Why did you buy a Ford over a Dodge?

blofgren wrote:

FishOnOne wrote:

Adam R wrote:
So, by the count above it's about 15 good reasons to buy a Ford vs. 1 good reason (the Cummins) to buy a Ram. A second would be Ram's available Megacab.

I've gone back and forth on which truck to buy and I'll be purchasing a Ford. The Ram is a decent package, but there is no way I could accept the dead pedal issue which I experienced over and over again on numerous test drives with the exception of one truck.

Now if Ford could obtain the rights to put the Cummins in their trucks, it would be game over for Ram IMHO. If you are worried about reliability, buy the 7 or 8 year extended warranty and don't sweat it for that period of time.

Adam

In my opinion the 6.7 cummins and the Mega Cab are not necessarily a bonus either. Our 07 dodge DRW has the Mega Cab and I swear the back side behind the doors is a plastic material. It does have the 5.9 CTD which I consider a bonus over the 6.7 CTD.

I did not buy an extended warranty on my truck and I plan on keeping it much longer than 8 years. I firmly believe that it is not a matter of if but rather when a CP4 equipped truck experiences a catastrophic failure and I wanted nothing to do with it.

I love my Cummins 6.7L Megacab DRW! And the cab is definitely not plastic, Fish. :R. And do you really want to start comparing your 07 Dodge DRW Cummins 5.9L to a 2007 F350 6.0L?? ;)

I don't consider the Megacab a bonus at all since you can't get it with an 8' bed. Short bed trucks are useless to me. The regular quad cab of the Ram has much less rear seating space than the Ford.

As far as the rare CP4 failure, if it fails due to fuel contamination, it's an insurance claim pure and simple.

My cousin had to file a claim for bad fuel on his truck, they paid to replace his fuel system on his 99 Dodge 2500 5.9 24v.