Equipment failures and lack of parts

I thought that was teets or tires ? 

PACCAR(KW and Pete) does build the truck chassis and cab from ground up, suspension is a purchase as are axles and power train where Mack just closed their transmission facility to buy Less Expensive off the shelf gear train.  Nearly every small component for ALL trucks come from a outside supplier that also molds in PACCAR or KW or Pete or Mack etc etc etc.

Edited by DMiller - 18 Apr 2022 at 5:34pm

my thoughts.

Was there a point to all of that?  

jaybmiller wrote: One way to look at it  is... ...can YOU actually BUY a similar truck for $10 K, or even $15K ?? While I'm in a position that I can afford to buy a brand new F150 XLT fancy machine(even a battery powered one) I LIKE my old ride. A '97 F150 XLT with about 70K miles on it. Yes it needs some 'fixin up', but I can toss $1K every year, heck 2K every year for the next 2 decades and STILL be ahead moneywise. Big bonus is NOT having to deal with all that fancy computer KRAP and 'gadgets'. Yeah I sat 'on the fence' for about  a year, decided to KEEP and fix my truck. You should write down on paper what it needs and costs  in column 'A' then what replacement truck will cost in column 'B'.

Edited by Tbone95 - 18 Apr 2022 at 8:19am

Need complete Door assemblies, entire inner frame as well as skins issues, no one carries and hinges changed as well position of hinges to not allow newer doors to hang, Planned Obsolescence.

for the last week was considering saving my old F250.  Bought new 1999, Super Duty body line Super Cab and has been a dependable old beast.  So after a few days of looking thru availabilities have come to the conclusion NOT worth saving.  

As for what we want, what we're offered,  etc.  I get it.  Most of us here are plain country type folks who grew up wrenching on stuff.  So when it comes to "customer input", we are a minority type of customer.  But the reality is, customer input versus offerings ARE a real thing and it goes in cycles one feeding off the other.  A company offers a feature, charges more for it.  Turns out MAJORITY of people (present company excluded) like that feature.  Not only does the company make a little more money on the sale (WHAT THEY ARE IN BUSINESS TO DO), they then offer more features and by golly those are liked and bought by the majority as well, which makes the company more money, which they are in business to do.  If they don't they won't be in business for long.  It may not be a perfect system, but it is what we have and is better than others I've seen.  

And that Coke is the basis I wrote this for.  out of four weeks one week is lost to transit time losses and time in a facility most often getting a multiple regens until the damn DPF cleans up(EATING Fuel and DEF) and/or then a swap to a cleaned DPF while sensors got replaced as they too had failed during the events.

They DID do that with some Chrysler machines several years ago, supposedly can do with any of those as GMs system OnStar, Ford and Chrysler as well all the Foreign models can defeat or enable features without entering your car, KIA is noted in the news now doing so making certain features a Subscription and added fees for those.