Freightliner and MB motors??
- Thread starter jharvey
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All I can tell you is what I hear on the street: Freightliner is on the below average side of quality compared to other brands.
M/B diesels are nice, but I gotta think they're expensive to work on compared to IH or Cummins or Detroit. Probably a lot like CAT.
My gut feeling would be that it would be fine as a new truck under warranty, but once it expires, it could be expensive to repair & maintain.
A company I buy lumber from stopped buying IH and went to Freighties. They don't like any of them and are now buying IH again.
Another yard I do business with has 2 of them, both less than 4 years old, they look really bad already. Kind of like they're falling apart.
I sat in the cab of their tandem and thought it was very nice inside. I also think they're good looking trucks.
M/B diesels are nice, but I gotta think they're expensive to work on compared to IH or Cummins or Detroit. Probably a lot like CAT.
My gut feeling would be that it would be fine as a new truck under warranty, but once it expires, it could be expensive to repair & maintain.
A company I buy lumber from stopped buying IH and went to Freighties. They don't like any of them and are now buying IH again.
Another yard I do business with has 2 of them, both less than 4 years old, they look really bad already. Kind of like they're falling apart.
I sat in the cab of their tandem and thought it was very nice inside. I also think they're good looking trucks.
Truckie
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I know the older M/B motors are good, the ones that are in the Lebehrs, on the heavy equipment. I cant comment on the newer ones as I have not worked on them and have not heard any gossip on them.
Brickman
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From what I hear on the street, not good.
Once heard of a $1800 alternator that took most of a week to get shipped into where this dudes truck was down. MB parts are high from what I hear.
Once heard of a $1800 alternator that took most of a week to get shipped into where this dudes truck was down. MB parts are high from what I hear.
ndurbin
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I've wrenched on a few. Their not any worse than anything else I've worked on as far as ease of maintence goes. The trucking company I usto work for has about a dozen of the 500 hp models in some Freightliner Class 8s running around. I never heard any complaints about them from the drivers. Is fun to get into the DDEC system to see what the drivers have been upto tho.
Nathan
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