Ram 2021 questions
Going to get a new Ram Have a 2012 3500 Dually going to go to a 3500 crew cab 8 ft bed SRW, is the HO worth the 3 thousand upgrade over the standard cummins. I have the high output on my dually but ...
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BTW, love the CP4 defenders....
Even IF you’re a blind dyed in the wool Blue Oval 4evah kind of person, the fact that now 2 of 3 have dropped the CP4 like a hot potato HAS to register in your cranium. So your defense is simply denial.
To the OP, unless your truck is on its last legs, pump the brakes, Ram got the right IP back on the engines, wait for the Powerline trans later this year, then pull the trigger. Otherwise you may as well keep your old truck, IMO. Not literally, but if you opt for the 68 trans then you’re buying an outdated, ill shifting (albeit generally reliable) transmission to transfer power in your brand new expensive truck!
Idk how Ram has continued to sell trucks so long with the 68. It was bottom of the barrel in 2007 when they introduced it. Now it’s fallen off the low end of the good to bad scale.
I own one. Strange, but fiscally responsible turn of events got me into the 2016 and I can say, deleted emissions, tuned, engine runs like it should. No dead pedal and good old simple (by today’s standards) engine that puts some power down. Trans is tuned as well and either it’s poor tuning or some of the 68 characteristics can’t be programmed out, but it’s evident that it’s a descendant of a long line of ill performing Dodge transmissions!
Heck the rest of the rear wheel drive FCA vehicles dumped the chitty in house transmissions for good 7 model years ago. And some got sent to pasture back in 05? I believe with the introduction of the NAG1. Yet somehow the 68rfe escaped the axe to this day?
Even IF you’re a blind dyed in the wool Blue Oval 4evah kind of person, the fact that now 2 of 3 have dropped the CP4 like a hot potato HAS to register in your cranium. So your defense is simply denial.
To the OP, unless your truck is on its last legs, pump the brakes, Ram got the right IP back on the engines, wait for the Powerline trans later this year, then pull the trigger. Otherwise you may as well keep your old truck, IMO. Not literally, but if you opt for the 68 trans then you’re buying an outdated, ill shifting (albeit generally reliable) transmission to transfer power in your brand new expensive truck!
Idk how Ram has continued to sell trucks so long with the 68. It was bottom of the barrel in 2007 when they introduced it. Now it’s fallen off the low end of the good to bad scale.
I own one. Strange, but fiscally responsible turn of events got me into the 2016 and I can say, deleted emissions, tuned, engine runs like it should. No dead pedal and good old simple (by today’s standards) engine that puts some power down. Trans is tuned as well and either it’s poor tuning or some of the 68 characteristics can’t be programmed out, but it’s evident that it’s a descendant of a long line of ill performing Dodge transmissions!
Heck the rest of the rear wheel drive FCA vehicles dumped the chitty in house transmissions for good 7 model years ago. And some got sent to pasture back in 05? I believe with the introduction of the NAG1. Yet somehow the 68rfe escaped the axe to this day?
