Just categorizing ram forum members bad experiences so as to alert other ram forum members of potential risk and possible fixes, thought that was crystal clear as I put the number having the result. Perhaps you haven't seen the threads were 100 ram forum members have their experiences, I guess your retort would be isn't that like 100 sam elliot's proclaiming Guts! Glory! Ram!?
Actually, I'm alluding to the hacking of people's minds. I had a McDonald's Advertisement Exec. whose 911T I worked on back in the '80's. We frequently debated over consumer trends, what were and still remain triggers for consumer decision making that are both subliminal and conscious. Many purchases from a meal to a truck are predicated on emotion... influenced by portraying a moment in time to evoke memories and emotions to make a decision which has far reaching consequences.
It does a certain amount of good to find "like minded people" especially when seeking sympathetic views and insightful remedies that "worked for them". I'm neither denying nor confirming the legitimacy of, say, a few dozen people who swear by this oil or that filter which, allopathically stopped their hemi tick. But, even with your oil analyzing efforts, the question remains... what was/is the root cause of the failure? Is the problem limited to one element? That idea is far outside of scientific an physics reality where different levels of research must be done, and in control groups to insure total accuracy and eliminate variables so as to insure accurate results.... Then a mega study must be performed, again, in controlled environs.
The concept doesn't fit Corporate models who must codify shareholders. If our bretheren on these forums constitute even .05% of the overall market, then we are considered irrelevant. It's macro-economics, plain and simple. Big corporate will schmooze the consumers with noble sounding claims of priority to customer satisfaction and statements of world class leading product development, and, most prominently, They love to wag their prideful hubris in our faces with the awards they've garnered in the media/ marketing platforms. I never gave a ******'s damn about some model of vehicle which I bought to fill my needs as having been number one on some platform or being voted a consumer best. There is too much "good old boy" climate for these awards to mean much. Whether FoMoCo or Mopar or anyone touts their truck as being built tough, or being the best selling truck in the past 48 years, etc. I'm interested in what the vehicle does for MY needs, not to be one of the club because of some fantasy advertisement point.
You might be aware of the 5.4L 3-valve Ford truck engines that eat cam phasers and timing components. This affected millions of Expeditions and trucks from 2005 thru 2014, the last year of this motor production. No efforts were ever tendered to recall them. The repair is 4500 dollars average. A new engine job is 7-8 grand. And the customer has to bear the cost. And no special oil or filter mitigated the inevitability of the failure. It's not if, it's when the failure will occur. This, on top of a proclivity to breaking spark plugs upon attempted removal? Yeah.
Bottom line? We in these forums do need each other, because, frankly, Corporate isn't going to rise up and really do the right thing by we working peons out here in the big bad world. And IF there is a way to delay that inevitable outlay of huge repairs, or, worse, buying a replacement vehicle, then great.
To really see that nothing has ever changed, watch some of the ads for all the different cars and trucks made by all car makers from back in the 30's 40's, 50's, and 60's.... Read between the lines and you'll see that the only thing that HAS changed in their hyperbole!!! Peace!
