New truck, I'm digging it.

[rparker762]

Brought this home a couple days ago and am in love with it.

2013 Express, 2wd, 120,771 miles. This thing has been well taken care of. First plans are to get an alarm then have the windows tinted a little darker. Then standard stuff like debadge the doors, tailgate assist, ect ect. Too many plans to list. I do also plan on raising it up a little.

I do have two questions. Did not all 4th gen rams come with the active grille shutters? This one does not have them, and two, the carfax show 4 times the body control module was reprogrammed or replaced, what could that have been to keep happening?

 

[Aussie-John]

Nice one mate! Looks the goods!

 

[quietpeen]

Welcome and to answer your question, no not all 4th gen rams came with the active grill shutters.

 

[Pull Ya]

Nice truck---now the real fun begins LOL
Jay

 

[MADDOG]

Welcome to RamForum. I'd run the VIN through a dealer to get the exact flash updates that were done to the BCM.

 

[GsRAM]

Looks great! Congrats!

 

[circuitguy]

Welcome to the forum! Truck looks great.. Now give me your grill and front bumper.

 

[RammerHarder]

Brought this home a couple days ago and am in love with it.

2013 Express, 2wd, 120,771 miles. This thing has been well taken care of. First plans are to get an alarm then have the windows tinted a little darker. Then standard stuff like debadge the doors, tailgate assist, ect ect. Too many plans to list. I do also plan on raising it up a little.

I do have two questions. Did not all 4th gen rams come with the active grille shutters? This one does not have them, and two, the carfax show 4 times the body control module was reprogrammed or replaced, what could that have been to keep happening?

Wow, you wouldn`t even know that it has that many miles! Very clean & Very Nice! Congrats! I agree, i always debadge the doors, but i always surely leave the HEMI plaques on the fenders. I would leave the chrome RAM heads in the grill & tailgate. Maybe do some chrome accents... mirror covers, door handle covers, tailgate handle, chrome wheels, step tubes. Do you have a sprayed in bedliner...??? Or is it the plastis bedliner... if its plastic, get the hell out of your bed... it will ruin the paint in the bed and possibly cause the metal to start to rust. I highly suggest bed coating it. Bed coating will protect the bed & metal, and also deaden some road noise.

As another poster pointed out, not all rams have active grill shutters. Be glad you dont have them! My old 2014 had to go back to dealer several times for shutter problems causing check engine light codes stored in the PCM. I finally got tired of them just resetting the CEL/PCM and traced the problem down to corroded wires in the harness where it was running along the front frame support. Once i fixed the wiring (fixed it myself, because dealerships are incompetent fuggs) CEL never came back on again after the wiring was repaired.

Now, as to active grill shutters... bunch of over engineered ******** that drives up the cost of a truck. You take 2 of these ram trucks, identical in build, one with active grill shutters, the other one without, both get exactly the same MPG! So for RAM to claim its better MPG than a truck without them, is simply pure ********. Sometimes less is more... and in THIS case, less IS more. Fancy pancy dosent mean you have any less of a truck. The less techy gadgets, the more enjoyable the truck... less crap to fix when it breaks.

 

[rparker762]

Thanks for the replies. It does have a plastic bed liner which will eventually come out. I plan on debadging the doors but think I'm gonna leave the mirrors like they are. I don't care for a lot of chrome. I was actually considering body color mirrors and handles. But that's neither here nor there right now. And as far as being clean:






I used to be a detail manager for a dealership so I know when a vehicle was treated well or rode hard and this thing has been treated very well.

 

[mboymopar]

Sharp looking Ram, now the fun with mods.

 

[Darth]

Welcome! Nice truck, now time for modifications to make it truly your own

 

[TXCOMT]

Welcome and to answer your question, no not all 4th gen rams came with the active grill shutters.

Rebels, for example, did not...yea for me!

Oh, and welcome to the club!

TXCOMT