Dually life? What about Ford 6.2L
As my search for a replacement for my totaled F350 I see a number of RAM diesel 3500 duallys (2017) showing up at a very good price. One in particular a Laredo at 40K with all sorts of options. I've ...
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Are you looking for new? You mentioned 2017 diesels but on the gas did not say.
If you are not joined at the hip to the blue oval, and would prefer used, look for a Ram 2500 or 3500 with the 6.4 2018 or newer.
There are almost NO new trucks on the lots. The chipped shortage has dried up supply. I did see a new F450 for $115K today tho. It was an advert so maybe that was something you had to order.
First choice is a diesel SRW Ford or RAM HD truck, crewcab a must but looking at trucks the last few days there are almost no single cab trucks around. Years 2016 or newer but realistically that means a 16 to 18. 16 is when a lot of changes were made in Fords. 4WD a big plus.
If not that then a gasser HD truck of the same era.
Thinking about our driving style we spend a lot of time on back roads and boondocking and the DRW lack of traction is probably a killer. Thanks to all those folks who helped firm up my thinking on this.
The upper end set point is $50K out the door. (already had a bad GM truck sales experience on this issue which did not improve my opinion of GM) We do not want $600+ truck payments again and we spoke to our CU today and that level seemed to be doable. We are selling my wife's Corolla which is mainly sitting in the yard for months at a time now. That will cut that payment out.
