This is my first Dodge truck and my last! Brakes have been replaced on the rear TWICE! The third time they replaced the whole rear axle. Transmission slips when it shifts from 2nd to 3rd. The interior is cheap and plastic. The truck only has 15000 miles on it and it uses a 1/2 quart of oil about every 1000 miles. I have had Chevys and GMC's in the past and plan to trade this dodge for one in late 2007 to get this piece of junk off my hands.
Nothing good to say, It looks sporty, but its nothing, but junk! The 5.3 GM motor is a heck of a lot better than the overrated HEMI!
Your Chevy dealer will only allow you about $2,500 for it on trade-in. I'll give you that for it, and do you the favor of taking it off your hands. Want to give it to me?
This is a good truck. I haven't had to replace anything. I would much rather take a 5.7 HEMI down the strip than a 5.3 Chevy. No contest there.
I disagree on the 5.7 hemi against the 5.3 chevy. We have a motorsports park in Memphis Tn and thursdays you can bring your stock vehicles. More than once I have seen a regular cab chevy or gmc truck with the 5.3 beat the daylights out of a hemi.
One time I even saw a GMC with a 4.8 beat the hemi! Only thing the guy had done to the 4.8 was put in a 4:10 gear.
I have a 2005 Dodge Ram with the small V8 engine, I have also had major trouble with the brake system and too many other things to list. Chevy here I come!
And you fail to mention that the hemi ram was 4x4 or quad cab, while trustiong a tire squealing truck driver telling you that it's "all stock dude." The 4.8...alrighty then...
Must have been a bad truck. I have an 04 Quad Cab Hemi and it is nearly perfect. I have a superchips flashpaq that really woke the engine and trans package up. They are really suppressed from the factory. The GM trucks like Fords are alright products, just boring looking ho-hum trucks. To each his own. I'll keep mine... Paid for now, so who cares about resale if you're happy...
RE: 4th Dec 2007, 13:29.
Be happy with what you have now, when the day comes to trade in or sell your truck you will not be a happy man. Hang in there you will see.
Anyone who has had "perfect" Dodge ought to be happy, in the same way that someone who has won the lottery should be. Do your research, and you'll find they're the exception. Dodge pickups have mediocre engineering and build quality, but they have to give them away at the end of the year because smart people (unlike me) won't buy them otherwise. So they're cheap if you can wait for the end of the year, as they should be, but the problem is that that's backed up by what has to be the worst dealer service network in the entire world. If you're the rare soul who has one that's well built, you won't know about this, but everyone else has basically thrown their money away and taken on an all-consuming hobby that will eat up every free minute until they can manage to dump the piece of crap.
Every brand has problems, but not every brand has a dealership service system that punishes you for buying a pickup with a problem, and gives you headaches and ulcers and harass you at work and at home. Toyotas and Hondas may not be "exciting," but after having my 10-month old truck in the dealership for the last 9 weeks, picking up, and dropping it off again on Tuesday because it's still broken, I'm willing to give up some of the "excitement" of having an American car - the excitement of not knowing if it'll start, the excitement of screaming phone messages to (and from) the dealership, the excitement of finding out what the next major failure will be on my pickup that has only 4800 miles. My Mazda has had a broken piece of trim in the 2 years since I bought it. Boooorrring.
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