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It's not valid. It is purchased for the performance value, and it clearly delivers. That is not subjective in any way. 4 wheel drive is not unecessary complexity when someone purchases a truck with the requirement that it has 4 wheel drive. :ROFLMAO:

Tonight my truck was parked on the street in front of my house. There was a great thunderstorm moving through and I was watching the rain through the front window and I saw the 12 inch screen on my Rebel come on. It lit up just the way it does when I open the door. The keys were in the house...

The argument isn't "it'll cost too much to fix", it's "fixing it will cost more than any benefit I received from it." Those are very different statements. It adds unnecessary complexity in an attempt to deliver what at best will be a very marginal benefit, and one which will likely be entirely...

Nothing is free. :ROFLMAO: I got the e-torque because I couldn't find a truck without one. Having said that, I don't expect to save much fuel with it, and the e-torque system will eventually break, leaving me with a repair bill that will most likely eat up any fuel savings I saw along the...

Yes. My sensors threw alarms every time a shrub was near my front bumper in the drive through lane, so I turned them off. Then the sensors, both front and rear, began slamming the brakes if I was at the bottom of a hill (like your driveway example), or if I was backing up with grass behind me...

Yep. I'm picturing him taking time out from feeding the dolphins and taking sunset strolls with oiled up, bikini wearing tourists to walk over to his cabana and type out this message about waiting on his truck. :ROFLMAO:

The great thing about being the person selling the "15% improvement" pitch is they don't have to prove anything. They just make the claim and hope it sells more stuff. Unless you're in a highly regulated industry (like prescription drugs, the securities/investments industry, etc) you can...

You'd want a test to compare the drag co-efficient of the truck with and without the tonneau cover. A quick search found the test in the link below, and you could surely find more. The bottom line on the test in the link below says that the tonneau covers they tested changed the drag...

It "seems" to lose power, or it actually does lose power? The way the MDS works is that when it de-activates the four cylinders, it increases fuel to the remaining cylinders to continue down the road at the same level of power...otherwise you wouldn't be able to maintain the same speed. If...

^^^So if you speak with a British accent, you can immediately get 17.3 MPG? Am I reading that right? :ROFLMAO: Not a bad tradeoff, especially since you don't have to do it all the time, just while you're in the truck. That's the first time I've ever seen "UK MPG".

If I can do one thing for you, it might to be allay your concerns about mildew, mold, electrical damage etc. My last truck, a Ford F150 had more water in it over the years than an aquarium at Sea World. The carpets were soaked, the sound-proofing material underneath the carpet was soaked, the...

Maybe I'll turn off my Auto-Stop for two weeks and see if I notice a change. That would be the best comparison, same truck, same driver, same route, same everything except the absence of Auto-Stop. I've been getting 17.2 MPG in the city on a 24 mile round trip to work, with a total 32 stop...

The past two weeks I got 17.2 MPG in city driving. That's 35 to 50 MPH, never leaving stop lights at more than 2,000 RPM, not speeding, and trying to minimize my exposure to red lights. I was pretty happy with that. Today I took a 3 hour road trip on the interstate, speeds on the highway...

For those of you who have the 12 inch screen in your truck, what are your thoughts on it? Super cool? Over rated? Something in between?

I just started experiencing a whining/moaning noise as well (5.7 etorque). No clue where it's coming from, but it's noticeable at times over the sound of the radio. Once it did it upon startup as I was backing out of the driveway, that one was pretty loud. For the past week it's been happening...

Should we start talking about the fact that even on the vehicles the EPA actually tests on the dyno, they don't use ethanol blends? They use straight gas, which is quite difficult to find nowadays, and is more efficient than ethanol. Could keep the thread alive for a while. :ROFLMAO:

I keep a headlamp in the truck. It's wireless, battery operated, click of a button, powerful, requires no install, and you have both hands free. Just a thought.

Mine is red too! Now I really think I'm getting screwed. :ROFLMAO:

There's no way to answer that question because there are too many variables. Your engine, gearing, driving style, types of roads, etc all figure into it. There are people on this board reporting 21+ MPG with the 5.7 and others with very similar setups reporting low teens. All you can do is...

Snow and ice are the easy ones. Off road in muddy conditions is also a good case for it. I've even used it to get going from stop lights in the rain when my tires want to slip, then I just put it back in 2WD after I'm going. Don't worry yourself about damaging the system if things aren't just...