Need advise from the Ram Owners
I’m going to buy a Ram 3500 SRW in November and my dilemma is gas or diesel. I have owned a 02 Cummins for 17 years and it was ole reliable. I only drove it 90,000 in those 17 years and really don’t ...
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cummins2014 wrote:
No they are not a certainty, but as I said the emissions , and actuators are common. your buddy 12V had the actuator go on his. Don't fool yourself that you are exempt with yours . I thought I did everything I was supposed to with mine. Its not a grocery getter, it doesn't sit around and idle. I run it all the time with exhaust brake, and tow haul on. It gets worked pretty hard towing our 15,500 GVWR fifth wheel . Yet at 59K the actuator goes. Not a cheap fix, cheaper if I would have been home ,would have replaced it myself.
Not sure I even alluded to thinking my truck won't have any issues or not lunch a turbo actuator.
Just like no brand is exempt from the occasional total lemon and all brands seem to have some sort of Achilles heel.
Some of it's luck of the draw. A buddy has a LML Dmax. Couldn't use it in a worse way for emissions, almost. Never towed a thing with it. Daily commuter, 1/2hour drive, side streets, shuttling kids around, gets on the highway enough to clean out I suppose because the truck has the better part of 150k miles on it, bone stock and he has had nary an issue with it. It did get plugged up once and had to take it in to get a manual regen.
I would have predicted that he would have lots of issues, but???
