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Trying to ascertain (because it's REALLY not clear to me) are you a bean counter or an engineer?
Ah, yes - the killer to the old perpetual motion criers.
You completely missed my point,there is no a simple setup playing just the radio alone,got it? Hope so.
Maybe I missed it too. So you can only play the radio for 9,999 hours instead of 99,999 hours?
Not the point at all,when you put the fob in,there is no separate section just for the radio alone,nothing else,no other light etc but only the radio screen and this was little surprise for me,but maybe is just me
They must have done something different with the brakes on my 2018 because for stock, they’re pretty darned impressive and as far as the leaky third brake light, you just gotta go to Home Depot or Lowe’s and get some of that really good rubberized weatherstripping to go on there and your problems with that should be solved.
Since you’re comparing a three-quarter ton pick up to a half ton F150, what exactly are you towing that towed faster behind the F150? But a lot of that could’ve been because of that very not so popular six speed transmission that those had before the new 19s that got the eight speed.
Well, it is a three-quarter ton so what can I say. I don’t know exactly when ram came out with this but back when I was shopping for a new truck and at one point when I thought I really needed a three-quarter ton just for, you know, you never know when you might need something like that someday to where if I did get one, it was gonna have the rear air ride on it so that when you’re not towing heavy, you’re not gonna have that heavy duty suspension back there to beat your teeth out.
Is it four-wheel-drive or 2WD? If it’s 2WD, I can kind of understand that and see that but if it’s four-wheel-drive, I don’t believe I’ve ever heard anybody complain about those not having enough ground clearance unless they just absolutely wanted to lift it for other reasons, just to make it higher for their liking but put taller tires on it. I think you can easily jump up to 35 on those four-wheel-drive three-quarter tons and not have to do any trimming or even lift it. You might have to put on a leveling kit but that should be about it.
Yeah, that is a downfall of these trucks that the onboard fuel mileage calculator isn’t very accurate but yeah, I know, I know what this threads all about but I myself wouldn’t have even brought that up when if you really wanna know truly what your fuel mileage is, you hand calculate it and be done with it.
Yeah, that is kind of ****** but you might want to go have your AC checked because we’ve been living down here in southern Oklahoma, the only times where I’ve ever had to go to the HVAC screen to actually put the AC on full blown max AC is only on a really super hot day.
Again, that’s that cheesy 6 speed for you.
Uh, are you sure the AC is actually on and not just blowing cold air because nothing has warmed up yet? My truck even has the active grill shutters on the outside of the radiator that’s supposed to close completely when you start it up when it’s cold to help the motor warm up faster but even in mine, there’s barely any hot air blowing after just five minutes of idling.
Again, get you a tuner.
@JerryETX
Do you have Auto Climate Control? If so, it should be attempting to reach that setting as soon as conditions permit. 43° is not that cold out. I have my garage set to 42, and while I do remote start is, as I go into the garage so it has a chance to settle down before I drive off, it's only running for maybe 20-30 seconds before I leave. I have plenty warm air coming out within a mile down the road. And it's DOWN the road - I live at the top of one of the biggest hills around here.
I know it's not going to ride like a half ton but I've ridden many times in both an F250 4x4 and a Chevy 2500 4x4, both short beds like mine and both 4x4 and both gassers and neither one rode as rough as my Ram.
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I'd sell it before I put a tuner on it. Not going that route.
I hear what you're saying but my take is if they're going to go through the effort of putting something on the truck it should work accurately.
AC blows ice cold
Yes because the AC was on the last time I drove it the day before.
No auto climate control. 43 is definitely chilly to me it's what you're used to. Tomorrow our high is supposed to be 88. Saturday night low is 35. Hard to get used to 43 when it's in the 80's many afternoons.
What are you switching to?
Well, the 3/4-ton Ram is bigger and much heavier than that little f150 being that the ford’s aluminum and the only aluminum body panels that would be on the Ram would be the hood and tailgate if 2016 was when they started that so, being that it is debatable in regards to whether or not the Ram 392 6.4L Hemi is truly underpowered, that eco boost puts out a little more than it should. Even if that ford could pull all that a little faster than even my 395-horse Ram 1500 5.7 with 3.92 gears and 8-speed trans, that’s not a downfall on other of the two Rams- that’s just ford feelin’ like they have to go too over the top with just a halfton. I’m not saying a halfton never needs to have that much power but it doesn’t need to have that much power stock for the people who just basically want a truck to do normal stuff with the truck.
Again, just because some ride smoother than others, it’s still a three-quarter ton. That’s just what it is but I’m curious, since what you pull is more than capable of being pulled with another halfton then why did you get a three-quarter ton? I’m not judging you, I’m just curious because I guess if it were me, I wouldn’t be buying a three-quarter ton unless something I was pulling was more than what a half ton could handle.
Those four-wheel-drive three-quarter tons sit pretty high as it is but generally if somebody’s taking that truck somewhere where they need even more ground clearance than that, they lift it and/or put taller tires on it and don’t even think twice.
How come? It’s an easy way to get rid of that MDS and gain a little power and probably better shift points which would probably really help that six speed and I’m pretty sure in your case you wouldn’t even have to buy a new computer to do it because I believe it was 2017 when they started locking us out of our computers. I’m still tossing around the idea of getting a certain kind of tuner for my 18 that hooks up to my PCM but doesn’t reprogram it but I sure am glad that the MDS on my truck really isn’t all that noticeable in my exhaust sound because it was really bad on my 2008 ram 1500 but I was able to use a tuner and turn it off.
I hear you and I fully agree with you and I don’t understand why they arent that accurate but you know, I really don’t even use mine anymore and if I really want to keep track of my fuel mileage I’ve got a calculator that I can figure out my mileage exactly.
Being that you’ve already stated several posts ago that you don’t have the automatic climate control, that right there is your problem. If you know it’s gonna be cold in the morning, you’re gonna have to set your HVAC system to what you want it to do when you remote start it.
So what are you leaving the temp knob set at the night before? Still not saying that 5 minutes is enough to get heat out of a 6.4, but you should set the temp at max before shutting it off.
