New 1500 owner

A deer did in my 2004 Toyota Tundra a couple of weeks ago. Dodge is a new experience for me, I've had Chevy trucks (Suburban and Avalanche) for the past few decades. Since we do use our crew cab for extended travel (our other vehicles are tiny, my Volt and my wife's A4 cabriolet), we were enticed by the RAM having the best ride report of a truck. The secondary goal was to get a bed cover that wasn't as much of a PITA to put on and off like the hard cover on my Toyota. Was really looking for something like the Avalanche had.

Anyhow, after must casting about and some encouragement from my wife, I picked up a 2020 Ram 1500 Limited last week. We've already taken it on a 700 mile trip. Still waiting for the trifold bed cover to arrive.

Congrats!

Welcome to RamForum and congrats on the new truck.

Welcome and congrats on your new RAM ! My 2015 is my first RAM and still loving it !, I had a F150 Lariat before my RAM and also loved that truck

Welcome to the forum.

Red

Welcome

Welcome.....had several trucks over the years.....Chevy....Dodge....Mazda....my new Ram 1500 is the best riding truck of all of them....love it. Also very pleased with the hemi mpg.....great truck....hope it lasts a long time. Congrats on your truck.

Congrats and welcome. I have a little Tacoma PreRunner crew cab that I rarely use, but love it so much I don't want to part with it. I bet your new RAM, even with more HP, room and towing capacity gets better MPG's, is a better ride and is safer than the Tundra was. Lots of good info here so grab a beer and start surfing. You'll find all kinds of ways to burn your paychecks on mods.

Welcome

welcome!!

Welcome!

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Well, I added a few aftermarket features. First off, the model we got didn't have a CD Player (which we occasionally use for audio books. so I got a USB one). I also just finished installing the bed extender and the utility rails. Still waiting for the tonneau cover to arrive.

Ugh. I called the dealership to find out where my cover was and they claim it arrived the day before. Fine, I'll come get it. Do you want us to install it? Sure. Service guy gets on the phone. Wants me to leave the truck there for several hours and pay $300. Tell them forget it. Come get the cover. Takes them twenty minutes to verify that I had indeed paid for it when I bought the truck. Again, they tell me it will be involved to install. They even push it along on the floor like it weights a lot.

I pick the thing up. Though the box is awkward, it's not more than 30 pounds. I easily throw it in the bed without lowering the tailgate. I get to wondering so I pull into a shopping center down the road and break open the box and pull out the instructions. Jeez, there's nothing to assemble. Doesn't even take any tools (unlike he assinine bed extender which requires a drill, two different drillbits, an pop rivet gun, a Torx driver). The thing mounts to the box rails with big hand knobs you turn by hand. Took me longer to stomp the empty box into submission so I could fit it in the bed under the newly installed cover and get the tailgate up, than it took me to install it. I guess who I'm not going to trust with any maintenance on this truck.

The new downside I've learned is that while I can shutoff the "rear parking assist" when the tailgate is open (something I could not do with my old Tundra), placing the backup camera in the handle of the tailgate kind of makes it useless to use if you've got the tailgate down. Lovely view of the pavement under the tailgate.