RE: Two Week Report

From: Bridges, Bruce (bbridges@alarismed.com)
Date: Fri Feb 19 1999 - 12:43:29 EST

Dr. Leon,
My comments:
When they re-set your computer did they retard the timing or just disconnect
your battery and re-connect it? If they just discod and recod it then your
pinging will return! I have never heard of premium fuel causing build up
(just slower combustion process), and if my truck were pinging the first
thing Id do is put premium in it! The dealer sounds like he is building an
excuse for not fixing the pinging by stating that you caused a carbon build
up in the cylinder head (the OLD common cause of pinging) Now adays that is
pure BS! NO One should ever need to "decoke" a modern engine unless your
running contaminated gas in it. Did the dealer do the manifold gasket
leak test? If not, they should! I have heard that the manifold plate
gasket can cause pinging if it leaks, and it has been known to leak on brand
new trucks!
Your dealer's service mangler sounds like he needs your services to pull his
head out of his A** and get on with fixing your truck!!

Sheesh.... Ive lost all faith in dealers...
BKB 

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---Original Message-----
From: Dr. Leon Berman [mailto:stshack@nwlink.com]
Sent: Friday, February 19, 1999 9:30 AM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: DML: Two Week Report

Well folks two weeks have gone by with the New DAK - the 318 is purring 
along...as long as I don't step too hard on the gas.

Here's the Report:

Severe Pinging when I step hard on the gas or going uphill
	Dealer reset computer - it helped a bit, but it still pings.

Passenger window wouldn't go back up.
     Dealer wiggled the wires in the door jamb, and then it worked.
     couldn't find anything loose once the door was taken apart, so 
	they ordered a new switch....???? Strange remedy.

And one more note: I was given a stern lecture about the type of gas
I was using in the DAK and to quit using Supreme (high octane). The 
service manager at the dealer told me that the higher octane will create 
bad carbon buildup in the engine....??? Any comments folks?

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Besides those few things, my Dak is the most comfortable, easy to drive
vehicle I've driven in a long time - and man, it sure is easy to pass the 
slower vehicles.  

Dr Leon Berman
The Proctologist Of Rock 'n' Roll
90.3 fm KCMU Seattle
1-800-824-1601

"It takes A big man to cry...it takes 
a bigger man to laugh at that man"

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