Getting a new truck, compare RAM EcoDiesel vs F150 Platnum??

5 year/100,000 mile
does the gasser get that warranty ??????

 

I was looking at that rear end going man those are low gears too. But heck all my truck experience and stuff is off 20+ year old 4WD stuff. Who knows with the massive amounts of gears in trannys these days there probably totally different than in trucks I'm thinking about them in.

Was thinking that's great mileage for a truck with 3.90 gears.

 

Sounds like you got in just in time didn't I hear concrete saying that they dropped it to like 3 year 70k miles or something?

 

So the truck with lower gears (numerically higher) gets better gas mileage?? Must be some tranny tricks there?

Edit : I said that wrong, it's correct now.

 

Did you go to Point Fest? I was there too, if I would have known, I would have checked out the truck!!!!

 

Forget meeting Dex and shooting the $hit with him...check out the truck!

 

Yeah, that doesn't sound right...normally the numerically higher (4.10:1) gears are load haulers and the numerically lower (3.55:1) gears are the mileage makers
There are some rare exceptions where a certain higher gear puts the engine in the fat part of its torque curve more often...but with the flat and wide torque curve this ECO diesel supposedly has, I would not expect that to be the case here.

 

Thanks to this thread I have already checked out a couple and even made Mrs. Coach drive it. She actually liked liked it!!!! Come to find out, there is an option to have a bench seat in front so that I can fit my family of four and two extra friends. I think it is between a Jeep Wrangler unlimited and the Ecodiesel for me. However, I have the 98 Dodge 2500 Cummins for getting wood

 

You can get a brand new $50,000 truck for $36,000?

As for the added cost of a diesel. $3000? What size (Liter) is this engine? Is it the same as a bigger work diesel? Like a Cummins, what are the new ones? 6.7L? I know the added cost of those are not $3,000.

Can you get a new, $50,000 Chevy or GMC with a Duramax and Allison for $36,000?

 

Heck no this is a baby fiat 4 cyl diesel.

 

Ahhhh. I looked it up. I don't know how I forgot. C.R.S. It's a 3.0 L V-6 diesel engine. That is why it is $3000 upgrade. My bad.

 

Oops I too was wrong I was mixing it up with the diesel GM put in the Colorado.

It's still a Fiat though. Just not a 4 cyl

 

Here is a little work horse for ya!

Ford: F-350 Crew Cab Lariat 4x4

Purdy!

 

You won't see smoke with a catalytic converter til it gets real bad.

 

With over 300,000 miles and 26 years old I am suprised that or if this thing still works!

 

If they can't make enough of them now, will parts be available in the future?

 

Does it have a locking or limited slip diff?