Total cost of the repair would have been over $12k. And that has me thinking of trading it in for a Hemi.
That sounds like somewhat of an overreaction, to me. You'd be trading the unlikely possibility of another catastrophic HPFP failure for the virtual certainty of mutliple exhaust leaks from either a cracked manifold or broken header bolts. Prior to my '21 ED, I had 5.7 Hemis from '09 on. I put 265K miles on them between the two I had. I had that exhaust leak repair done 5 or 6 times on my '09, once on my '19 (at around 45K miles, IIRC), and the '19 just started to sound like it needed it again when I traded it in (at 72K miles) for my ED.
Does anybody know how warranty coverage works if the HPFP blows up like DarthDork's did, and the engine is out of the factory warranty period?
I mean, the HPFP is under a recall, so would this same $12K repair be covered the same way if the engine had 120K miles on it?
Or is Stellantis going to say "the Recall specifically says to not drive the truck until this recall repair is completed. You continued driving it, so the cost of repairs now is on you"?