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blofgren wrote:
FishOnOne wrote:
jtallon wrote:
FishOnOne wrote:
My parents finally traded their '05 Duramax for a new '16 Duramax yesterday. They wanted a two wheel drive truck and after my dad saw the pictures of the hood scoop he didn't like so they went truck shopping at the local dealer. They test drove a Ram Cummins and the Chevy Duramax and decided on the Chevrolet because of more responsive power, transmission shift quality and just a better ride.
Funny how people's priorities are different.
765ft/lbs of torque in the '16 was sufficient for them, I suppose? Given they're essentially the same truck, I'd have waited a bit, and taken the additional power of the '17, and learned to accept the hood scoop. But everyone sees things differently, I guess.
Did they look at the '17 F350?
Best of luck to them. They should be very happy with the Chevy!
Coming from a 05 they should notice a nice improvement in towing performance but it'll be interesting what the fuel economy will be. Plus he always said my Ford towed better than his Chevy so he's probably thinking this new Chevy should be on par with my Ford.
They only looked at the Ram and Chevy. The dealer they purchased the truck was a dealer my mom worked at since the early sixty's. She's been retired for ~15 years now and the dealer still gave them employee discount.
For me I would have wanted the increase in power like yourself.
They didn't look at the Ford? I'm absolutely stunned given the trouble free service you've had from yours. You need to mix up stronger batches of blue Koolaid at the family functions. ;)
And before anyone gets their undies in a knot, I'm kidding! :B. I wish them the very best with their new truck.
LOL.... There truck was 11 years old and the only wrench it saw was a new set of shocks and a oil drain plug seal, but it only had ~ 55k miles.FishOnOne wrote:
jtallon wrote:
FishOnOne wrote:
My parents finally traded their '05 Duramax for a new '16 Duramax yesterday. They wanted a two wheel drive truck and after my dad saw the pictures of the hood scoop he didn't like so they went truck shopping at the local dealer. They test drove a Ram Cummins and the Chevy Duramax and decided on the Chevrolet because of more responsive power, transmission shift quality and just a better ride.
Funny how people's priorities are different.
765ft/lbs of torque in the '16 was sufficient for them, I suppose? Given they're essentially the same truck, I'd have waited a bit, and taken the additional power of the '17, and learned to accept the hood scoop. But everyone sees things differently, I guess.
Did they look at the '17 F350?
Best of luck to them. They should be very happy with the Chevy!
Coming from a 05 they should notice a nice improvement in towing performance but it'll be interesting what the fuel economy will be. Plus he always said my Ford towed better than his Chevy so he's probably thinking this new Chevy should be on par with my Ford.
They only looked at the Ram and Chevy. The dealer they purchased the truck was a dealer my mom worked at since the early sixty's. She's been retired for ~15 years now and the dealer still gave them employee discount.
For me I would have wanted the increase in power like yourself.
They didn't look at the Ford? I'm absolutely stunned given the trouble free service you've had from yours. You need to mix up stronger batches of blue Koolaid at the family functions. ;)
And before anyone gets their undies in a knot, I'm kidding! :B. I wish them the very best with their new truck.- Never worried about how fast I was up a freeway grade. Always got to the top of them.....
It was them local 20+% grades the effed me over. First with an 89 R3500, one of the one ton duallys with 4.10s BB auto...... an 81 C2500 with a 292 I6 and muncie 4 sp went up the 20% grade at 12K lbs total. R3500 sat at the bottom of the hill and blew up a TH400. First of 3 in 100K miles.....
Even my 96 6.5td could out pull my 05 Dmax dually on a steep grade by 5+%. Dmax stalled out at 20K in the low 20+ range, 6.5 did 30% at 20K. manual behind the 6.5 along with 4.10s, auto and 3.73s behind the Dmax.
Double the HP and Torque in both applications did not over power low gears in axel along with double the low gear in the trans. Even my IDI 7.3 in my Navistar can out do all the above due to a 10.08 first gear, 4.33's in the pumpkin! 30K up a 30% grade!
But, The dmax and 454 were first up the freeway grades! yep, but never made it to the job site or campground, because they stalled out before getting their! Does not do much good if you can not make the last 1.4 mile to where you are going is too steep! MY 02 on the HP torque wars.....How about some better geared rigs in both the trans and RE's!
Marty jtallon wrote:
FishOnOne wrote:
My parents finally traded their '05 Duramax for a new '16 Duramax yesterday. They wanted a two wheel drive truck and after my dad saw the pictures of the hood scoop he didn't like so they went truck shopping at the local dealer. They test drove a Ram Cummins and the Chevy Duramax and decided on the Chevrolet because of more responsive power, transmission shift quality and just a better ride.
Funny how people's priorities are different.
765ft/lbs of torque in the '16 was sufficient for them, I suppose? Given they're essentially the same truck, I'd have waited a bit, and taken the additional power of the '17, and learned to accept the hood scoop. But everyone sees things differently, I guess.
Did they look at the '17 F350?
Best of luck to them. They should be very happy with the Chevy!
Coming from a 05 they should notice a nice improvement in towing performance but it'll be interesting what the fuel economy will be. Plus he always said my Ford towed better than his Chevy so he's probably thinking this new Chevy should be on par with my Ford.
They only looked at the Ram and Chevy. The dealer they purchased the truck was a dealer my mom worked at since the early sixty's. She's been retired for ~15 years now and the dealer still gave them employee discount.
For me I would have wanted the increase in power like yourself.- We have been on the road for 2 days. Climbed every hill and down. No problems yet. Helped a 6.4 Ford owner today. Chevman
FishOnOne wrote:
My parents finally traded their '05 Duramax for a new '16 Duramax yesterday. They wanted a two wheel drive truck and after my dad saw the pictures of the hood scoop he didn't like it so they went truck shopping at the local dealer. They test drove a Ram Cummins and the Chevy Duramax and decided on the Chevrolet because of more responsive power, transmission shift quality and just a better ride.
Parents go rouge again? No blue tongues!FishOnOne wrote:
My parents finally traded their '05 Duramax for a new '16 Duramax yesterday. They wanted a two wheel drive truck and after my dad saw the pictures of the hood scoop he didn't like so they went truck shopping at the local dealer. They test drove a Ram Cummins and the Chevy Duramax and decided on the Chevrolet because of more responsive power, transmission shift quality and just a better ride.
Funny how people's priorities are different.
765ft/lbs of torque in the '16 was sufficient for them, I suppose? Given they're essentially the same truck, I'd have waited a bit, and taken the additional power of the '17, and learned to accept the hood scoop. But everyone sees things differently, I guess.
Did they look at the '17 F350?
Best of luck to them. They should be very happy with the Chevy!- My parents finally traded their '05 Duramax for a new '16 Duramax yesterday. They wanted a two wheel drive truck and after my dad saw the pictures of the hood scoop he didn't like it so they went truck shopping at the local dealer. They test drove a Ram Cummins and the Chevy Duramax and decided on the Chevrolet because of more responsive power, transmission shift quality and just a better ride.
- GM's 397 hp Duramax blew the doors off the 400 hp Powerstroke running up the Eisenhower pass. Ford boosted their Powestroke to 440 hp in 2015 and when PickUpTruck.com raced them the Ford won by a fraction of a second. For 2017 Ford increased the torque from 860 to 925 ft lbs which will make it much faster on the hill but Gm has gone from 397 hp and 765 lb ft to 445 and 910 lb ft of torque.
- Has Ford ever beat Gm up the Ike with either a gasser or diesel?
