I am around trucks all day, But most contractors do not have new trucks or the outside environment is not quiet enough for me to even notice. Today, One contractor pulled up in a 2013, F-350 diesel. I only noticed the difference because I was not yelling across the passenger side to give him direction. I could not believe how quiet it was. Now, I am sure the other (2) of the big 3 are also quiet, but, I was impressed. Usually, I am yelling so loud or I just ask the guys to shut the engine off as it is just too darn loud to talk business.

It's good to hear that the quiet diesel technology in the recent BMW, Mercedes, and even VW car lines is making its way into pickup trucks. I sat in an idling BMW X5 diesel a couple years back, and you couldn't tell it was even running, let alone that it was the diesel version. Even with the driver's door open, one foot on the pavement.

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modern family wrote:I am around trucks all day, But most contractors do not have new trucks or the outside environment is not quiet enough for me to even notice. Today, One contractor pulled up in a 2013, F-350 diesel. I only noticed the difference because I was not yelling across the passenger side to give him direction. I could not believe how quiet it was. Now, I am sure the other (2) of the big 3 are also quiet, but, I was impressed. Usually, I am yelling so loud or I just ask the guys to shut the engine off as it is just too darn loud to talk business.Wow where have you been, most of the Big Three diesels have been very quite since 2011. I test drove a 2011 RAM Cummins and was really impressed with how quite it was.Drove a 2006 Mazda 3 Turbo Diesel in Ireland for four weeks while visiting my daughter, and it was very quiet and ran great!

It has always amazed me how many buy a truck that is relatively quiet and spend a lot of money making it obnoxiously loud. :R

You should hear (or try to) the new CAT off-highway equipment diesels. Those things make the new pickups seem load! They sound like a bedroom fan. Our golf carts make way more noise.

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Hannibal
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Jun 22, 2013
pronstar wrote:
...my wife talks in her sleep:p

There's your proof she's been foolin' around with that movie star! One morning about 0530 my wife said "quit Sammy that tickles". I looked all over the house for Sam Elliot. I know he was here somewhere! That or she's hoping I'll buy another Ram.:E
bovellois
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Jun 22, 2013
skipnchar wrote:
It has always amazed me how many buy a truck that is relatively quiet and spend a lot of money making it obnoxiously loud. :R

Yes, and the same goes for cars (Ford Mustang) and motorcycles.
pronstar
Explorer
Jun 21, 2013
...my wife talks in her sleep:p
The_Mad_Norsky
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Jun 21, 2013
Stefonius wrote:
Hannibal wrote:
camping man wrote:
If i couldn't hear a diesel knocking, I'd bring it back. Guess it's the old school in me. My wife likes quiet , but she's a women,and she's supposed too.
You must have the only one. The only time my woman is quiet, well no, she's not even quiet when she's asleep!:Z
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Stefonius
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Jun 21, 2013
Hannibal wrote:
camping man wrote:
If i couldn't hear a diesel knocking, I'd bring it back. Guess it's the old school in me. My wife likes quiet , but she's a women,and she's supposed too.
You must have the only one. The only time my woman is quiet, well no, she's not even quiet when she's asleep!:Z
X2!
Hannibal
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Jun 21, 2013
camping man wrote:
If i couldn't hear a diesel knocking, I'd bring it back. Guess it's the old school in me. My wife likes quiet , but she's a women,and she's supposed too.

You must have the only one. The only time my woman is quiet, well no, she's not even quiet when she's asleep!:Z
pronstar
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Jun 21, 2013
Hammerhead wrote:
Blind people depend on their hearing to navigate through the world. I saw a new story a while back about a group trying to re-train their seeing eye dogs to watch out for quiet electric vehicles.

Likely retraining a dog to equate the sound he hears, to a vehicle.
I guarantee you that an EV, while quiet to a human, is anything but quiet to a dog.

Here's something to ponder as it relates to a dog's senses:
If we walk through the woods, a dog can track us - by scent alone - hours later.

But if a dog is sitting right next to us, our human "stink" must be darn near unbearable :)
camping_man
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Jun 21, 2013
If i couldn't hear a diesel knocking, I'd bring it back. Guess it's the old school in me. My wife likes quiet , but she's a women,and she's supposed too.
DUO_CORE
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Jun 19, 2013
ChooChooMan74 wrote:
Bill from Powerstroke Help likes it so far...

2011 F250 6 7L FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Nice trucks.

Do the 2013's still have the plastic oil pans?
NWKomfort350
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Jun 19, 2013
Lol hahahahaha yes you are exactly right! I turn off in any sort of drive through... so, I prefer the sound of 7.3 in motion, not when ordering fast food, or at a coffee stand , or the bank drive through. Its never the bank teller its the folks in cars around you that glare until I silence the 7.3 lol I do wish the turbo sounded more like a 6.0 :)

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