What did you do to your Ram today???

[User_63152]

I installed my tow hooks. They’ve been waiting in a box for several week, I’m glad to have them on the truck.

Pretty.
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[31RamIt]

I had a 7/16 wrench stand on its end just before I ran over it. Saw it at the last minute turning into my neighborhood, somehow it stood up on its end and went through the right front tire. Made it the 1/4 mile to my driveway just to here the hiss of the last of the air escape.

Crazy **** happens.

 

[Gitter]

Thank you! Taping off the outer curves and the inner curved edges of the blind spot sensor cover was a nightmare. I first attempted to trace the curves out with an Exacto knife but felt like I was scratching the sh!t out of the lenses more than anything. I resorted to cutting out tiny strips of masking tape and using the straight edges of the tape to gradually follow the curves. This was painstakingly monotonous and took up about 75% of the entire time I spent on this project. It was a very crude but surprisingly effective method.

10/10 would suffer again lol

I did the same method and it worked out well. Almost a year later and it still looks great and have not had a single issue with the blind spot system (even with the trailer auto detect feature).

 

[HSKR R/T]

I got the truck with 32k miles, and both front tires had significant wear on the outer edge- it wouldn’t have passed state inspection I just bought new-ish tires on FB, so figured it was a good time to get it done. The front passenger side was off but only a little, so most likely the previous owner just never rotated. I rotate the tires on all my vehicles when I change the oil. It’s probably overkill but at least I know they’ll wear evenly.

Just some of the things to worry about when buying a used vehicle.

There seems to be a known issue with the air ride suspension and premature tire wear on the edges. Most have determined it to be caused by the aero mode when driving, or driving in off-road 1 or 2 for looks, as the alignment is done in regular hight mode, and when you raise or lower it with the air ride, the camber alignment changes.

 

[HSKR R/T]

Thank you! Taping off the outer curves and the inner curved edges of the blind spot sensor cover was a nightmare. I first attempted to trace the curves out with an Exacto knife but felt like I was scratching the sh!t out of the lenses more than anything. I resorted to cutting out tiny strips of masking tape and using the straight edges of the tape to gradually follow the curves. This was painstakingly monotonous and took up about 75% of the entire time I spent on this project. It was a very crude but surprisingly effective method.

10/10 would suffer again lol

Next time use electrical tape, or pinstripping to go around the curves. It will stretch and trace the curves. Then you can.put the masking tape over top of that and not worry about it having to be exact.

 

[Dogpatch]

There seems to be a known issue with the air ride suspension and premature tire wear on the edges. Most have determined it to be caused by the aero mode when driving, or driving in off-road 1 or 2 for looks, as the alignment is done in regular hight mode, and when you raise or lower it with the air ride, the camber alignment changes.

I have the air ride. I haven’t seen any issue with abnormal wear regarding aero mode. Of course, I rotate tires every oil change at 5k.
You can only use Off-road setting up to 45mph, so you’re not going to see much of that happening as a cause, unless you don’t go beyond city driving as constantly resetting it would be a pain in the derrière.
Although….I imagine some don’t mind a bit of pain to look cool.

 

[HSKR R/T]

I have the air ride. I haven’t seen any issue with abnormal wear regarding aero mode. Of course, I rotate tires every oil change at 5k.
You can only use Off-road setting up to 45mph, so you’re not going to see much of that happening as a cause, unless you don’t go beyond city driving as constantly resetting it would be a pain in the derrière.
Although….I imagine some don’t mind a bit of pain to look cool.

There is an entire thread about abnormal tire wear. Almost everyone posting in that thread has the air ride suspension. You don't see many with out air ride saying they have the issue.

 

[User_67930]

The gloss black Limited B pillar trim came in and I got it installed.


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But, whoever packed them messed up. The drivers side rear bag was labeled correctly but the part inside was wrong, so now I have to go back to the dealership and exchange it for the right piece.

 

[MannyN]

The gloss black Limited B pillar trim came in and I got it installed.
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But, whoever packed them messed up. The drivers side rear bag was labeled correctly but the part inside was wrong, so now I have to go back to the dealership and exchange it for the right piece.
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Nice, but for me it looks out of place as everything else on the windows is matt.

 

[jloops]

The gloss black Limited B pillar trim came in and I got it installed.
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But, whoever packed them messed up. The drivers side rear bag was labeled correctly but the part inside was wrong, so now I have to go back to the dealership and exchange it for the right piece.
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I ordered from BAM and had the same issue. The outside package was labeled “B Pillar Applique, Left 68292937ac“, but inside it had the B Pillar Applique, Left 68292935ac”. How was the install?

 

[User_67930]

I ordered from BAM and had the same issue. The outside package was labeled “B Pillar Applique, Left 68292937ac“, but inside it had the B Pillar Applique, Left 68292935ac”. How was the install?

Super easy. There is one little torx screw on the inside of each door, remove it and then just grab hold of the original trim piece and pull it off. They are held in by 3 clips and 2 strips of double sided tape.

 

[User_67930]

Nice, but for me it looks out of place as everything else on the windows is matt.

It looks way better in person then in pics. It makes the front and rear door glass look like one piece instead of 2 with a cheap looking plasticky divider.

 

[Nova90]

The gloss black Limited B pillar trim came in and I got it installed.
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But, whoever packed them messed up. The drivers side rear bag was labeled correctly but the part inside was wrong, so now I have to go back to the dealership and exchange it for the right piece.
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Looks good. As mine fades, this looks like a nice option.

 

[bigdodge]

The gloss black Limited B pillar trim came in and I got it installed.
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But, whoever packed them messed up. The drivers side rear bag was labeled correctly but the part inside was wrong, so now I have to go back to the dealership and exchange it for the right piece.
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do you have a link to the place you got these from?

 

[ferraiolo1]

Washed both black vehicles

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[djevox]

Finally installed my Net Audio box with Sundown SA-12 sub and Sundown SFB-1000 amp.
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And removed the teeny tiny factory Alpine subwoofer
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And I also discovered that blue streak pearl is the same shade as Bud Light!!!!!
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Something that surprised me when I unhooked my alpine sub was that it set 3 codes in the BCM (1 for each voice coil disconnected). The dealer alerted me to that one and I told them to ignore it.

 

[jlinsenbardt]

Hellwig ... that is all.

 

[BowDown]

There seems to be a known issue with the air ride suspension and premature tire wear on the edges. Most have determined it to be caused by the aero mode when driving, or driving in off-road 1 or 2 for looks, as the alignment is done in regular hight mode, and when you raise or lower it with the air ride, the camber alignment changes.

I have air ride and only noticed this on the stock goodyears. 10k miles into the pirelli as+3 and I have noticed no wear whereas the stock tires were over 1/2 gone at 10k miles. I leave the air system in automatic and am in aero 99% of the time.

 

[BowDown]

There is an entire thread about abnormal tire wear. Almost everyone posting in that thread has the air ride suspension. You don't see many with out air ride saying they have the issue.

I've seen none air ride complaints as well. I didn't see a thread in the suspension section, where's the thread, I'd like to read that

 

[HSKR R/T]

I've seen none air ride complaints as well. I didn't see a thread in the suspension section, where's the thread, I'd like to read that

As I said, the number on owners without air ride comaolining are rare compared to those with air ride

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