To Warranty or Not to Warranty ,that is the question
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To Warranty or Not to Warranty ,that is the question
I'm going to get the '01 3500 this week. The dealer has offered a 5yr. 50,000 mile drivetrain service contract. If I take it the vp's covered but cant make any mods. I asked about a Fass installation and he said it would just give DC a reason to deny coverage. The cost of a vp is over half of the contract price, but as a cummins runner for 35+ yrs, I sure would like to fix the dependability problems on this truck.
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My warrantee states that everything's covered. But interestingly there isn't a whole lot that is fully covered, for instance the trac bar wasn't covered as a warranty item but the other front end components are. Mine cost me 1500 and I have already recouped it after the front end rebuild. If the VP goes within the next year and a half that is covered also, but I don't want the vp in the fuel tank, which is the warranted repair at the dealer. I can take my truck to whomever I wish to have the work done so I may be able to get the stock pump and vp replaced at one of the local deisel shops that work on Cummins stuff. I will eventually replace/relocate the stock pump w/an aftermarket system when I have some extra dough. The writing usually states that the aftermarket pump must be proven as the reason for the vp's failure but this can turn into a nightmare when dealing w/ the dealership idiots and could tie up your truck for quite a while.
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