Quote:Just curious, are they all having the same problems or does it vary? What sort of problems are you having?
Yeah....about that.....we f'n hate them! The Department's looking to get rid of every single one of them. They spend 3x as long in the shop as they do in the field. On more than 1 occasion all 5 KME's assigned to D4 (E3, E7, E22, E33 & L17) were all OOS at the same time for an extended period. E41 just got theirs back at the end of last month after being gone for 3 months. We currently have 1 TL, 3 RM, 1 Rescue & 14 Pumps in frontline service with 1 Pump (E10) & 1 Rescue (R1) awaiting delivery & if we could figure out how to get rid of every single one of them without taking a bath, we would. We've already gone back to E-One for our aerials (4 Metros on order), hopefully they'll get the rest of the future orders!
It kind of seems like KME is either hit or a miss with each customer. One department seems to love their units and keeps buying them and the next hates theirs.
My department would be in the hate category. We're small and only have a pair of engines from them, but they're about 18 years old now and both have been junk. Of course part of that is a byproduct of not having a good PM program or taking care of some issues as quickly as they should've been. Most of the problems we've encountered with one, the other had too.
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