He doesn’t have a LL...he has a Laramie Sport
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5th Gen Ram Sold after 5 Months, PROBLEMS!
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I drove 3.5L TT and 5.0L models; the torque of the EcoBoost made for a quick truck, but I agree with you that the Coyote sings a better tune.
Dontfront82
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"LL" for lemon law, correct ?He doesn’t have a LL...he has a Laramie Sport
No, he said he sold it.
Willwork4truck
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I should have spelled it out, LL meaning “Lemon Law” buyback... and yes, he sold it for a TTTTTundra, LOLHe doesn’t have a LL...he has a Laramie Sport
Wow.
So you bent a rim, got the truck’s underside dirty, and had a minor brake issue. Sounds like you sold due to buyer’s remorse more than anything Ram did.
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You don't want a 5.0 V8 right now. They went to sprayed in cylinder walls (plasma arc) and its causing massive oil consumption issues. Ford is replacing the long blocks in trucks....
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I don't believe it. A truck in 5 month is going to depreciate a lot more than $2,000. Rebates and discounts taken into consideration. (unless the selling dealer the newer one was desperate for a sale,s and overvalued the trade...but that would have been their loss. not the op's)
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Yeah and their Essex engine plant that produces the 5.0 is currently in the middle of a twelve-week shut down. Mum is the word on why, but it appears like they got some fixin' to do over at the blue oval. Lots of threads about replacing 5.0 engines on the Ford truck forums. I think I'd hold off on the purchase of a F150 with the 5.0 right now.
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they are "cutting production back on the 5.0". I can't find any reference to them shutting down for 12 weeks.
A guy in my industry has gone through 2 new 5.0 engines from Ford in his 2017 apparently. Definitely seems like I dodged a bullet. The Hemi was super reliable in my Jeep, figured why not keep going with it and get a RAM.
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5.0's were good engines prior to the 18 model year revision. The Plasma Arc technology to spray the cylinder walls hasn't worked out for ford in the 18 5.0. Worked for Nissan in the GT-R, but causing issues in the f150.
Getting off topic a bit though... :-\
Getting off topic a bit though... :-\
A guy in my industry has gone through 2 new 5.0 engines from Ford in his 2017 apparently. Definitely seems like I dodged a bullet. The Hemi was super reliable in my Jeep, figured why not keep going with it and get a RAM.
Willwork4truck
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Ouch! I have not been on the F150 forums for a while now, better check and see.
On another hand, I had not driven the 19’ for 8 days and so I put the battery charger on it. 6 hrs on the 2 amp setting and it indicated fully charged. When I had my F150 and didnt drive it in a week it took 18 hrs to do the same thing. Lots of owners were having dead battery issues back in 2015-2017. Ford’s battery management system (BMS) wasn’t well thought out it seemed.
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I love my ram but this statement isn’t fair. According to the test data l: “...The Tundra’s elimination from the list leaves the Ford F-150 as the only full-size model above its threshold for a recommendation with a score of 67, followed by the Ram 1500 at 64 and the Tundra at 63.”
Willwork4truck
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It wasn’t “drained”, I just remembered my Ford and figured I’d better check. Same battery charger, hooked up the same way (not putting the negative on the neg of the battery, using a ground bolt) just to keep the variables down.
Like I said, the same stock F150 would go between 16 and 20 hours, often averaging 18, to get the fully charged indicator to light. It had a start/stop system so had a hefty AGM battery in it. The Ram took 6 to do the same thing, so I’d say that my unscientific experiment shows less battery loss due to parasitic drains on the Ram than on the Ford. No aftermarket anything electrical on either truck.
From the F150forum.com, 11-18-2018:
Battery charging with BMS
As my driving patterns are predominately very short trips over extended periods of time (sometimes months) I feel as though routine battery charging on my 2018 could be beneficial. My prior 2000 F150 formed the foundation of this belief as it required periodic charging. The experiences of others on the '15+ forum seem to validate the concept. Therefore I have installed a quick connect harness to facilitate a permanent, more secure method to accomplish charging.
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Willwork4truck
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Nope, nothin’ wrong with the 5.0...
04-14-2018, 10:02 PM
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I started the 17 3.5 rattle thread and I'm currently in the process of a buyback, 30+ days in the shop new phasers, cams and tensioner as well as a PCM reflash and the noise is still there. I believe it to be an oiling issue to the cam phasers on cold starts but ford doesn't seem to have a fix for it, I may go f250 if I stay with ford but the current state of the f150 doesnt sit well with me.
Dontfront82
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I agree
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Damn,
I was having a little buyers remorse when I took my leased Mazda in to get valued/inspected since the lease ends in a few months and started running numbers. They offered me $41K for my Laramie in sig. Honestly, that's about $4-5K off the truck in loss, about $1K per month.
Only remorse is that it's my first big expensive vehicle and the smarter side of me is saying I could of bought 2 nice vehicles for the price of my Laramie lol
I was having a little buyers remorse when I took my leased Mazda in to get valued/inspected since the lease ends in a few months and started running numbers. They offered me $41K for my Laramie in sig. Honestly, that's about $4-5K off the truck in loss, about $1K per month.
Only remorse is that it's my first big expensive vehicle and the smarter side of me is saying I could of bought 2 nice vehicles for the price of my Laramie lol
Not sure what report that all came from, I simply went by the IIHS data:
Tundra did not do very well on the small overlap tests. Marginal and Poor, for driver and passenger respectively, while the RAM did Good on both (highest mark). Likewise, the Tundra only got an Acceptable for roof strength, while the RAM received another Good in this category.
The pictures say quite a bit as well, the Tundra had a fair bit of cab intrusion which is not good at all. I should also admit that the Tundra was on my list between the F150, RAM and Silverado (2018 style), but got pushed out during my test drives and research. The Silverado didn't impress me, and the Ford was a bit more expensive than I wanted to pay for a new truck.
