newer trucks
Just as a 'more data points'
The local window shop that installed my windows has been Fuso operators for a long time
(All FE trucks, although they covet my FG and I need to attach the PWA {Pitbull with Aids} to it when they are at my house :Wow1
They just purchased a new
Hino and are seeing all the same problems the new Fusos are having or had with the transmissions (must have forward movement to have any torque lockup, weird shifting), DEF, etc.
So it seems it might be an across the board problem with the newer trucks, not just Mitisubishi
(side note they had one of their FEs
{14,050 lb rating} at 29,450 lb
{measured on the scales} with no 'long term effects', other then it was pulling 6% grades at 20 mph).
hello alll
yes, the day of good old reliable trucks is gone, at least for the moment. comercial trucks are just that, made for work and constant expensive matainence and repairs which mostly only big companies can afford. and the trucks are built accordingly. a fun day to be had is too hang out at a big truck service center and talk to the mechanics, that will give you a pretty good idea of what your dealing with if you decide to buy a newer big truck. hino in fact should just be all recalled with the numerious problems they are now having.
the newer 2010 and on are almost a joke. with the fiat motor and completely bad transmissions, no low range and all wheel drive system you could almost say they are not 4wd vehicals at all. expedition travel capable, i dont think so. after this year of turmoil, my new difinition of a expedtion vehical is a vehical that can get you from here to there, be easy to work on if and when needed, and be able to travel most of the world with whatever fuels might be available.
i personally have spent 5 years trying to get a newer expedition camper built and do some extended traveling. my old unimog was slow, noisy and didnt have the luxury of the newer fuso, but i would have been traveling to the destinations ive dreamed of by now. although i have enjoyed the building process, it sure changes your priorites when now being retired and ready to travel im having to start over again in planning a more capable vehical before i can hit the road. i certainly cant imagine how i might be feeling now if i would have forked out a couple of hundred thousand on a ready built expedtion camper on a fuso chassis.
for those of you thinking of a expedtion type vehical, its important to take lots of time and decide what exactly your expectations are ??
a great example, i bought a new bmw gs in 1995. the first year of the r1100gs. although i had a great trip to alaska that year, i got lucky to be able to get parts early enough that summer (the dealers were taking parts off the showroom bikes to trry and keep people on the road) for the brake problems and in tank fuel filter problems the gs's were having. most people had to ship there bikes back home unable to continue riding them. the new gs are similar to the trucks in that if something goes wrong, your done. no going to any local shop for a repair. i put a 180000 on that bike over the years. but my first alaska trip almost ended badly.
with y recent truck experience, im actually looking at an 80's model bmw. my next trip i want to hit more remote areas in alaska, so my priorities are for a mechanical basied vehical that i can keep running even if there is a problem.
i guess im sharing my opinion on this, because i am meeting more and more people who really want to get into traveling by vehival to remote locations. and that great, but somewhere along the line there has been a nauve veiw of whats involved. i remember the very first couple i met out in the desert with an old unimog, they were on a shoestring budget and the guy had to just rebuild the engine head. that seemed so cool to me. and they were on there way to south america. this is a far cry from my dreams, driving down the road very near to there years later in limp mode, trying to find a fuso scanning tool to clear a dpf code because i ran into some cold weather.
enough babbling here, time to load my camper and use what i got and stop compalining lolllll enjoy your day
