I'm fairly new to this forum, and am wondering how off-road worthy the RAM 1500 in my configuration is. I have a 14 Sport quad cab, 4WD with the auto 4wd, 3.92 rear gearing with anti slip rear-end. As far as wheel base goes, I know the limitations of that, but wondering what people actually do with their RAM 1500's off road.
Just sitting around bored, and anxiously waiting for the ability to get back into the outdoors.
Cheers
Surprisingly well and capable.
My old 2005 1500 quad SLT went off road quite q few times.
As a reference point I'll say that it made the run to Peacock Flats several times (you can google it, Peacock Flats on Oahu, or Kuaokala Forest Oahu). Fully loaded with camping gear, too.
The video below is all about tacos, not Rams, but it's whatever i googled real quick and you'll see the terrain as a reference point for our discussion, and my stock 05 am 1500 made it past all that in dry weather:
Of course lets be serious, it did NOT go all the side trails where genuine 4 inch lifted jeeps - or 6-inch lifted Tacos - went, but it did go on some tough side-trails more than just the main forestry road. so, middle-of-the-road (pun!) capable.
It is not a jeep, but it is more than a car.
In dry weather, it did the Peacock Flats runs with stock factory tires (in later years I did put more aggressive tires, and it did make a big difference) and most of the time i could keep it in 2WD. In wet weather....well that's not fair to blame any vehicle for not making Peacock Flats in the wet.
The ground clearance (depending on your trim and year model) is as good as a stock jeep or tacoma; obviously the wheelbase is a different argument but we all knew that when we decided to buy a pickup and not a jeep.
With aggressive tires and good driving you will pass things that a novice in a jeep with factory stock tires will get stuck in. But a souped up jeep with skilled driving you will not keep up with.
But to answer your question, it is very, very capable. For its wheelbase, if you stay within the geometry and math of that wheelbase, you will be as capable as any other consumer grade private vehicle out there.
I now have a $Fifty-freaking-K Laramie so it won't see anything like the pics and vids people have been posting - at least not for a few years and until the leather is torn and some quarterpanel dinged up first. No siree, these trucks are too expensive nowadays to take into the bush.
, but in his defense his truck i think was a Classic 19 or 20 i can't remember, so maybe FCA have learned a thing about the 44-44 and how the way they're programming it? Don't know.
