Thanks to all for your great feedback!
Being from Canada is a concern.
I will get underneath and take a close look of any rust or fluid leaks and condition of the suspension and etc.
I have asked for a service history. Since being from Canada it's not available. Just the Carfax. Hoping that since it has a battery blanket and the body and interior look in good shape, that up there in Canada it was well taken care of - hope!
We are in Maricopa, AZ. This won't go to Seattle, it will be for here in AZ.
Wish we had more time here than two weeks to look further (9 days remaining). We've personally seen other basic RAMs that were not acceptable. 3 others were on the internet and were awesome and gone in a day or two after posting!
Hopefully, this ride will be the one. Fingers crossed. If it's not, we will continue our search.
These days RAMs are all over the place. It's just finding the right one for the wife and I.
Were love the Longhorn with the brown saddle leather interior.
Thanks again everyone, I will keep you posted how things go when it arrives.
Erik
Edit I see you bought the truck but all the following still applies. I also see it’s higher mileage. Get redline oil and large filter in there asap if it’s a hemi.
Original post-
As a fellow Phoenician I honestly would steer away from rams. I’m a little sour with mine but I’ll try to stay neutral.
The hemi runs hot anyway, and you’ll see 240° oil temps pretty much always. Plus the Ram’s ac here in AZ sucks! The rear air is absolutely terrible; a sick infant could blow cooler air on you harder.
Make sure you’re ok with $100+ oil changes every 5k because for the hemi it seems only the best of the best oil prevents issues.
Those are pretty much the only negatives but the ac is really an issue imo for Phoenix. You can avoid the lifter issues by devoting to the librication strategies early on.
Read the synthetic oil thread in here as well as oil filter thread (Do not put 5w20 on the truck!!!!, use the bigger filter), AGS delete thread (if you search my lifter failure thread I have links to all these threads in my on post).
Other than that I do love the truck it was my dream truck prior to buying it. I’ve never gotten stuck with my 4x4, I do plenty of truck stuff with it and I’ve never been let down.
Also double check rear end gear ratio to make sure it matches what you want to do with the truck. 3.92 is great for towing and pickup but mileage is worse etc.
5w20 and xg10060 filter. Now I have one or more failed lifters (more common on the 2014+ trucks)
