thats a Dodge for ya..our company has a dodge ram for shop purposes, and I went up to it, and literally shook the bed of the truck... the bolts must have rusted off or got really loose that hold the bed on, and I could actually lift up the entire bed off the back of the frame!

Granted, the trucks 7 years old, but damn.. just proves that these trucks don't last worth squat

 

The new dodge trucks look good and finally have a good Gasoline engine but I feel the Fords are just a much better built truck. I have read much more problems with dodges than with fords.

Matt....I am guessing you have something personal against cyclone vampire for your blunt comments but oh well.

Maybe it is time for him to move on to the Dodge ram forums and not try to convert us loyal ford owners.

 

I'm the first to admit the F-150 has the best built frame and body in the industry on the 04+ F-150, But I will not repeat why I changed brands or recant my true fealing on the last four years of my F-150 expierances.

Dodge still has a nasty reputation for thier automatic trans in the Ram, I bought a 6sp manual to aviod any problems with thier automatics and I really do wish all the F-150 owners here the best of luck with thier trucks.

I used to be on the Ford program and thier are year's proir to 97 were they were the best trucks on the road.

Any one can say bad words abought any brand, and If your convinced I'm out to paint all Ford F-150's in a dim light, I do have a great collection of work orders I can post...

Dodge has started to turn up thier quality and I don't want to convert any one to a dodge, thier hard to get used to after my years of driving the F-150 and in some ways thier quite strange...

I like my truck, not for the negative, but for the simplicity of how well it fit's my needs, I do miss the refignment of the Ford, ie rack and pinion stearing, but with dodge I get a truck I stratch my legs out in, move a house when needed, gets great mileage ( for a 3/4 ton ) and the h/p and torque in the hemi is awsome.. and with a 6sp is dam fun to drive.

Ford is in rough times, dodge was thier before the US. government ( tax payers ) bailed them out in the 80's and the Jeep brand saved dodge/chrysler a thousand times over.

So, I will no longer post negative comments on Ford. some of you don't take well to the othier side of trucks, but I will respect that this is indeed F-150 online and this web site has served me excellantly in the positive moments I enjoyed in good times with the F-150...

As posted above, it is indeed time for me to move on out here, and as one last parting comment, the super duty Fords are the best dam trucks on the road with a 6.0. I have never posted any bad comments on this truck, I just could not afford one.

Stay positive, any brand can kill ya when the going in less than perfect...

 

Actually it was the K-cars that helped chyrsler not the AMC buyout.

 

Yes The K Car, I remenber the ones that talked to you when you got into the car and talked back when the oil or coolant was low, not the base Kcar but the up scale Lebaron, New yorker model's.

Every passenger car in dodges line up was based on the K car, even the Mini van, dodge did have a good stake in the cop car market with the diplomat and the Fury, which were rwd, than they built a huge thing called a ST. Regis.

 

Yeah I think they lost alot of market share when they stopped making the rear wheel drive cars in 1989. At least not with the magnum,charger and new streched 300c thay can get back in the cop car and even livery bussiness with the 300c.

 

I love the looks of the 300 C and the Mangnum, less clasy Bently For sure, But I still like the looks, I'm disaponited in the lack of room inside the 300 C, I'm six ft five and it's not a comfortable car for me to drive, the Ford 500 has way more room and alot less H/P than the base V/6 in the charger/300C, awd, if Ford were to cook up a supercharged 5.4 and go back to Rwd, the 500 would be a performnce leader.

The SRT 8 300 C, Ford should look into buliding a domestic 4 door performance car, not the Lincolin/Volvo cross bred thing.

 

If my truck falls apart at 70 MPH with only 60,000 miles on it, I'd be pissed! My truck with almost 112K on it was doing just about that in MPH the other day with crap in the bed, including a couch, a BBQ, and a pop up tent/shelter thing.

 

Actually since the dodge 2500 biggest gas would be 5.7hemi and the ford f-250s biggest gas would be the v10 would that not be apples to apples. Since they are both 3/4 ton trucks.

 

i challenge anybody with a 2500 hemi to race a f250 V10. they will get there a$$ handed to them by the V10.

 

Hmmm......what about a SRT-10 V10 to your Ford V10. My dad has an excursion with the V10 and its not too quick to me. But it will pull a bulldozer.

 

true but i was comparing 3/4 ton to 3/4 ton not sport truck to 3/4 ton

 

Yah the SRT10 vs ford v10 was just a redicoulous comment since you cant get the V10 in anything smaller then a 3/4 ton...

Anyways we just got done replacing a heater core on an 03 dodge Ram 4.7L And we did a test drive around the school campus, and the truck rode really rough, i think my 4.6L lowered screw rides better then this stock ram 4dr does....
-Patrick

 

The excursion had the 2v motor. The 3v is much more motor, not enough to race an srt-10 but I would be glad to put a ton of bricks in my bed and still hook a chain to the srt-10 and drag it around like a toy.

 

redicoulous?

Yah