On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 20:28:58 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 1/30/2014 7:52 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 18:46:28 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 1/30/2014 1:41 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:56:23 -0600, Califbill wrote:

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I had a Dodge Ram 2500 HD for a while. Agreed, it was one rough riding
truck. Hit a crack in the road and bounce your head off the headliner.
I ended up giving it to one of my nephews when he was in Florida to use
as his construction business truck. He ended up blowing the
transmission running it in the quarter mile at some dragstrip.


When it first came out, that grille was the coolest thing on the block. But, when I tapped it and
found it was plastic, I thought it was much less 'cool'. And then I went around the block in
it...not for me. That was in '95 when I bought the GMC Sierra 1500. That was a good pickup. My
nephew still uses it as his every-day truck.


When the current Ram series first came out they may have ridden hard but
they were rugged trucks. One of customer facilities the I used to visit
often was next door to a railroad receiving and distribution point for
new vehicles. We'd sometimes go out and look at some of the vehicles as
they were loaded onto truck trailers for final delivery to the dealer.

We often saw Dodge, Ford and Chevy/GM pickups. If you looked at the
undercarriage the components ... meaning wheel drums, rear end,
suspension, etc., were huge on the Dodges compared to the Fords and GM
products ... comparing the same series .... 150, 1500, 250, 2500, etc.
That's what convinced me to buy that hard riding Ram 2500 HD. It rode
hard but was a strong truck. Weakness was their transmissions.

I believe that. But hell, I had to ride in it, and my wife was with me for our test drive. There's
no way she could stand that truck. Then we drove a Sierra 1500. All the difference in the world. I
suppose if I worked in a rock quarry and needed the truck to haul rock, the Dodge would be a way to
go - until the tranny went TU. Chrysler products in general get some very poor reliability reviews.

Oh, and the Dodge diesel pickup is about as quiet as an F-18 on afterburner.