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Posted by Wayne on June 12, 2004 at 21:29:51 from (152.163.253.97):
Talked to one of the head man in our local Komatsu dealers shop the other day. I had already heard bits and pieces of what's starting to happen out there in the equipment industry because of the TIER compliant engines, but what I was told the other day seems to be completely ignorant. According to what their being told at the dealership, when the new engines hit the market and make it back into the shop for "service" there isn't really much "servicing" they are gonna be allowed to do. The example he gave me was that if an engines RPM was off by more than 50 from spec, they aren't gonna be able to adjust it, your gonna have to buy a new fuel pump and hope it fixes the problem...if not then????. I've already talked to another mechanic with one of the big local construction companies and he said they aren't letting them rebuild the "complient" engines in their machines. They have to knock a hole in the block and dispose of the old one and buy a new one. Anybody bought a brand new fuel pump lately.....how about a complete engine.....Ain't neither one of them going cheap.....Personally I think it's gonna get to the point companies are gonna stop buying new equipment and go back to the old stuff that can be easily and cheaply repaired. I'm just waiting for the day when all those $500,000 machines out there get shutdown by a fifty cent o-ring that just happens to be in a non repairable component that's gonna cost an aditional $100,000 to replace. I believe the consumer is gonna get stuck with the bills in the beginning, but eventually it's gonna work it's way back up and start hitting the big contractors in the bottom line and all He-- is gonna break loose in Washington. Can you see every contractor out there going on strike and refusing to do any work for the Feds til things are straightened out???? The biggest question, and i know it's touched on on here all the time, is just in general when are we as Americas gonna take America back from "The Government". Just my .02 on the subject....
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