ritterjd wrote: Well, the wife gave me the go ahead to buy this truck if I wanted, so I took it for a test ride.
The truck had tons of power and acceleration, much more than my 6.0L PSD, but the ride was awful. It may have been tire related but you couldn't tell by looking. It ran smoothly at highway speeds but on local roads, I couldn't live with it, at least without a trailer behind.
As much as I hated to, I had to turn it down. I am by no means a Ford fanatic but had to tell the salesperson that it road like a farm truck and nothing like my Ford.
Just remember you were test driving a 1 ton Dodge and comparing its ride to a 3/4 Ford. There should be a big difference. Go buy a Cadillac if you want a nice ride. JMO.
ritterjd wrote: Well, the wife gave me the go ahead to buy this truck if I wanted, so I took it for a test ride.
ritterjd wrote:
Your wife must be the breadwinner, it appears. No offense but that is a bit sad, especially in our world of RVing. Not very manly.
Guess we can all tell who wears the pants in your family! It must be emasculating to have to ask your wife's permission to make a purchase. If I tried that with my husband we would be divorced.
I think you might be taking his words a bit too literally; I don't think there's much unusual about a married man & woman making a team decision about a major financial purchase.
Having said that, I'm sure there are men who actually "ask permission," just as I'm sure there are women who are quite happy to let their man make all the decisions so they can play the meek little sidekick who never has to have an opinion on anything.
Different strokes for different folks; 30 years ago Eurythmics even wrote a song about it (Sweet Dreams Are Made of This)
On topic (LOL) I further the motion of air pressure being a possible culprit; not difficult to imagine someone pumping 80lb into the tires in error because that's what it said on the sidewall.
ritterjd wrote: Well, the wife gave me the go ahead to buy this truck if I wanted, so I took it for a test ride.
ritterjd wrote:
Your wife must be the breadwinner, it appears. No offense but that is a bit sad, especially in our world of RVing. Not very manly.
Guess we can all tell who wears the pants in your family! It must be emasculating to have to ask your wife's permission to make a purchase. If I tried that with my husband we would be divorced.
I think you might be taking his words a bit too literally; I don't think there's much unusual about a married man & woman making a team decision about a major financial purchase.
Having said that, I'm sure there are men who actually "ask permission," just as I'm sure there are women who are quite happy to let their man make all the decisions so they can play the meek little sidekick who never has to have an opinion on anything.
Different strokes for different folks; 30 years ago Eurythmics even wrote a song about it (Sweet Dreams Are Made of This)
On topic (LOL) I further the motion of air pressure being a possible culprit; not difficult to imagine someone pumping 80lb into the tires in error because that's what it said on the sidewall.
Well bmanning not sure if you're referring to me but I'm about as far from meek as a person can get. I just don't require my husband to come to me, hat in hand, asking for money.
Wasn't referring to you; I don't know you. I have known many sharp, intelligent, financially accomplished women so it wouldn't surprise me at all if you're one too.
Just saying that it goes both ways...there are men who don't like to need to think for themselves, and there are women who don't like to need to think for themselves.
For every man who asks permission, there's a woman who fits the description I gave. Just my opinion, from both personal experience and observation.
As you said, just makin' conversation
And Caroline we may have set a new bar for getting off-topic; we've turned a thread about a 2009 Dodge riding rough into a discussion on marital dynamics, LOL!!
ritterjd wrote: Well, the wife gave me the go ahead to buy this truck if I wanted, so I took it for a test ride.
ritterjd wrote:
Your wife must be the breadwinner, it appears. No offense but that is a bit sad, especially in our world of RVing. Not very manly.
Guess we can all tell who wears the pants in your family! It must be emasculating to have to ask your wife's permission to make a purchase. If I tried that with my husband we would be divorced.
I think you might be taking his words a bit too literally; I don't think there's much unusual about a married man & woman making a team decision about a major financial purchase.
Having said that, I'm sure there are men who actually "ask permission," just as I'm sure there are women who are quite happy to let their man make all the decisions so they can play the meek little sidekick who never has to have an opinion on anything.
Different strokes for different folks; 30 years ago Eurythmics even wrote a song about it (Sweet Dreams Are Made of This)
On topic (LOL) I further the motion of air pressure being a possible culprit; not difficult to imagine someone pumping 80lb into the tires in error because that's what it said on the sidewall.
