Ram outsells Chevy

Travlingman wrote:

Turtle n Peeps wrote:
I can't speak for anybody but myself Don.

In my case I own a business and NEED my truck to run every single time I turn the key. I don't have time to deal with service departments for warrantee repair. The down time can kill a small business.

Case in point: A very good friend owns a small business and had a Ford 6.0. The thing was always in the shop for something. Even though his truck was under warrantee it was killing his business.

Another case is a friend with horses. She runs around the state doing rodeo stuff. I think you can see this would not be a good time for a part or engine to fail. You just can't have horses in a trailer along side of the road in July.

Another case is keeping your truck for a long time. I know I'm odd man out on this deal but I keep my trucks a long time. I just don't make the money to buy a 50, 60, 70 thousand dollar truck every 3 to 5 years or so like a lot of you do on this forum. I don't need my truck to make it just past warrantee period. I need to have that truck last 20 years past the warrantee period without a major failure. A 10, 15 20 thousand dollar repair bill is just out of the question.

Then there is the parts availability and safety issue. I have a BMW that has a recall on the airbags. I went to take it in after they issued the recall and they said there were no airbags to be had. Well my daughter is driving this car and the recall still isn't done on it. Some of these trucks on the market take months to get the parts in. How is that going to work with a small business that may only have 1 or 2 trucks in it's fleet?

Anyway, that's why "I" get pissed off. :B

Please tell us what truck it is that you have that is 23 years old(20 years past warranty) and has had no major problems? How many miles does this truck have on it? Have you had any issues at all with this 23 year old truck?

So tell us what diesel we should buy that has no problems? We know from your constant posting that it is not a Ford. It couldn't be a Duramax as they have previously had injector issues, overheating, and recently DEF issues with trucks going into limp mode. Of course the Ram has had tranny issues, front end issues including buybacks, brake controllers not working. So what is this perfect diesel that is going to go 23 years and have no issues? I want to know so I can purchase it.

I think what he meant was that it's one thing to have to put a truck in the shop for 1 or tw2 days. You can normally deal with that. But when you have a brand new truck and you know it's sitting there with it's guts laying on the bench waiting on someone to decide how to fix a problem that should have never been built and no one can give you any answers and they want to give you a loaner Ford escort to replace an F350 it gets kind of old.

I bought a car in 93 that had 8,000 miles on it that was sold to me as new car with full warranty because the dealer used it as a demo. I had the car for 13 months and it was in the shop for 6 of those months (not all at one time). The last time it was in the shop was at around 15,000 miles. It was in there for 3 months total waiting on 1 piston for a V6. The Manufacture would not approve a loaner for any of the time it was in there because they said "you did not by the extended warranty". Needless to say I will never buy another vehicle from this manufacture for a personal ride. By reading all the stuff I read that people are still to this day having problems with it don't look like anthing has changed since then either.