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Personally, I would ditch the CAI and keep the catch can.

Vehicles have gotten much larger/heavier and more powerful. That 1989 Plymouth Acclaim generated a whopping 100hp and weighed less than 2800 lbs. A Honda Civic these days weighs a MINIMUM of 2800 lbs. And nobody will buy a car generating 100hp anymore. You'd probably have to use a 1.3L...

So what do you do with this paint protection film (PPF) when it gets ratty? Is it easy to remove? I've see plenty of used cars with this stuff kind of checkered and peeling. Doesn't look any better than a scratched car IMHO. If it's easy to remove (and potentially replace), that's different...

Actually, I think it was General Beringer at NORAD.

I will take GM's LS/LT V8 engines in any vehicle, any day (w/o cylinder deactivation, of course), but they can keep the rest.

My perfect truck would be a Ram 1500 with a GM 6.2L sans Active Fuel Mgmt / Displacement-on-Demand, but a 6.4L Hemi would be quite tempting as well. On second thought, the new 7.3L Ford V8 gas motor would be my first choice.

Ok, you don't like them. Fair enough.

Not sure why it's obvious not to consider Ford.

IMHO, the Consumer Reports crown has tarnished beyond usefulness. When I bought my two Toyotas (RAV4 and 4Runner), I looked at carcomplaints.com for the two models and the number of complaints even relative to comparable Honda models was dramatically lower. Besides, I don't believe Consumer...

Why is the red start/stop button desirable?

I have three other vehicles in the family: Mazda3, RAV4 and 4Runner. I expect the Mazda and RAV4 to be at least 15 yrs old when I get rid of them. I expect the 4Runner to be at least 20 yrs old. The RAM will be a 2-3 year "toy" which I will sell before it starts to come apart at the seams...

Looks to be on backorder.

OEM generator = $798; OEM alternator = $319

Understood. Ram (or any automaker) doesn't make much of anything anymore. They assemble. When I said "stop building" I meant I'm concerned that Ram will stop building eTorque vehicles soon.

So they weren't helpful at all. I figured as much. Sorry to hear that.

My concern is that Ram will stop building these (eTorque vehicles) soon. They will move on to something else. Then we could end up owning "those oddball eTorques" that were only made for 4-5 years and for which the unique parts (i.e. generator unit and 48V battery) are scarce and expensive...

Mine does it. Brand new 2021 with manual climate control. I rarely run mine in recirc mode. It's doing this in non-recirc mode.

Did you end up taking it to the dealer on May 18th?

That's really a bummer. Pinging is so annoying and there is no excuse for modern vehicles to do it unless there is a (fixable) problem. I hope you don't get the same runaround from your dealer that I've gotten with prior vehicles that had this problem. They would run a few tests and check for...

Are you sure that was pinging (i.e. detonation)? If you had a bad lifter, maybe you were hearing metal-on-metal contact.