling under the rear of the truck.
Dropped it off at the dealer and just got the call from my SA that it was a bad injector, harness or both, so they replaced them and the interesting thing is that they will be replacing my leaf springs!
I haven't done a search but I suspect this hasn't happened very often. The frozen ground was incredibly hard and yes the ruts rattled my teeth, but I felt no serious impacts that would do significant damage. It must've been the rapid, vicious shaking from the ruts that did them in I guess. Any ideas?
