2013 MX 13

Caterpillar makes a kit to catch the oil in the blow by, it is rather simple to install. It is an extra canister with mesh to trap the oil in the vapors and it returns it to the oil pan.

 

Seems like the problems with the emissions systems is often the sensors going bad and giving false readings. The newer engines seem to be better than the pre 12 engines with this.
If you are not in a hurry, the International Diamond Certificate program bares watching with their MaxxForce engines.

 

RUN AWAY!!!! RUN AWAY!!!
If you buy that truck you WILL end up like the hundreds of Owner Ops sitting in Peterbilt shops around the country... RUN AWAY!
Here is a link to my nightmare. My 2013 MX13 has (so far) cost me well over $50,000 in parts, labor, lost revenue... I have owned the truck 5 months and it has been the WORST experience of my life. I am not alone in my distain of this engine. Read this. http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...erstanding-new-codes-in-paccar-engine.290908/

 

Here is the most important post in that thread, read this post and decide if you want to risk your future on an MX13.
"Paccar Corporate thought the same thing... If a "stop Engine" or cel comes on it will save it. Why then do I get several unrelated FMI and SPN's that come up on the dash, i write them down shut the truck off.... A few hours later they are gone... Never existed. So they can't "replicate". Thats what they keep saying "everything looks fine".
WHY THEN do I have soot dripping down my DPF housing, a cloud of blue smoke covers my truck the entire time its doing a re-gen? It won't do a passive re-gen, and I have a ding ding ding "chime" and bright red "STOP ENGINE" the entire time its doing the re-gen?
three months into this, they can't diagnose it until it happens while they are plugged into it.
I didn't just talk to one tech out in the shop, this started there, went to Rush management, Paccar management, then Rush corporate, Paccar engineers in Renton WA, Peterbilt Motors in Denton Tx....
Bottom line: The company that designed, built, sold, and service this truck have NO IDEA how to fix it. They can't diagnose what is wrong with it. This would have been considered a "lemon" and been replaced if it were new. Paccar can not survive if they have to replace every truck with after treatment issues for the next 10 years. Obviously they won't replace used trucks that have 400K on them. They have been very patient and spent countless hours and thrown tons of parts (at no charge to me) at it. But in three months the truck has been on the road two weeks. This Paccar experiment has destroyed me financially.
My hope is to educate potential truck buyers, if you own one or two trucks and can't survive having a truck spend that much time in a shop, stay away from this experiment... Buy a proven power plant."

 

The same could be said for the CAT C15 ACERT.

I have driven a few and been on both ends of the spectrum. Drove an 08 T660 that was extremely reliable,.. in the 14 months I drove it, only had 1 problem,.. it was the ARD head. Replaced the same day. In and out.

Then had an 07 386,.. pretty much the same engine. Complete lemon of a truck. Total nightmare with DPF and no regen issues. Constantly in the shop every 3 - 4 weeks. Endless cycle of sleeping in hotels while they diagnosed the problem,.. replaced parts to get it running enough to send me out the door,.. only to limp mode it to the next Pete dealer.

I now own an 05 Columbia with an 04 BXS ACERT in this one. No egr,.. no DPF,.. no emissions period. I was leery at first. I knew about the actuators, jake issues, wiring harness issues,.. lots of problems. Being 04 was the first year for the ACERT,.. I was very afraid of buying it. After driving it for 5 months trouble free, I decided to buy it. Here I am almost 3 yrs later and all things considered,.. its really been a good money maker.

Hurst

 

I'm of the opinion that you can flip a coin with any of these newer trucks and you could end up with a fantastic reliable fuel efficient truck,... or go completely the opposite and be broke inside of 6 months.

Which one will you end up with?

Hurst