New dodge vans...bad ass!

[The Great Oz]

We love ours.....so far its been a great truck. Time to dump it?

Mebbe. According to a local dealer service writer the engines are known to fail as early as 50,000 miles. He said they decided to handle pollution control the way they did with gas engines in the mid-70's, by rerouting pollutants back through the engine for a second burn. This destroys the turbos, gunks up injectors and valves and eventually the carbon build-up scars the cylinders.

If you like the truck buy a couple of crate motors as spares (they might be cheap!) but avoid looking up LCF problems or joining in the class action lawsuit.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Damn. Probably not going to get much on a trade either am I. : (

 

[SMRBAP]

I went and looked at one. They are front wheel drive - no go for the pto guys.

I'm holding out for the Transits - supposedly this summer...... we shall see.

 

[Chris A]

Yeah an ecoboost transit will probably be my next rig for sure. Smart of them to keep.them.rwd

 

[JS41035]

http://youtu.be/8ALSq7elZHo
Favorite part is when he reaches for the imaginary door handles. Keep in mind he does have a lot of metal in those knees. Still kinda funny to watch. Love ya dad


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[Lee Stockwell]

I laughed, but only if I block out being there.

 

[Jim Pemberton]

http://youtu.be/8ALSq7elZHo
Favorite part is when he reaches for the imaginary door handles. Keep in mind he does have a lot of metal in those knees. Still kinda funny to watch. Love ya dad


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Justin, one day before you know it, you will have arthritic or metallic knees....be gentle..your future awaits

 

[hogjowl]

Yeah, it'll hit you one day. I find it harder to get up in my van now , and it's the knees that are the problem.

 

[JS41035]

In my defense it was mom who took the video. And as far as posting embarrassing videos I think they have a few more on me than I do on them. I'm 32 and I don't quite hop in and out like I used to.


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[Lee Stockwell]

It was my idea for her to take pictures, to put that van's size in perspective.

Then she started having fun...

On my current van I can use the hitch as a step, and have handles on the doors.

Thought I was still 36.

 

[hogjowl]

Well, if it's any consolation, you're no uglier than you were in 2000.

 

[Mikey P]

My wife never got permission to tell me where you guys get those ugly ass $35 suits..

 

[Desk Jockey]

That was painful to watch, but I'm sure that day is not far away.

For now I still leap out of my pickup bed, faster and easier but yea can't be good on the knees.

 

[Lee Stockwell]

JCP likely. I've had that one since $35 was a lot of money.

 

[Mikey P]

Lmao...

 

[Loren Egland]

An Italian friend told me that the Italian's have a saying about Italian cars...

Italian cars are like Italian women.
They're beautiful when they're young.
But when they get old, you leave them on the side of the road.

Exceptions might be Sophia Loren, and my wife.

 

[NobleCarpetCleaners]

No more cargo vans for me, to much wasted space and areas hard to get to. In 2015 or 16 I'll be transferring all my sh.. over to a customized box van (roll up doors on side, swing in back) that sits on a truck chassis. Haven't narrowed down which truck chassis but it won't be a van. There's two beverage delivery body companies I've contacted that can customize without paying through the nose. Digging through a cargo van to get to sh.. is productivity I'll never get back.

 

[Lee Stockwell]

The Ram Promaster I was looking at above is available with sliding doors on both driver and passenger sides, and the widest opening back doors available. Most box trucks don't have that much easy access.

 

[Jim Martin]

that was priceless.......

 

[Becker]

Paced with one of the new dodge vans yesterday for about 100 miles on the freeway. Was nice looking. Looked like a high roof model, or maybe standard. I'd prefer one with a lower roof line than I saw.

 

[JS41035]

Bump

 

[Jeremy N]

Bump

You should be strung up for this!!

 

[Willy P]

I have the Dodge pentastar motor in mine. Lots of juice at 280 horse, no problems yet, but it's only got 10,000 miles on it.Highway mileage is excellent at 30 plus mpg, city, not so much.

 

[Danny Strickland]

I have the 305HP Pentastar in my Ram 1500 P/U. More than enough power towing stuff !!!

 

[Jimmy L]

Anything associated with the Fiat name I'd avoid......................my wife owns a Fiat.

And we know we'd never buy another one.

 

[hogjowl]

Did you even buy the first one?

 

[Jimmy L]

Oh my you are insulting!

You're just a Bruce Jenner wannabe in your own family................admit it!

 

[hogjowl]

Oh my you are insulting!

You're just a Bruce Jenner wannabe in your own family................admit it!

I have never worshipped my wife's smelly tennis shoes.

 

[Louis]

I just put a new tranny in my 97 dodge. The 5.9 is still going strong. These new vans scare me.

 

[Zee]

I just put a new tranny in my 97 dodge. The 5.9 is still going strong. These new vans scare me.

That..tranny... Was his name Bruce Jenner??? damn...