Jus Cruisin
Ram Guru
Ok, I've had the F150 for 5 weeks now. Issues so far - zero. Mileage - just under 800 miles. Basically so far so good. There are 2 hot topics over on the F150 forums. Deep sleep - battery dead and rust on the rear ends and exhaust.
Batteries going dead is something Ford is aware of and an over the air update is due at any time to help resolve it. My feeling is there is so much going on in the background of these new trucks that if something doesn't shut down properly you're going to have a dead truck in a couple of weeks. That seems to be the time some trucks go dead. Not dissimilar of Corvettes. They eat batteries when just sitting for a couple of weeks. At this point, I'll plug it in to the Battery Tender if I know it'll be sitting for over a week. Did that with my Corvettes I owned. The rust? There are some that have excessive rust. Almost like someone had sprayed something corrosive on the exhaust and rear axles. But now that was brought up, anyone with a little rust on the third member or spring perches is having a cow. I've crawled under every truck I've owned and hit the rear axles with Rustoleum. 15 minutes and it's all pretty.
I haven't even messed with the generator yet. I guess it works.....
Hybrid - I'm actually having fun trying to get it to run on electric. Around town I've gotten up to 25-30% of my trip (it gives you a trip summary every time you turn the truck off) on surface streets. You get zero electric at interstate speeds. I've gone into electric up to 50 mph. It doesn't stay electric for miles and miles. The battery isn't all that big and not a plug in.
It does have a muffled beep when backing up. A few owners are annoyed by it. Backing out of the gsrage, it can be faintly heard in the house. Once out in the drive you can't hear it inside. I did a decibel check and it is about 74db.
I'm sold on the 12" screen layout, navigation, presets and favorites.
The screen split is about 75/25 instead of 50/50 on Ram. Favorites pop up and dominate the 75% screen with the song, artist and station and stays on long enough to react. Presets can scroll either direction and can jump from am/fm and siriusxm. Navigation is similar to Google the way it finds something. I can say navigate to Ace Hardware and it will give me a few locations and I can touch the one I want or just speak the number. It then immediately starts the route with miles and eta.
MPG - I haven't hand calculated. I've had some short couple mile runs that showed less than 2 mpg and tonight coming back from Portillo's (about 5 miles) it showed 24.5mpg - 2 miles electric. The LOM shows 17.5ish since I bought it with mostly city short drives.
Outside rearview mirror placement with the dip in the door glass helps eliminate the blindspot next to the A pillars.
I'm used to the running boards not lowering as far as Ram's and previous F150's. I don't understand the reason.
Cruise control is supposed to be hands free by the fall. Right now it pretty much steers itself but you need to keep a hand on the wheel. It reads speed limit signs to adjust the speed. If you set it at 7 over the limit it'll stay 7 over if the speed limit changes. One thing I don't like is that it slows to a reduced speed limit too fast. I would like it to coast down to the lower speed. It feels like it applies brakes to get down to the lower speed.
Power closing tailgate I like. You can have your hands full and just take your knee and start to lift it and it takes over and closes. You can open and close it using the fob.
Wasted enough of your time. I liked the 2019 Ram and at the time it was cutting edge. Now the F150 has taken over. I'm sure the next gen Ram will again jump to the lead again. I don't think you can go wrong with either one.
Batteries going dead is something Ford is aware of and an over the air update is due at any time to help resolve it. My feeling is there is so much going on in the background of these new trucks that if something doesn't shut down properly you're going to have a dead truck in a couple of weeks. That seems to be the time some trucks go dead. Not dissimilar of Corvettes. They eat batteries when just sitting for a couple of weeks. At this point, I'll plug it in to the Battery Tender if I know it'll be sitting for over a week. Did that with my Corvettes I owned. The rust? There are some that have excessive rust. Almost like someone had sprayed something corrosive on the exhaust and rear axles. But now that was brought up, anyone with a little rust on the third member or spring perches is having a cow. I've crawled under every truck I've owned and hit the rear axles with Rustoleum. 15 minutes and it's all pretty.
I haven't even messed with the generator yet. I guess it works.....
Hybrid - I'm actually having fun trying to get it to run on electric. Around town I've gotten up to 25-30% of my trip (it gives you a trip summary every time you turn the truck off) on surface streets. You get zero electric at interstate speeds. I've gone into electric up to 50 mph. It doesn't stay electric for miles and miles. The battery isn't all that big and not a plug in.
It does have a muffled beep when backing up. A few owners are annoyed by it. Backing out of the gsrage, it can be faintly heard in the house. Once out in the drive you can't hear it inside. I did a decibel check and it is about 74db.
I'm sold on the 12" screen layout, navigation, presets and favorites.
The screen split is about 75/25 instead of 50/50 on Ram. Favorites pop up and dominate the 75% screen with the song, artist and station and stays on long enough to react. Presets can scroll either direction and can jump from am/fm and siriusxm. Navigation is similar to Google the way it finds something. I can say navigate to Ace Hardware and it will give me a few locations and I can touch the one I want or just speak the number. It then immediately starts the route with miles and eta.
MPG - I haven't hand calculated. I've had some short couple mile runs that showed less than 2 mpg and tonight coming back from Portillo's (about 5 miles) it showed 24.5mpg - 2 miles electric. The LOM shows 17.5ish since I bought it with mostly city short drives.
Outside rearview mirror placement with the dip in the door glass helps eliminate the blindspot next to the A pillars.
I'm used to the running boards not lowering as far as Ram's and previous F150's. I don't understand the reason.
Cruise control is supposed to be hands free by the fall. Right now it pretty much steers itself but you need to keep a hand on the wheel. It reads speed limit signs to adjust the speed. If you set it at 7 over the limit it'll stay 7 over if the speed limit changes. One thing I don't like is that it slows to a reduced speed limit too fast. I would like it to coast down to the lower speed. It feels like it applies brakes to get down to the lower speed.
Power closing tailgate I like. You can have your hands full and just take your knee and start to lift it and it takes over and closes. You can open and close it using the fob.
Wasted enough of your time. I liked the 2019 Ram and at the time it was cutting edge. Now the F150 has taken over. I'm sure the next gen Ram will again jump to the lead again. I don't think you can go wrong with either one.
