Berkenkotter Motors

There cars/​trucks are way over priced and all junk they mostly have 6.0 power strokes and everyone knows those are the worst trucks. There sales staff is unhelpful and does not know anything about the vehicles they are selling it’s a waste of time to go there

I went into Berkenkotter looking for a reliable truck that I could use for work and to take the family up in the mountains. I purchased a 9 y/​o 2004 Ford F250 King Ranch with a 6.0L engine. It had a few problems but they assured me that the problems were normal for a truck of that mileage and age. Took it over and had a mechanic look at it and all seemed fine.
Until I found a good diesel repair shop and spent nearly $ 10,000 on it I had nothing but problems with the truck. The engine started overheating three months after I bought it and so the oil cooler had to be replaced. When the mechanic got everything off he noticed that the oil cooler had been replaced before and a screen had been removed from the inflow side of the oil pump. When he put everything back together with the new cooler he put the proper screen in.
On the way home the truck overheated again. It went back in the shop and the mechanic found that an oil filter had come apart at some point in the truck’s history and all the filter element was scattered throughout the engine (a big deal in a 6.0L). This was stopping up the small channels in the oil cooler and causing the flow to stop due to the newly-​replaced screen. It also interfered with the fuel injectors. It took two weeks and a nearly complete strip-​down of the engine to remove all of the filter element (the alternative would have been to sell it and do what Berkenkotter did and I’m too moral of a person to do that).
This problem was undeniably one Berkenkotter knew about. The work they had to do on it to make it comply with the emissions test (after it failed once) would have revealed the problem to them (according to Douglas County Diesel – a great business), so there is no escaping the fact that they knew. They knew that this $ 6500 problem was present and that it would cause serious issues with the truck. They also knew I purchased the truck to take my wife and twin 2 y/​o daughters into the mountains. They placed my family in danger of being stranded in the mountains. Multiple attempts to contact them resulted in ZERO response.
Don’t do business with these folks. Their reputation is not worth driving.

high prices and biased descriminating service