New 3500 DRW

CampingN.C. wrote:

minnow wrote:
What's the purpose of doing a lift on a new truck. Just for looks or is there some tangible benefit to jacking the truck up ?

Someone once told me if you have to justify every purchase you'll never buy anything and live a boring life. Don't always need it, sometimes you just wanna have it!!!
Basically the same reason all my buddies ask me why I bought a diesel to tow 9000lbs. :D

Sweet truck OP

Very true! No one NEEDS an RV but obviously we all here have one. If the man wants to lift his new 3500, so be it, surprising that someone talks of vanity on this forum. Like there isn't a certain amount of vanity in pulling a $70K trailer with a $70K pickup, no one here mentions that. Ah the 1st World problems we have to contend with.

CampingN.C. wrote:

minnow wrote:
What's the purpose of doing a lift on a new truck. Just for looks or is there some tangible benefit to jacking the truck up ?

Someone once told me if you have to justify every purchase you'll never buy anything and live a boring life. Don't always need it, sometimes you just wanna have it!!!
Basically the same reason all my buddies ask me why I bought a diesel to tow 9000lbs. :D

Sweet truck OP

Thank you- one does wonder why people attack others.

minnow wrote:
What's the purpose of doing a lift on a new truck. Just for looks or is there some tangible benefit to jacking the truck up ?

Someone once told me if you have to justify every purchase you'll never buy anything and live a boring life. Don't always need it, sometimes you just wanna have it!!!
Basically the same reason all my buddies ask me why I bought a diesel to tow 9000lbs. :D

Sweet truck OP

I did it because I like the way it looks. The bigger tires don't hurt in the soft stuff when towing in deep sand but it is mostly for looks.
At any rate- it's a dream to drive and just a really comfortable ride. Picked up the wife and kids this morning and headed to the coast for the weekend and it was a hoot. Looking forward to adding a few more things and just putting a bunch of miles on her.

minnow wrote:
What's the purpose of doing a lift on a new truck. Just for looks or is there some tangible benefit to jacking the truck up ?

It's just for looks basically. Looks a bit more macho I guess. :) All the high school guys do it around here. I've never really understood it myself, but it's very popular in some places.

Vanity, ego, place to waste money and create a questionable warranty scenario? I did quite a few things to my 2001.5, for my 2015 I bought a 8yr/120k warranty and I am going to just drive and enjoy it the way RAM built it. Chris

What's the purpose of doing a lift on a new truck. Just for looks or is there some tangible benefit to jacking the truck up ?

Nice dually fly boy.Had a 07 white gmc 2500 with a 8 inch lift towing a 40 ft 5ver and sat level.
With 7 inch bed rail clearance. No lift on the 5'ver
Now my 08 dually might have 5 inches of clearance being stock :(

Come on guys, why would anyone want a two tone truck. Chris

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FishOnOne wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:
Looks nice!!! One concern I would have is your rear tires are past your mudflaps. A AzzMonkey cop may use that as an excuse to pull you over and possibly write a ticket for that and???

Anyway have fun with it!

White is nice, I like a little Gold on mine.

Funny you mention that... I recently saw a new white Chevy truck with a similar lift as fly boy's but in a SRW, and had a gold/adobe painted bottom part that looked good. I don't know why GM doesn't offer a two tone anymore.

I don't know why they don't do two tone. They haven't for a long time. They should bring it back.

Agreed... it's way over due.