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This last week I had a discussion with my son who's an auto insurance adjuster. Somehow we got talking about pickup fires. He's dealt with a LOT of them. However, he said in the last 6 or 8 years he's not had a single claim for a fire in a Tundra. The way they're designed, they just don't catch fire.
He said the simplest ones were in Ford pickups. A while back they had a recall for the brake master cylinder because the caps would drip brake fluid. Directly under the master cyl was an electrical box. The fluid would drip into the box and short out the wires. Foof! Instant engine fire. Ford recalled them and the fix was simple - they just replaced the master cyl cap. Problem gone.
He checked out my '08 Dodge Cummins. He only found 1 recall on it - a part in the steering linkage. I had mine checked for that a couple years ago and it was good. Also, fires were very few.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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220 Swift still king.
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Don't worry me enough to buy one of them things. mtmuley
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Tundra = good truck.........
T R U M P W O N !
U L T R A M A G A !
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I was driving a 2002 F-150 that was recalled because of the fires. Never knew exactly what they did before now.
Most people don't really want the truth.
They just want constant reassurance that what they believe is the truth.
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A friend of mine had a f150 burn in his driveway, what a pos.
Eating fried chicken and watermelon since 1972.
You tell me how I ought to be, yet you don't even know your own sexuality,, the philosopher,,, you know so much about nothing at all. Chuck Schuldiner
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And that's why why you don't park a Ford in the garage...
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