Viperpoker wrote:
I started this thread trying to determine what was different about GM that made their tow ratings so much lower last year, as compared to Ram and Ford. The announcement of the new GM truck explained what they had to improve and answered the question. This thread was intended as a discussion of the mechanical capabilities of these trucks, not a gripe session about quality or where the manufacturers should focus their dollars.
Then stop quoting and rebutting what I am saying and I won't respond. Just let me leave my opinion like everyone else does and be done with it. However, you keep rebutting me because you don't like my opinion and I am returning the favor.
Viperpoker wrote:
And as far as I am concerned, the more power the better. I would like to pull out on an on ramp and be able to accelerate as well as I can accelerate when I am not towing. I would like to "forget the trailer is behind me". I know that is not going to happen, but I am never going to complain about more power in any of my vehicles. No one has to buy these vehicles, but it is nice to have the choice to do so. You also have the choice not to buy them.
No I don't have a choice. When I go to replace my current truck in five years, I will have to buy a CP4 Cummins all because fanboys wanted more stock power instead of sticking with the reliable CP3 pump and turning to the aftermarket for power as I have said in other threads. I can guarantee you that my 500rwhp CP3 Cummins is a lot more reliable at that power rating than a new CP4 Cummins is making 400hp at the crank. No failure prone CP4, no pushing exhaust gases into the intake, no fuel dilution on regens, no pilot injection to wear the injectors out faster, no unnecessary actuation of the VG turbo for emissions to wear it out faster, no carbon gumming up the VG vanes, no restrictive DPF making the EGT high, and so on.
