A sad day!

[Captain Ledd]

It is likely one that slipped thru the cracks

It didn't slip through the cracks. It had serious safety issues and was straight up ignored. He was assured the truck was in good working order and had passed all it's inspections and safety checks. They never bothered to even look. Finding problems would mean costing them money, and they put this guy's (and others) life on the line because they're cheap. By buying a truck and having a quality inspection and assurance deal with it I'd sure as hell expect the thing to at least stop.

It's no wonder they're doing as poorly as they are. Take 'em to the cleaners.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

It didn't slip through the cracks. It had serious safety issues and was straight up ignored. He was assured the truck was in good working order and had passed all it's inspections and safety checks. They never bothered to even look. Finding problems would mean costing them money, and they put this guy's (and others) life on the line because they're cheap. By buying a truck and having a quality inspection and assurance deal with it I'd sure as hell expect the thing to at least stop.

It's no wonder they're doing as poorly as they are. Take 'em to the cleaners.

A dealership that does that regularly WILL NOT be around long. If it had been checked over they would know that it would give problems soon, maybe even on a test drive. At any rate this is a golden opertunity for them to make the customer feel good and do what he says.

Brakes are a no brainer, I don't understand the suspension thing, and if it slips out of gear at random it might be easy to miss during a quick drive to make sure everything is ok.

It must not have been too bad when it left, someone filled out a fairly substantial check for it a week ago.

 

[tony314]

It's in the Shop right now. The repair shop made it the first thing they brought in this morning. Waiting on word from the shop. The shop owner was there when I went in to get something I left in the truck and he said they are in the process of gutting the rear end to find all the issues and repair them.

 

[tony314]

Everything is right in the Universe once again. I have my baby back and she is driving much better now! They had to completely rebuild the rear brakes and replace EVERYTHING.

 

[Iron Ranger]

Everything is right in the Universe once again. I have my baby back and she is driving much better now! They had to completely rebuild the rear brakes and replace EVERYTHING.

Good.

They could've avoided this if they would've done it right in the first place!!

 

[Frank The Tank]

I am very happy for you.

But that sucks to be treated this way. I would request sexual favors from every employees wife, or gf................ jk "kinda" lol.

Frank

 

[Toms01PSD]

Glad you got it back. Atleast you didn't have a nail in the lines!

 

[tony314]

I would ask for sexual favors,but I seen the one guys wife and I'm pretty sure she'd brake something trying to woddle into my truck!

 

[Black'03LevelII]

what about the axle shifting and gears slipping? did they fix that too? say what the problem was?

 

[tony314]

The springs were replaced and the U bolts replaces too. The mount for the leaf springs was broken off. Not sure how it all didn't just fly apart!

 

[chvlfrk]

Hmmmm.........

The springs were replaced and the U bolts replaces too. The mount for the leaf springs was broken off. Not sure how it all didn't just fly apart!

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I'm assumin you bought this truck used?

Clear or salvage title?

Sounds like it was possibly a water damaged vehicle, heard of the kinda stuff you described on Katrina vehicles.............here in TN, after Katrina they wouldn't title water damaged vehicles............they were tagged as PARTS ONLY!

 

[tony314]

Whom ever owned it before me used to haul a massive boat around with it. That's why the rear brakes were almost rusted out and why the leaf springs were toast. .

 

[willied]

So you didn't get the truck inspected before you bought it?

 

[tony314]

They paid for the inspection. coughfakecough I'm sure!

 

[willied]

You should have taken it to a trusted mechanic. I got a Ranger looked at two days ago by a trusted mechanic and right away he told us it was junk for the price. It was a $12K truck and he said the right price would be $7-8K. It was 4x4 and the guy had been mudding it and he didn't wash it off so there was still mud under it and it was rusting and he couldn't get the brake off the rear.