For 50k and the popularity of them, they should be standard.
Well, nothings perfect man. As a matter of fact, as soon as they came out with the new fifth GEN body style they all have that now. But I feel your pain, it should be standard but here’s the deal; they didn’t have one so instead of making a big deal about it go to the part store and go buy you one- they’re not expensive. Easy peasy. Just be glad that we have stuff like that at the aftermarket to make our trucks however we want them.
And I realize 50 grand is a lot of money for just a basic pickup but if you think about it, if new trucks came out with all these little things that so many people wish they had, your truck wouldn’t cost 50,000; matter fact, it would be a whole lot more expensive than 50,000 so kind of be careful what you wish for because if that was the case, you probably wind up with all sorts of other **** that somebody else wanted that you may not want, but you’re by golly having to pay extra for it.
Common sense would dictate that having an easily serviceable fuel filter on a vehicle is always a good idea. It’s why alot of the cars and trucks sold today still have one. They have taken an otherwise simple and inexpensive maintenance item and made it way over complicated. One bad load of fuel and your dropping the tank to service it vs a 5 minute filter change when they were under the truck. I’m not a fan of this “maintenance free” ideology. It always end up costing more when things go wrong. They engineer today's vehicles to be more appealing to buyers as reduced maintenance costs but in reality the repair bills when things do go wrong are much higher. You're going to pay more in the end.
Maybe things are different where ayou live but in all the places I’ve lived, getting a bad load of fuel really doesn’t happen as often as you think it does. And if it does then don’t buy fuel there especially if it’s a known place that sells bad fuel. Besides that, every one of those gas pumps that pumps gas in your car have a pretty good high-quality filtration system that filters the gas before it even leaves the hose.
But I don’t know what other cars and trucks you’re talking about that actually has a serviceable fuel filter not counting anything that’s diesel but in all my 20 years of owning my own vehicles, I’ve never once had to deal with any kind of fuel filter being plugged up. As a matter of fact, the only time were I’ve had to deal with anything that was pump or filter related on a gas vehicle was on an old 96 Plymouth breeze that my mom has way back in the day that which, if you don’t know what that was, it was basically the Plymouth version of the Dodge Stratus but finally after she got close to 220,000 miles on that car the fuel pump finally went out so that’s why as far as I’m concerned, having a serviceable fuel filter is something you don’t need. But again, maybe things are different where you live. Other than that, the only time I’ve ever had to help anybody with a plugged up fuel filter has been on some old, ancient Chevrolet vehicle or GMC vehicle where the fuel filters kept stopping up but as far as on anything else that has the fuel filter inside the tank only one time have I ever had to mess with one and when I pulled out the old stock fuel pump, the filter wasn’t even plugged; it was just a bad pump that finally decided it wasn’t going to work anymore.
But you know, if you still think having a serviceable fuel filter is a good idea, I’m sure a quick search on the web somewhere and I bet you could find an aftermarket kit to put on your vehicle if you’re so worried about it.
And yeah, I don’t like this maintenance free ideology either, it still cracks me up that I’ve got a transmission in my truck that says pretty much as long as I’m not pulling a trailer all the time, not using it for any kind of fleet, taxi or commercial service and as long as I’m not doing a lot of off-road driving that I never have to change the oil in it. But if you look around on here there’s people that have gone close to and over 150,000 miles on these transmissions and haven’t had even change the oil in them one time. But also, if you look around you’ll see were people have found out how to change the oil and what fluid to use and everything else if your “maintenance free” transmission doesn’t make sense to you.
And you’re right, they do engineer these vehicles to be sort of somewhat maintenance free because so many people these days don’t even keep vehicles for any longer than 3 to 5 years so for most people, it’s really not even something to be concerned about.
Ever price one out to replace it? That says it all. It’s a stupid design. Their was nothing wrong with a simple fuse box and direct wire controls. But in the era of manufacturing cost cutting they pocket the $$ THEY save producing these cars and trucks and hand you, the consumer outrageous repair costs when things go wrong. How many pages is the AlfaOBD thread? The primary reason we need that is due to TIPM and the computerization of everything. I much prefer these trucks pre-TIPM where a simple test lights was all you needed. Their is no advantage to the end user having a TIPM over a standard electrical system with a fuse box and relays where needed. The TIPM is not your friend. Plenty of recalls and lawsuits because of them too. Garbage.
No, I never have priced one out because I’ve never had to replace one. But at least if I do, at least my lifetime warranty that I bought with my new pickup should cover something like that if it was ever to not work.
But ****, I thought that alpha OBD thing was a really good thing to have for those folks that don’t want to spend the money on a top-tier trim truck when they can just buy the basic tradesmen or Big Horn, get one of those alpha things and add all the stuff that they want for a whole lot cheaper price and the satisfaction of doing it themselves. But to question how everything is not so simple anymore, you’re also questioning computerized technology. I mean, this is 2020 where everything is becoming computerized. It already has been for many years. It’s the wave of the future; always has been. Hell, they thought that by 2015 that we’d be cruising around and flying cars… LOL. I’m surprised that hadn’t happened yet.
But I don’t know man, you kind of sound like one of those who can’t stand modern advancement and probably just needs to not buy anything brand new and go get you an old 70s or 80s whatever, fix that up to drive around.
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