I've been down that road too many times to list them out with vehicles from Ford(several), Chevy(including a successful Lemon Law), Volvo, and Toyota. Is this annoying? Yup. Does it rise to dump it level? Nah. Too many folks have accumulated a whole lot of miles without catastrophic failure to be a big worry. Actually, the only cam failure I ever had was in a well maintained 454 Chevy in a rollback, so, while others may feel Chevys are bulletproof, my experience with all three I have owned ras ranged from poor to "holy ****!". I am sorta hoping for a better transmission to come along, and that might goad me into trading up.
Fair enough. Looking back at the 30+ vehicles I've owned, I guess I tend to keep vehicles I buy 'pre-owned' longer than those I buy new. Maybe I expect too much from new vehicles. I don't mind working on vehicles with say ~75k+ miles on them at all because I feel like they've earned it in some weird way. Or something like that. If a relatively new vehicle shows signs of what I consider impending premature failure, I lose confidence in it and it ****** me off. I feel like it's a sign of what's to come. That's why I'd get rid of them. I did just that with one Dodge and two Ferds in the 90's. They hadn't earned their keep yet and had issues.
Same with accidents. I've known people who've gotten in fairly serious accidents in their less-than-a-month-old vehicles and had them fixed. I couldn't keep that car. Especially not a $50k+ truck. No thanks, there are good ones out there somewhere and I'll keep going through them until I find one.
This Ram has been a great truck so far. Two years/36k and hasn't seen a dealer yet. Two recalls are due, but I can't bring myself to take it in because I 'just know' the dealer is going to screw something up. I have zero trust in any dealer. Maybe I'd get one of their best techs, maybe I'd get the apprentice who has never done that repair before and his ol' lady left him the night before. With my luck, it would almost certainly be the latter.
I guess I look at it like if the vehicle can make it through the factory warranty without an issue, I don't have a problem keeping and fixing it myself. I honestly wish I could just pay less up front and not have a warranty at all. Or maybe 'a la carte' warranty options, similar to how you 'buy' insurance. Or cable. Or internet. Or cell phone service. Or... a million other things. Not a mainstream way to think about it by any means, I know. It would be interesting to see what numbers they put on those warranty options vs vehicle price for sure.