Hi Scotty, really enjoy your show. I’ve got a 2005 ram 1500 slt with a 5.7 automatic. First of all, the fluid in the transmission is factory, secondly, the engine is 431,237 km as of now with no end in sight of power loss. I do have headers and a CAI on it. I changed my oil sometimes at 12,000 km. There isn’t a single gasket leak from the engine all the way through to the transfer case. Axle was rebuilt last year from a recall. I’m loving this truck but it is time to up date. What’s your suggestion for the next best ram? A 2018? 2021? What year is best for least problems?
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The best ram is one with toyota badges. It's called the toyota tundra. I would not reccommend any ram 1500; they are bad in every way you could think of (sunroof, suspension, engine, transmission... the list goes on and on and on) and their resale value is awful compared to better made trucks. Get an f150 or tundra. You could get any year of tundra and it will be reliable.
Don't buy a Ram Ram is part of Chrysler which is owned by Fiat the Italian quality in those things are horrible.
You know he's just gonna buy a Ram anyway.
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Might as well warn him before I start talking about which Ram to buy.
@kerem he will eventually just buy a junk ram and then learn that it's bad and try to get rid of it. He's loyal to ram and it will be hard to convince him to get a better truck. My dad had two ram's and both broke down at 100,000 miles and he finally learned that honda's are just better made vehicles and switched o honda.
If you have to get a Dodge Ram before Fiat took over.
All the ram's suck and have problems all over their trucks. except for the 2500 and 3500's with the cummin's turbodiesel 6.7L engines (they still are trash, but they only have good engines). But, this is a scotty Kilmer forum and everyone here will just reccomend the toyota tundra. The 2022 tundra coming out june of this year will probably be an exciting and great truck.
I would stay away from the Ram 1500’s. The only Ram to even consider would be the Ram Heavy Duty (HD) with the 6.7L Cummings Diesel with the Aisin 6-speed AT. But of course the rest of it is FCA, so even that would be hard to recommend.
If you really want another Ram 1500, just lease it or if you buy it keep it under warranty and then get rid of when it expires.
{black}:idontknow: No Well I must of bought the only ram truck outta all of them that lasted.
Well there are many powertrains, the 5.7 V8 is a Hemi engine which is a good engine and the transmission was from the times they made them OK is what I understand. The thing is, times have changed. Now though complciated Ram is part of Stellantis so you have the Italians and French messing it all up. I don't have any personal experience with them but FCA quality is well known. Apparently those with more experience than I have agree. I'd recommend to buy a Ram truck with a Toyota badge on it or an F-150 pre-2018 if you want American. Good luck.