Towing
My wife and I are trying to decide which would be our next truck to tow our T T we are thinking about a ford F 250 with 7.1 diesel or a dodge 2500 with a Hemi with auto trans and four wheel drive, 4 ...
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gcloss wrote:
I would say part of your decision could be based on your plans. Short trips you could get away with the Ram with the Hemi. Long trips I'd opt for the diesel.
My camping trips recently changed from short 150 mile one-way trips to 325 to 425 mile one-way trips. Just did my second trip this year with my Ram 2500 gasser for 436 miles one-way. It wasn't a bad experience, I just wish I had a diesel.
Next year I have two 900+ mile trips planned.
I'll bet you're not wishing for the added maintenance costs.
I talked myself into a diesel because everywhere we go we have to cross the Rockies. I used to fry my back side towing with my old Ford with the 7000# package and get past by just about everything else on the road.
The Ram Cummins saves me all of about 45 minutes to get through the Rockies, after the Rockies the Ford did just as good as the Ram.
Ram Cummins takes twice the oil for a change, gets no better fuel mileage and diesel now costs more than gas. Just about every maintenance item for the Cummins runs 50% more than the Ford and that is getting the fleet price at Cummins. (Just lucky I smile at the parts manager, she's another red head.)
If only the 2014 version of the Ram 2500 with the bigger Hemi and 4 link rear suspension would have been around when I bought the Cummins.
