What's the difference between the 12 and 13 RAM 2500HD?It's not clear to me from the RAM website what changes have been made to the 2013 2500HD. When you select "Explore the 2500HD" the RAM website takes you to the same page and description of the "Explore the 3500HD".Is the 2013 RAM 2500HD frame, suspension and brakes essentially the same as the 2012 RAM 3500HD?Are the significant changes to the 2013 2500HD the DEF Cummins and the interior redesign?

Huge difference!Brakes, rear diff, front axle disconnect, air induction, dual radiators, new high strength frame, more hp and tq, higher tow and carrying capacities and so on!

Cummins12V98 wrote:Huge difference!Brakes, rear diff, front axle disconnect, air induction, dual radiators, new high strength frame, more hp and tq, higher tow and carrying capacities and so on!Are you saying all the upgrades on the 2013 3500HD are included on the 2013 2500HD?

Cummins12V98 wrote:Huge difference!Brakes, rear diff, front axle disconnect, air induction, dual radiators, new high strength frame, more hp and tq, higher tow and carrying capacities and so on!I don't think all those carried over to the 2500.

Some of the features listed are 3500 only. The 2500 gets more torque, hp, and a big increase in towing and payload.The '13 also introduce DEF, a carry over from the cab and chassis trucks. The interrior is refreshed a bit too.The biggest upgrades for the '13 probably max towing, 17000 gcwr 25000, and the addition of DEF to the emissions.

catfishmontana wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:Huge difference!Brakes, rear diff, front axle disconnect, air induction, dual radiators, new high strength frame, more hp and tq, higher tow and carrying capacities and so on!I don't think all those carried over to the 2500.Well I believe a few items did but certainly not all of them.Main difference between the 2012 and 2013 2500 has to do with the engine components like DEF, dual air induction locations, dual radiators. They also upped the GVWR. I don't believe you can get the new 11.8 rear axle or the Aisian transmission, or the bigger frame with the 2500. I believe they only have the 3.42 ratio also where the 3500's offer the 3.73 and the 4.10 in the DRW models. There is finally a difference between a 2500 and 3500 other than the rear spring pack.

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thirtydaZe
Nomad
May 26, 2013
Some of the features listed are 3500 only. The 2500 gets more torque, hp, and a big increase in towing and payload.

The '13 also introduce DEF, a carry over from the cab and chassis trucks. The interrior is refreshed a bit too.

The biggest upgrades for the '13 probably max towing, 17000 gcwr 25000, and the addition of DEF to the emissions.
catfishmontana
Explorer
May 26, 2013
Cummins12V98 wrote:
Huge difference!

Brakes, rear diff, front axle disconnect, air induction, dual radiators, new high strength frame, more hp and tq, higher tow and carrying capacities and so on!

I don't think all those carried over to the 2500.
sidney
Explorer
May 26, 2013
Cummins12V98 wrote:
Huge difference!

Brakes, rear diff, front axle disconnect, air induction, dual radiators, new high strength frame, more hp and tq, higher tow and carrying capacities and so on!

Are you saying all the upgrades on the 2013 3500HD are included on the 2013 2500HD?
Cummins12V98
Explorer III
May 26, 2013
Huge difference!

Brakes, rear diff, front axle disconnect, air induction, dual radiators, new high strength frame, more hp and tq, higher tow and carrying capacities and so on!

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