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Talk me out of Ram 1500 Laramie 4x4
Posted on 7/11/25 at 2:13 pm
Posted on 7/11/25 at 2:13 pm
with the 3.0LL I6 hurricane twin turbo engine
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Posted on 7/11/25 at 2:14 pm to AboveGroundPool
Read this thread.
LINK
LINK
Posted on 7/11/25 at 2:37 pm to AboveGroundPool
Look at the price of it and compare that to the price of having whatever you currently drive fully fixed up.
Posted on 7/11/25 at 2:42 pm to Chad504boy
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Read this thread.
Thanks.
Posted on 7/11/25 at 3:08 pm to AboveGroundPool
Don't
Posted on 7/11/25 at 3:13 pm to udtiger
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Don't
Care to elaborate?
Posted on 7/11/25 at 3:32 pm to AboveGroundPool
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quote:
Don't
Care to elaborate?
You asked me to talk you out of it.
If you want it and can afford it, get it.
Posted on 7/11/25 at 5:45 pm to AboveGroundPool
If you gonna drive it for many years, get prepared to replace turbos....and they aint cheap.....prolly around 125,000 miles.
This post was edited on 7/11/25 at 6:12 pm
Posted on 7/11/25 at 8:03 pm to AboveGroundPool
5.7L will be out shortly, personally, I’d wait…
Posted on 7/12/25 at 6:42 am to AboveGroundPool
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with the 3.0LL I6 hurricane twin turbo engine
1. Reliability is shite
2. Parts of the engine, like a thermostat, breaks during the powertrain warranty but Stellantis says it’s an “engine accessory” not part of the powertrain
3. Got to drop the tranny to replace said thermostat that breaks on every engine around 40k miles ($2k job)
4. They’re bringing back the Hemi.
Posted on 7/12/25 at 9:06 am to AboveGroundPool
Electrical issues because of parasitic battery drains that Ram cannot figure out. Google it.
This post was edited on 7/12/25 at 10:00 am
Posted on 7/12/25 at 9:22 am to Harald Ekernson
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2. Parts of the engine, like a thermostat, breaks during the powertrain warranty but Stellantis says it’s an “engine accessory” not part of the powertrain
3. Got to drop the tranny to replace said thermostat that breaks on every engine around 40k miles ($2k job)
Well, that's a big "frick You" to the consumers to place a thermostat is such a location. Every vehicle I've worked on has them on the front, or side of the engine with the front location being the easiest to replace.
Having to drop the transmission to replace a thermostat is ridiculous.
Posted on 7/12/25 at 9:28 am to AboveGroundPool
Well, it's a Dodge.
Posted on 7/12/25 at 9:38 am to AboveGroundPool
Ram is shite but it would be cool to get a puppy.
Posted on 7/12/25 at 10:28 am to RichJ
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5.7L will be out shortly
This is what I want. Unfortunately I can’t get back into another 5.7 Tundra unless I pay absurd used prices.
This post was edited on 7/12/25 at 2:48 pm
Posted on 7/12/25 at 12:57 pm to AboveGroundPool
Unfortunately most 1500's out these days have a big fault.
Ram has the aforementioned issues plus the usual Chrysler crap, transmissions, etc...
Ford and Chevy both have that dumpster fire of a 9spd auto trans.
Chevy has all the mess with the 6.2 V8, have a couple family members dealing with this. It won't be fixed for years.
Toyota has their V6 problems that are well known and large in scale.
A lot of this is driven by fuel economy mandates and trying to push technology (electronics and castings) past what they can really do. On paper it gives a very eficient engine. In real life it creates massive recalls. I'd like to see the carbon footprint of massive recalls - all the shipping and packaging material to replace hundreds of thousands of engines and trannies in every major 1500 level truck out there.
Ram has the aforementioned issues plus the usual Chrysler crap, transmissions, etc...
Ford and Chevy both have that dumpster fire of a 9spd auto trans.
Chevy has all the mess with the 6.2 V8, have a couple family members dealing with this. It won't be fixed for years.
Toyota has their V6 problems that are well known and large in scale.
A lot of this is driven by fuel economy mandates and trying to push technology (electronics and castings) past what they can really do. On paper it gives a very eficient engine. In real life it creates massive recalls. I'd like to see the carbon footprint of massive recalls - all the shipping and packaging material to replace hundreds of thousands of engines and trannies in every major 1500 level truck out there.
Posted on 7/12/25 at 2:34 pm to AboveGroundPool
Maybe check out vaughn value dot com…
Posted on 7/12/25 at 2:44 pm to AboveGroundPool
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with the 3.0LL I6 hurricane twin turbo engine
I have one and love it. Smoothest truck ride that I've ever had.
Posted on 7/12/25 at 2:53 pm to gumbo2176
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Well, that's a big "frick You" to the consumers to place a thermostat is such a location. Every vehicle I've worked on has them on the front, or side of the engine with the front location being the easiest to replace.
Having to drop the transmission to replace a thermostat is ridiculous.
That's not just a dodge thing. My wife's uncle has a 2017 f250 lariat. He lives about two hours outside of dallas and came up here to go to a doctor appointment and his truck wouldn't crank. Called me to pick him up, the problem ended up being a wiring harness that essentially the fuel pump is at absolute maximum capacity to operate electrically with the gage wire they put in of everything's fine. He had it parked for like 2 months while dealing with some health stuff and the fuel had gelled up and the pump was calling for more power and fried the wire. Ford is the only manufacturer of the harness and it cost like 6 grand to replace it. He had a guy that he knows bypass that one wire and link it direct and solved the problem. That was a big frick you from Ford. It wouldn't cost 5$ to increase the gage of that wire for 8' on, at that time $60k truck
Posted on 7/12/25 at 3:32 pm to Themicah86
Both of buddies that own a dodge swear they’ll never own another one.
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