45Ricochet wrote:
They can't be opened with a wheel off the ground :W
3 minute video
The left front tire on the RAM is almost on the ground when they make the open the tailgate test. While the Ford, they did not pull it far enough forward to get that left front tire on the ground.
If you carefully watch the video, you can see the Dodge tailgate right side top touch the bed at 29 seconds into the video. At that point (before the left front tire on the Dodge is on the ground) it's tailgate probably would not open either. Anyway that truck has plenty of tailgate gap, while another production truck, or for that matter most trucks will not have that much tailgate to bed gap.
It is a unfair test, and I bet that they worked hours with the dimensions of the ramps to make sure that the RAM worked great, while it's competitor did not. Or maybe let the Ford truck sit there for a week or two, then try it again, until it would not open.
Check out this Ford Safety Feature!
Clicky It is the Ford produced video of a Dodge truck swaying down a hill with a trailer in tow. Perhaps the 2015 Dodge can tow this trailer with automatic brakes in the current model year Dodge, but they did not have that back in 2012 when this video was made.
Fred.
