05-21-2017, 08:38 AM
So to post a follow-up on this issue. After reading about the battery voltage possibly being the cause, I discovered that they were in fact low and once charged my Check engine light went away.
That is until I took it to Freightliner to have it checked out by an authorized Detroit Deisel shop for the new owner. Well, let me tell you that its was there 2 days and they could not figure out how to connect their diagnostic equipment, but yet they somehow knew that the coolant level sensor was an issue. I talked to the assistant service manager and asked if they tested the sensor itself, and he told me, and I quote, " No, because we don't know if it's bad."
I didn't quite understand that answer and I'm sure, after he said it, he must have realized how incompetent that answer sounded. This was Friday about 3:25pm and they wanted another day or two, not counting weekends, so they could continue their diagnostic ghost hunt. Now had I left it, they would've charged $940.00 just for diagnostic work. I declined but still had to pay $316.00 for two days of nothing.
Had they just told me, or maybe I should have thought to ask,when I initially called on the phone, that their technicians don't have a lot of experience with the 8V92, I would have taken elsewhere.
I told the new owner that unfortunately these engines come with one potential inconveinece: finding a competent mechanic that isn't retired.
That is until I took it to Freightliner to have it checked out by an authorized Detroit Deisel shop for the new owner. Well, let me tell you that its was there 2 days and they could not figure out how to connect their diagnostic equipment, but yet they somehow knew that the coolant level sensor was an issue. I talked to the assistant service manager and asked if they tested the sensor itself, and he told me, and I quote, " No, because we don't know if it's bad."
I didn't quite understand that answer and I'm sure, after he said it, he must have realized how incompetent that answer sounded. This was Friday about 3:25pm and they wanted another day or two, not counting weekends, so they could continue their diagnostic ghost hunt. Now had I left it, they would've charged $940.00 just for diagnostic work. I declined but still had to pay $316.00 for two days of nothing.
Had they just told me, or maybe I should have thought to ask,when I initially called on the phone, that their technicians don't have a lot of experience with the 8V92, I would have taken elsewhere.
I told the new owner that unfortunately these engines come with one potential inconveinece: finding a competent mechanic that isn't retired.