Ram owners; Ram 1500/2500 ownership question
I've been doing a bit of research about my next truck. We are looking at an older Airstream to restore for retirement travel; weighs about 7,000 loaded. The trailer will be paid for cash, so we have a...
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The wife and I just traded in our 2012 4x4 mega can 2500 a few months ago. We loved it
She had the 5.7 V8 and well we really mostly used it for towing. Traded it in with only 24,000 miles on it.
Anyways when we bought it she was getting about 10-12 highway and 9-10 city unloaded.
We had a travel trailer to start right around 7k and highway was about 8.
We used that for one year and then upgraded to a fifth wheel 12k(after loading for trip)
During the winter I ripped the exhaust off and added a flowmaster muffler then a cold air intake
And to top it off I added a Bully Dog tuner and set it for towing.
It took sometime but each time we drove the truck it got better and better mileage.
We went on a weekend away no camper to Maine 5 hr trip and she was getting 18 to 18.5 on the highway and then 12-13 in the city.
If I wasn't heavy on the peddle with the trailer I could hold her at 11 on the highway.
Our last long trip to Pennsylvania 9hr ride after the math was done she was at 10.5 and dash was reading 10MPG.
Now to help from the stop and go point for highway use I added a 40 gallon transfer flow tank to the bed and hooked it to my normal tank so 76 gallons before having to stop made it a great ride.
I'm not heavy on the foot from the start line and I baby my trucks so the mileage stays high.
But again this truck was 80% towing truck or a night out and we want to take the badass rig truck.
She had the 5.7 V8 and well we really mostly used it for towing. Traded it in with only 24,000 miles on it.
Anyways when we bought it she was getting about 10-12 highway and 9-10 city unloaded.
We had a travel trailer to start right around 7k and highway was about 8.
We used that for one year and then upgraded to a fifth wheel 12k(after loading for trip)
During the winter I ripped the exhaust off and added a flowmaster muffler then a cold air intake
And to top it off I added a Bully Dog tuner and set it for towing.
It took sometime but each time we drove the truck it got better and better mileage.
We went on a weekend away no camper to Maine 5 hr trip and she was getting 18 to 18.5 on the highway and then 12-13 in the city.
If I wasn't heavy on the peddle with the trailer I could hold her at 11 on the highway.
Our last long trip to Pennsylvania 9hr ride after the math was done she was at 10.5 and dash was reading 10MPG.
Now to help from the stop and go point for highway use I added a 40 gallon transfer flow tank to the bed and hooked it to my normal tank so 76 gallons before having to stop made it a great ride.
I'm not heavy on the foot from the start line and I baby my trucks so the mileage stays high.
But again this truck was 80% towing truck or a night out and we want to take the badass rig truck.
