New Ram Hurricane Owner

[tylergeorgewhite]

I think the new truck is brutal personally. I find it feels like it's made for today's soft society...super dainty, I don't like the over safety in the truck with all the safety tech, the knob gear shifter is lame, the traction control is too much, completely cuts your power in a slippage situation, the stereo doesn't work in the cold, just makes scratching sounds, I had a check engine light come on for an O2 sensor at 5000km... I wanted to put larger tires on it, but I'm afraid this cheap POS won't be able to handle it lol. By far the most disappointed I've been with a new vehicle purchase in my life. And I learned a valuable lesson to not purchase a vehicle brand new without driving it first....I had it delivered...

 

[Fatherof3]

Welcome to the forum , glad you like your new truck .

 

[firecadet613]

I think the new truck is brutal personally. I find it feels like it's made for today's soft society...super dainty, I don't like the over safety in the truck with all the safety tech, the knob gear shifter is lame, the traction control is too much, completely cuts your power in a slippage situation, the stereo doesn't work in the cold, just makes scratching sounds, I had a check engine light come on for an O2 sensor at 5000km... I wanted to put larger tires on it, but I'm afraid this cheap POS won't be able to handle it lol. By far the most disappointed I've been with a new vehicle purchase in my life. And I learned a valuable lesson to not purchase a vehicle brand new without driving it first....I had it delivered...

You bought a 2025 Ram before even driving one?!

 

[Dewey]

Good thing you did your research before purchasing.

 

[LOWRMPG]

Sounds like an educated consumer.

 

[msnyder1112]

No need for insults.
Its 2025, it isn’t uncommon to buy a vehicle sight unseen anymore.

Did you have a prior year 5th gen to compare to? I don’t much about the 2025s but I couldn’t imagine a ton of technology updates.

 

[Klink]

Sorry to hear of this.

 

[Biga]

So you didn't test drive the truck you actually bought you didn't go out and drive a similar one at a local dealer?

No need for insults.
Its 2025, it isn’t uncommon to buy a vehicle sight unseen anymore.

True, but I can't imagine spending 70-80 grand on a new vehicle and not at least going to test drive a similiar one at a local dealer especially if I've never driven the new power train.

 

[msnyder1112]

So you didn't test drive the truck you actually bought you didn't go out and drive a similar one at a local dealer?

True, but I can't imagine spending 70-80 grand on a new vehicle and not at least going to test drive a similiar one at a local dealer especially if I've never driven the new power train.

I mean, i wouldn’t. Sounds like you wouldn’t. But with sites like Carvana, that’s becoming more normal. Doesnt warrant people to act high and mighty and ****ty towards OP.

 

[Biga]

I mean, i wouldn’t. Sounds like you wouldn’t. But with sites like Carvana, that’s becoming more normal. Doesnt warrant people to act high and mighty and ****ty towards OP.

Oh I agree everyone makes mistakes. God knows I have my far share of them. As long as g as you learn from it. Thiers all the people that pre ordered cyber trucks and actually took delivery now trying to unload them for big losses.

 

[firecadet613]

I mean, i wouldn’t. Sounds like you wouldn’t. But with sites like Carvana, that’s becoming more normal. Doesnt warrant people to act high and mighty and ****ty towards OP.

No high and mighty here.

I couldn't imagine buying a vehicle you'll have for 1+ years without driving that same make and model!

You've never had a rental and hated it?

Did you have a prior year 5th gen to compare to? I don’t much about the 2025s but I couldn’t imagine a ton of technology updates.

The 2025s have an entirely new electricay system, which is likely the cause of many issues. It's all over this forum.

 

[Fatherof3]

No need for insults.
Its 2025, it isn’t uncommon to buy a vehicle sight unseen anymore.

Did you have a prior year 5th gen to compare to? I don’t much about the 2025s but I couldn’t imagine a ton of technology updates.

