Driving a pickup in Inverness can mean crawling along Main Street, where US-41 and SR-44 share the road between Talmage Avenue and Highland Boulevard, or running 15 miles of SR-44 out to I-75 with a trailer behind. RDI Power repairs diesel pickups, chassis cabs and vans at our Brooksville shop, about 40 minutes from central Inverness, and our mobile technicians cover the trucks that should not be moved.
Inverness pickups between Main Street and the SR-44 run to I-75
Each kind of driving has a characteristic failure. In town, the emissions system suffers: particulate filters that never finish a regeneration, EGR valves coated in soot, and DEF systems that throw codes after a summer of short trips. On the highway, the fuel system and turbo carry the load, and towing adds heat to the cooling system and transmission.
A few symptoms are worth a call the day they appear:
- Regens every few days or a fan that keeps running after you shut the truck off
- A DEF countdown message on the dash, which ends in a speed-limited derate if ignored
- Long cranking on cool winter mornings, pointing to glow plugs, a grid heater or batteries
- Coolant disappearing without a visible leak
- Black smoke under load or a loss of power on the highway
- A rough idle or a misfire after fueling, which can mean water or contamination in the tank and is worth catching before the injectors pay for it
Power Stroke, Duramax and Cummins habits Inverness owners should know
Owners usually describe the symptom; the engine family tells us where to start.
The 6.0 Power Stroke is notorious for clogged oil coolers that starve and crack the EGR cooler, plus head gasket failures. The 6.4 adds fuel dilution of the oil and radiator problems to the list. The 6.7 is sturdier but still sees sensor faults, leaks and aftertreatment complaints. Every one of them uses glow plugs, newest included.
On the Duramax, older engines are known for injector wear, and newer ones for DEF and filter faults. Our service advisor spent 35 years wrenching at a Chevrolet dealership, and that history helps when a GM truck throws a confusing set of codes.
The 6.7 Cummins in Ram trucks can suffer from a sticking variable geometry turbo and all the usual aftertreatment issues; it uses an intake grid heater rather than glow plugs. The Nissan Titan XD runs a 5.0 Cummins V8, and diesel Sprinter vans get the same codes-first approach.
When shifting has changed along with the engine complaint, read our Inverness transmission repair page, which explains how we separate the 2.
Getting an Inverness pickup to Brooksville, or a technician to it
A truck that drives normally with a steady check engine light can make the trip: west on Main Street to Pleasant Grove Road, south to Snow Memorial Highway, then into Brooksville; or straight down US-41. A truck that is overheating, losing oil pressure, smoking heavily or stuck in a derate should not. Call first, and we will choose between a wrecker and a mobile technician, who can reach trucks at Inverness yards, job sites and roadsides.
At the shop, the diagnosis comes before the parts: codes and live data, then hands-on tests, then a digital inspection with photos and notes for you to review. That labor is backed by our 36-month, 36,000-mile warranty.
For the broader pickup picture, our light duty diesel repair page goes make by make. Owners on the SR-44 side of town, toward Citrus Hills, can read our Inverness Highlands North truck repair page. Call (352) 433-3800 and tell us how the truck is behaving and where it is parked in Inverness.