Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
yr2017 you are the first one I have heard that says the new Rams rattle. The one I test drove was as quite as my Dads 2013 Caddy and it was an Outdoorsman.
Rattles, sounds like the old days of bottles and caps left in the door. I pulled onto the pavement to see if the gravel road was the problem - it wasn't.
As far as the Grand Cherokee goes, those things can be ordered with more skid plates then any pickup truck ever built. Front suspension skid plate, fuel tank skid plate shield, transfer case skid plate and underbody skid plate! Along with a much better four wheel drive system too. So unless your running over pot holes at 35 MPH the GC is better protected then the trucks you list in your sig. But to each their own.Don
You shouldn't need skid plates unless you're a mogger. Well, these new GC's wouldn't last that long even with plates. They are road cars.
The roads I drive on every day (to/from Hwy 83) are 10 miles of gravel
and few potholes that we fill every month are driven at speeds up to 45mph. None of my trucks have skid plates and none have sustained damage. If put on 6mm plates - it would add a considerable weight - something I don't need.