First of all we have a few posts on here from people just looking to stir up crap and don’t actually own the truck .
The new Rams have the UConnect 5 as the older ones have the UConnect 4 .
A lot of the safety stuff can be turned off .
The O2 sensor was just bad luck . That sort of thing could happen to anyone .
The rotary shifter is something to get used to but once you do you’ll probably like it .

 

[HemiDude]

Too bad you got a bad one. Which model did you get, might be useful info for other potential buyers? I hated the shifter knob the entire two years I had my '20, literally was one of the reasons I sought out a GT to replace it.

 

[DucatiT1098s]

I think the new truck is brutal personally. I find it feels like it's made for today's soft society...super dainty, I don't like the over safety in the truck with all the safety tech, the knob gear shifter is lame, the traction control is too much, completely cuts your power in a slippage situation, the stereo doesn't work in the cold, just makes scratching sounds, I had a check engine light come on for an O2 sensor at 5000km... I wanted to put larger tires on it, but I'm afraid this cheap POS won't be able to handle it lol. By far the most disappointed I've been with a new vehicle purchase in my life. And I learned a valuable lesson to not purchase a vehicle brand new without driving it first....I had it delivered...

Thanks for the brutally honest owner review and not a review from YouTubers telling us it makes this much more power and it’s just really quite compared to the HEMI that’s why I bought a 21’ w/ 29k mi and in great shape and it sounds like with the new CEO from the past that was a huge HEMI advocate has people talking he’s bringing it back and hopefully not just in the high end muscle cars

 

[Phoon]

Who buys a truck without driving it... seems like all of the features with the exception of the quality issues are things you should have noticed prior to purchasing. Ram makes tons of trim levels for that reason, if you dont like tech then buy a Warlok. Traction control can be turned off or changed in the modes, regular shifter is available on GT trucks. Its not rams fault that you bought the wrong truck!

 

[Willwork4truck]

The higher powered engine that's standard in the Limited and up should be a lot faster than the hemi. Even the standard hurricane should beat it.
There's been lots of posts about the electrical however they will get fixed, eventually.

If the OP just can't stand it then sell, take the loss and try one of the other brands, no wait, GM is having continual ADM/lifter and trans issues, Toyo has its share of bad motors, Nissan is out, Ferd is well, a crapshoot...

I'd just keep it, get an extended factory warranty and try to enjoy it. Nothing built in the last 5-10 years (or more) is any much better, just a different set of issues.

First world problems.

A team of oxen is pretty reliable...

 

[CalvinC]

I think the OP is just keying into something common to all - at least most - new cars these days.

I dialed in when he said they seem like they’re built for a soft society.

I don’t know what it is, but at some point in recent years it’s like cars began to feel like they really weren’t supposed to be driven. Like they’re just some kind of stop gap until we all just succumb to mobility pods.

More power than ever before, higher quality of suspension components than ever, physics defying tire technology, certainly higher costs than ever before, and….

We get vehicles that resist spurring. That don’t communicate, but rather isolate. That override our will and inputs. That beep incessantly at us all day long. That don’t reward being an active participant in the driving process.

“Forget driving, have you seen the screen on this bad boy?”

OP comes from a long line of Rams so has some calibration of what to expect I’d say.
But somewhere along the line that paradigm shift to the current anodyne driving experience created a product that can be quite jarring to someone who still maintains a foothold in yesteryear’s vehicles that made the driver an integral part of the locomotion equation.

I think it’s product strategy circa 2020 & beyond, if I had to draw a line.

I say this after shopping for a new car for the wife and driving literally everything in the segment - and a lot of other things, too. Everything made now is a disposable appliance. Everything made me long to go back and buckle into my older cars.

The hunt and final acquisition for a new car use to be exhilarating. Now it feels like getting the latest iPhone. Very meh.

Even a pickup should have some soul. Put it this way… I don’t foresee people naming their trucks much any more.

 

[Blackdog.Tx]

Well, put some bigger tires on her, run her through some mud, and see what the b!+@h will do... Like rodeo banging a sweathog.

You don't like her anyway..