RAM passes FORD in HD sales.

Flashman wrote:

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spud1957 wrote:
Good on Ram. Would the Cummins be a big reason?



GM's number are really small.

Remember that GM does not currently offer a class 4 or 5. So the numbers you see are only the 3500. Still smaller than they should be, but they cant sell what they don't currently make. The GM/IH agreement should produce a good medium duty truck (I hope).

I liked the Kodiak and never understood why they dropped it..

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I just traded a 5500 crew cab 4X4 that I bought new in 05. I liked many things about it. Very heavy duty truck, high ground clearance, great off road. Very solid when working at max capacity, so solid that it could easily give you the confidence to overload it. The things I didn't like were the worst ride I have every experienced on anything south of some old IH dump trucks I used to own. It needed to be carrying 4K on the flatbed to feel even close to comfortable. The interior was extremely cheap for a medium duty truck. Just not construction duty quality. It would throw codes every so often, some electrical issues came up. It sucked that only a medium duty dealer could work on them (officially). Given all of that it was a great work truck for us. I took the seat out of the back and built a storage rack. It was workhorse for 10 years.

This Fall I get a call from my employees that the 5500 is in limp mode pulling an excavator on the highway. They got it home and we pulled it into the dealer. We found that 7 out of 8 injectors were bad and worst of all, one of the cylinders had washed out and lost compression. I ran the repair numbers and traded it on the stump. I am now making do with two 3500's (06 and 15)until they release the new 5500.

GM needed to update the truck, obviously with the bankruptcy they dropped those trucks all together. I think if the truck could have been been refined some more it could have been excellent.