Why no new posts in the engine failures thread?

They have not "petered out".

 

A core CDJR buyer is a value buyer. Stellantis forgot their customer base.

The previous gen owned the chrome look in vogue. The current Ram seeded the blackout look with lift and huge tires to GM largely and via mods Toyota. The non TRX Ram factory blackout and lift packages just don't look that great to me on the new body style. The removal of all crease lines in the body results in a smooth curved look that is harder to wear macho well

 

Confirming comment from Car Deal Guy this AM not specific to Ram but pick ups overall. Those that paid over MSRP are getting crushed.

 

Isn’t there a stop sale on 2023’s? Maybe not for you poor Canadians, eh.
Toyota US probably shipping’23’s north.

 

It is not only interest rates and inventory. It is companies downsizing and laying off. Trucks have high insurance premiums and and tax rates. It only makes sense when the economy is tanking people dump them for more economical cars.

 

As always you’d have to go into a dealer.

 

Last Ram dealer I went into before I bought my Tundra I spent 45 minutes trying to negotiate. The price they came back with kept rising the longer I was there. I had a $1500 Ram private offer in my pocket. They wanted to keep that for themselves as well

After dealing with 6-7 CDJR dealers sales or service departments I am convinced everyone that works there has been in prison at some point. Last week the dealership in Commerce GA which I looked at a truck at had an ex employee return with a van load of weapons and explosives to demand his job back. One of his charges was an ex con carrying a weapon.

Price is not only reason CDJR is sinking. Mucho shady dealer network

 

Is that a burr just hanging there?

 

That’s what it looks like.

 

Crap, what hole or bore are we looking at?

 

Possibly this one:

 

I can’t speak for the dealer down there . The dealer I use took $20k off this truck and gave me $5500 less than I paid for the trade in 4 years later .

 

Hear me out: what if we didn't buy vehicles that require favorable economic conditions for us to hang onto? Maybe we in fact should not depend on low interest rates and expected resale value to "afford" a vehicle.

Some people are learning this, good and hard.

 

Nissan dealers are as bad. If you are a franchise dealer of a maker blowing chunks you are living off of used cars and making zip on new ones unless you are scamming

 

sometimes you need the school of hard knocks, 100% agree the "afford" thing has got a little thin now for some.

also, the Feds mandating all this continue bullshit isnt helping to keep the costs down either of even the base models

 

High resale values depend on ever increasing MSRPs of same vehicle over the time of ownership to create a wide gap between a new one and old one. Not sure in 7-8 years 1/2 ton trucks are going to be stickering for $110k to create that gap for today's $80k truck to be a $60k used truck. Companies overshot in MSRP inflation so there will be a period of flat line correction or sales disappear

If you bought over sticker you are screwed

 

Bull shit. Ha! Not my family owned Nissan dealer going on over 60 years now. You consistently bag on Nissan a lot with no empirical data at all, just 2nd hand news. Come on.

 

Three have been news articles about how rough times are for Nissan dealers.

Article just last week about Nissan list all is Q1 profits in Q2 due to having to throw money to sell anything. Fact

My local dealer had a couple finance guys prosecuted for fraud last year. Reported on the local news. Fact

Your small town Sammy maybe pristine. But both Nissan and many of their dealers are hurting. Fact.

 

Denver isn't exactly a small town.

Wrong. Look at the year over year numbers. Maxima sucks. Always.Titan phased out. Empirical data. The new Ariya EV....nobody wants them. Too expensive. Tesla is the better option. Ariya brought the numbers down a bit along with the Maxima. Not by much. The Leaf is a joke. Nissan shouldn't have bypassed hybrid option. Numbers don't lie. Fact
Rogue numbers are sky high. I accidentally cut off the Rogue year over year along with the Pathfinder sales. BTW, I could care less about Nissan overall. Not a Nissan fanboy. I'm liking the constantly increasing affordable Frontier sales though. My motor is tight!

 

Interesting. Wonder if the “deburring” process was manual or digital (CNC). Hard to believe in this day and with over 100 yrs of ICE manufacturing under our belt, that stuff like this somehow goes un-noticed. Maybe we really are in a society in decline.

 

It's the current workforce ... Baby Boomers have left the chat

 

That and just a general lack of quality focus in today’s work. How quick can I leave and exhaust all my benefits, instead of having passion for your skill.

 

Back in the day, while in 3rd year mech Eng, we all had to take a semester of machine shop at a local highschool which was a trade school. I had already taken a couple of classes in HS, but one of the first rules is to debur all sharp edges.

 

I just had my not yet recalled 2023 engine seize on highway at 29k

 

Post here:
https://www.tundras.com/threads/3-4-i-force-engine-failures.121107/page-3

 

That really sucks, sorry. Was trying to be optimistic not seeing any recent failures.

 

The FB group I’m part of probably gets 2-4 a week that I notice. One was just posted a few mins ago it looks like.