ronheater70
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Have had a whine in the rear end for almost 4K miles of the 6K on it.
Dropped it off at dealer for diagnosis..it does it on both acceleration AND deceleration at 62-70 ish.. My thought a bearing.
After 4 days at dealer, diagnosis.. Normal.. " Its a heavy duty thing"
Good Grief..
Like I said Expected after reading on here. said the tech drove another one new and it did it so it's normal..
My thoughts, at what point do you even NEED to drive another vehicle to see if a gear whine in the rear end is normal..
Gear whine-rear end, NOT NORMAL, end of story. No need to drive anything else.
Service manager is very polite, and at this point I am too.. and will continue to be.
It's actually a blessing because my Camper is in for service at the same time and if they did do something to the rear end, I would have had to go through all the break in procedures again before towing camper home after service.
I will wait a few weeks and schedule a ride along with a technician in a NEW truck and then compare to mine..
Its still kinda light at this point, but a trained ear knows it's there.
I'l compare this to my little commuter work car, a 2009 Nissan Altima that has about 165K on it. I took it to the dealer 2 weeks ago for a problem with the intelligent key system. Turns out that the part the was failing (steering lock controller) had an extended warranty on it until January 2016 because of potential problems on it for 09 Altimas..the dealership replaced the part and got me on my way and covered it under that extended warranty, even though it had expired 1.5 years ago. Hell Is ANYTHING warranty on a car with 165k miles on it..Outstanding service. I bought it at that dealer with 50K on it, and it had only been in twice for non routine service (this being the second time, the first was a break switch)
Dropped it off at dealer for diagnosis..it does it on both acceleration AND deceleration at 62-70 ish.. My thought a bearing.
After 4 days at dealer, diagnosis.. Normal.. " Its a heavy duty thing"
Good Grief..
Like I said Expected after reading on here. said the tech drove another one new and it did it so it's normal..
My thoughts, at what point do you even NEED to drive another vehicle to see if a gear whine in the rear end is normal..
Gear whine-rear end, NOT NORMAL, end of story. No need to drive anything else.
Service manager is very polite, and at this point I am too.. and will continue to be.
It's actually a blessing because my Camper is in for service at the same time and if they did do something to the rear end, I would have had to go through all the break in procedures again before towing camper home after service.
I will wait a few weeks and schedule a ride along with a technician in a NEW truck and then compare to mine..
Its still kinda light at this point, but a trained ear knows it's there.
I'l compare this to my little commuter work car, a 2009 Nissan Altima that has about 165K on it. I took it to the dealer 2 weeks ago for a problem with the intelligent key system. Turns out that the part the was failing (steering lock controller) had an extended warranty on it until January 2016 because of potential problems on it for 09 Altimas..the dealership replaced the part and got me on my way and covered it under that extended warranty, even though it had expired 1.5 years ago. Hell Is ANYTHING warranty on a car with 165k miles on it..Outstanding service. I bought it at that dealer with 50K on it, and it had only been in twice for non routine service (this being the second time, the first was a break switch)
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