The DPF was a "special" load. Soot is CARBON. It'll settle down, wash away, break down and return to nature. It just looks "nasty" (to the enviro-nuts). BTW, what happens when it regens?? uhhh.... More "emissions"? That soot's gotta go SOMEWHERE!
: ). What now? What are you going to do.
why is everyone bitching about the urea? Its not going to be that bad/that big a deal, honestly.
Its going to be GREAT for the trucks, im excited for it. It will clean up the air, do wonders for fuel economy, and SOMEONE ANSWER ME.....WHAT IS THE DOWNSIDE????? There is NONE. I challenge someone to come up with a legit argument for a downside to it.
and I dont want to hear "well the trucks worked fine without it, its just one more thing to break!!!". Thats such a poor answer/argument, look at all the complicated technology that has been on the duramax since 2001...HPCR fuel injection, a body thats completely run on a computer data bus, completely electronic transmission, drive by wire, etc... I guarantee you all that crap is wayyy more complicated and failure prone from a technological standpoint than the entire urea-system.
You guys are all just being stubborn and dismissing it because OMG its some NEW technology.
and before everyone starts getting all up in arms about it, READ THE DETAILS. It will NOT go into limp mode WHILE DRIVING. If you drive it until the tank is empty, it will ding and say "speed limited upon next restart".
as for the cost of urea, you have to refill it every 5,000 miles and it costs about 2.50 a gallon, and the tank holds 5 gallons. If you are spending 50k++ on a diesel pickup truck, STFU, you can afford an extra 13 dollars every 5,000 miles.
Rant off, no offense meant to anyone...
ben
one question- can one not just buy a spare ECM to use as their tuning ECM to avoid the refusal of warranty? yes this may cost more than the current options, but who really thinks things will ever be cheaper? when have things ever gotten cheaper in the past? i don't mind the urea injection at all, it's not rocket science. hell if someone doesnt understand how to do it, send them to my house, i'll fix them right up
yeah, us weenie city slickers. Please pleaaaaase dont play that card, I used to drive into canada fairly often where you're on a desolate road for 200 miles and its -30* out, so I know what its like to pray your truck doesnt break down. Just because we arent REAL MEN up in the yukon doing ice road trucking doesnt mean we dont put our life in the hands of a working truck.
Driving in Eastern Canada where 65% of the population lives doesn't count unless your up around Hudson Bay. When was the last time you personally drove out there for 5 hrs and never saw another living thing Ben? I bet never!! Ice road trucking and real men as you call them has nothing to do with this. I'm talking about people that have to work in places where most ride their sleds because they are easier to get around with and are more reliable!! And yes many don't shut their trucks off because they won't start again. I shut my service truck down everytime I fuel up to check oil and that's it when I worked up north. The rest of the time it was running until it warmed up to-20C.
So say if someone wants to play the "what if" card. You're in an LBZ in the middle of nowhere and you get a short in the wiring and fry the ECM. Your in the middle of nowhere in an LB7 and your injectors fail and fill the crankcase with diesel. You're in an LBZ and your trans cooler lines freeze and the transmission fries (because that NEVER happends on the LBZ's in extreme cold!!
seriously guys. If it scares you, then enjoy your LMM or older and dont buy a new truck. But thats no reason to scare everyone else out of buying one. Doomsday theorists of the world unite, jeezuz.
ben
