So, you may or may not know that I've had a 2005 3/4 ton Dodge diesel for several years. Bought it in January of 06, it was a fleet return with just under 9,000 miles on it. I've loved it since day one.
Recently I noticed a slight vibration at highway speeds, but attributed it to the gnarly winter tires I had on it (thanks, Black Knight!). When I switched to my summer wheels/tires the other day the vibration remained so I took a look and found the rear u-joint on the rear driveshaft was going out. I bought a pair and replaced them. When I went to make a note in my records for the truck it dawned on me that this was the first thing on the truck that has actually failed/worn out. It now has just over 147,000 miles on it, and a fair amount of that has been towing various size trailers, including my 18,000 pound 5th wheel. Everything I've had to do to it so far has just been regular fluid/filter maintenance, brake pads, etc. The last oil analysis indicated nothing abnormal and I recently had to add the first quart of oil between changes - I change it about every 15,000 miles, running a 2 micron bypass filter.
It drives great, smooth, quiet, never been stuck in the snow and gets better than 20mpg on the highway. It's been rear ended twice, once by a pickup and once by a car. The pickup was moderately damaged and the car lost a radiator and was undrivable. Neither resulted in even a scratch to my truck (they both hit the towing hitch), the only ding in the bumper is from when I backed it into the John Deere at HPR (oops)
I'm not saying that Dodge is the best and all else suck or anything like that, just saying that this one has certainly treated me right and I plan to buy another when the time comes. Just thought I'd share my experience.
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Originally Posted by OUTLAWD
