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Woodham, Ontario | I had a 2012 Maxxforce13 in a feedtruck. Didn't drive a lot of miles with it, but too much idling, some hard work, gets reved up high to clean out the mixer. Put 7000 hours on it before deciding to trade it and took about 6 months for the new truck to be ordered and TMR mixer put on (ours got pushed back when someone needed their immediately. So it had 8000 hours on it when it left. It had a check engine light on for most of it's life here. EGR coolers were cleaned or replaced twice under warranty and we spent about $8,000 to service it out of emissions warranty. The way the engine is designed you will have to keep dealing with EGR issues as long as you own it. Looked at deleting it, but that is very expensive too and might make it harder to trade in. Later found out that they can't fully delete them yet and they would overfuel them trying to regen. The fuel pump is a big weak spot on these trucks, it failed twice, had to get towed in both times. $$$ Truck is always full of feed when it broke down.
Anyway, decided to look at trading and was pleasantly surprised at the difference and now we have a 2017 Western Star and it is a much better truck in every way!
We had a local shop that was affiliated with a bigger International Dealer so they could do warranty work and they were fantastic to work with. They understood that we need the feedtruck every day and they would come out if needed and they didn't always need a Credit card before doing any work like the big city dealers... | |
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How bad are International Maxxforce???
