well, i was driving down the i-10 (at about 70 mpg) on my way to Orlando to visit some family for thanksgiving and my truck all of the sudden threw a CEL and starting running like crap and had no power. cycled the key to find out code p2149 popped up. so now i'm stuck on the side of the highway. luckily i had a good friend w/ a gooseneck trailer that was able to come and pick me up. i was 2 hrs away from my house. I've done some searching but i hadn't found any treads where people came back on to let us know what happened to fix their problems. i've checked the connections for the injectors but it didn't change anything.

well, the dealer ended up screwing me on the deal. they said the #5 injector failed and the tech hadn't seen an injector fail like that before so he called dodge or cummins tech department and they told them the only way the injectors fail like that was if it had a tuner on it (which i don't yet). the manager said that he had no prof that it had one so they didn't void the warranty on the truck but they were not going to cover the 1k bill to replace the injector. i think this is BS! they should have paid this, i have done nothing to the truck to cause this. i didn't want to pay for this but i need to get my truck fixed so i could still make it down for the holidays (i'll be in the desert this time next year). so now i've got to try to see if i can get my money reimbursed. this is just frustrating!!!! i'll let ya'll know what happens.

 

Just be happy that it didn't score a cylinder. But it does suck when they try and hamstring a guy over nothing.

 

how would it score a cylinder?

 

Cylinder gets flooded with diesel and it washes the oil off the cylinder wall. Pretty soon scored cylinder and piston.

 

is there anyway to check that?

 

Bore scope, or you can tell by how it runs. It seem to run good still?

 

yeah, like nothing really happened.

 

No way would I pay for this. You did nothing wrong.

Seriously I would have took the keys and drove away with them screaming you cant do that!

 

i'll be talking w/ them tomorrow about getting my money back. i'll let ya'll know what happens.

 

heck yeah man that's not right. If u had a tuner and tried playing it offs one thing. But not having one and them not believing it is bs