Another bit: the dealers charging people a diagnostic fee to tell them if the car has a warrantable repair. What? Who does this? That is PATHETIC!
And the whole CBEA/CJAA intercooler icing/hydrolock problem... they know they have a problem with it. They have an updated intercooler to help with it. But do they install those under warranty? Show of hands who has had this done. The dealer I get parts from didn't even know this existed. I had to spoon feed them the part numbers.
The DPFs cracking. It was an issue before. Guess what? It's worse now. Because the only way to lower NOx, the pollutant that the EPA has such a hard on over, can only be done a couple ways. Since they were not going to overlay an entire SCR retrofit (which, clearly doesn't do what they want, or the CKRA, the V6s, and all the 2015s, would have just required a simple software change... but instead all the manual CKRA cars were deemed "unfixable") means more EGR. More EGR means more low pressure EGR duty cycle, which means more of the intercooler problem potential. And of course, more fuel use... which means, more DPF regens. But hey, part of the fix was to remove the low pressure EGR filter tube, and replace it with a straight pipe. So now when your DPF cracks, which it will because it is being used ~20% more, it won't clog that filter, it'll simply send all the soot right into the entire EGR system. So now, when we have to drain the sludgy icy condensate that collected in the lower intercooler tube, it is also tainted black with pre-DPF pre-catalyst exhaust soot. Imagine a coal slushy. MmmmMMMmmmmmm....
And every Fall, when the cold weather starts, the tows start coming in.