Well bmanning not sure if you're referring to me but I'm about as far from meek as a person can get. I just don't require my husband to come to me, hat in hand, asking for money.
Wasn't referring to you; I don't know you. I have known many sharp, intelligent, financially accomplished women so it wouldn't surprise me at all if you're one too.
Just saying that it goes both ways...there are men who don't like to need to think for themselves, and there are women who don't like to need to think for themselves.
For every man who asks permission, there's a woman who fits the description I gave. Just my opinion, from both personal experience and observation.
As you said, just makin' conversation
And Caroline we may have set a new bar for getting off-topic; we've turned a thread about a 2009 Dodge riding rough into a discussion on marital dynamics, LOL!!
bmanning, you sound like a smart, thoughtful man. I guess we/I did get a bit off topic there. :-) Didn't mean to. It's just that I have a sister whose husband married her for her money and used her, so I'm always on the alert to (maybe) men who make less than their wives and (maybe) take advantage of them. Just one of the weird things.
But bmanning, I enjoy your posts. You're a good guy, it seems.
Thanks, Caroline. Sorry to hear about your sister; unfortunately there are plenty of "users" out there for sure. I hope she landed on her feet and is happy now without some excuse for a man using her instead of making something out of himself...guys like that give us all a bad name.
As a divorcee myself, I'm come to feel this way about marriage: with the right person, there's nothing better, with the wrong person, there's nothing worse!
Welcome to the forum There is a ton of great information shared here, and it can be fun to swerve off topic now-and-then as we did. I think the story of the rough-riding 09 Dodge had pretty much run it's course anyhow, LOL, and was perhaps on it's way to developing into a Dodge vs. GM thingy...we committed an act of public service: we saved a thread from becoming brand-war fodder and went off-topic in a much more interesting direction!
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My 2011 rides very smooth unloaded. 80 in the front and 55 in the rear and the tread wear is great. I think the tires were over inflated. A lot of people think you need 80 in the rear on a dually and you will wear the centers out of the tires.
The GM's ride better because of the independent front end vs solid for Ford and RAM. Gm is much weaker.
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ritterjd wrote: Well, the wife gave me the go ahead to buy this truck if I wanted, so I took it for a test ride.
ritterjd wrote:
Your wife must be the breadwinner, it appears. No offense but that is a bit sad, especially in our world of RVing. Not very manly.
Guess we can all tell who wears the pants in your family! It must be emasculating to have to ask your wife's permission to make a purchase. If I tried that with my husband we would be divorced.
I think you might be taking his words a bit too literally; I don't think there's much unusual about a married man & woman making a team decision about a major financial purchase.
Having said that, I'm sure there are men who actually "ask permission," just as I'm sure there are women who are quite happy to let their man make all the decisions so they can play the meek little sidekick who never has to have an opinion on anything.
Different strokes for different folks; 30 years ago Eurythmics even wrote a song about it (Sweet Dreams Are Made of This)
On topic (LOL) I further the motion of air pressure being a possible culprit; not difficult to imagine someone pumping 80lb into the tires in error because that's what it said on the sidewall.
Well bmanning not sure if you're referring to me but I'm about as far from meek as a person can get. I just don't require my husband to come to me, hat in hand, asking for money.
Wasn't referring to you; I don't know you. I have known many sharp, intelligent, financially accomplished women so it wouldn't surprise me at all if you're one too.
Just saying that it goes both ways...there are men who don't like to need to think for themselves, and there are women who don't like to need to think for themselves.
For every man who asks permission, there's a woman who fits the description I gave. Just my opinion, from both personal experience and observation.
As you said, just makin' conversation
And Caroline we may have set a new bar for getting off-topic; we've turned a thread about a 2009 Dodge riding rough into a discussion on marital dynamics, LOL!!
bmanning, you sound like a smart, thoughtful man. I guess we/I did get a bit off topic there. :-) Didn't mean to. It's just that I have a sister whose husband married her for her money and used her, so I'm always on the alert to (maybe) men who make less than their wives and (maybe) take advantage of them. Just one of the weird things.
But bmanning, I enjoy your posts. You're a good guy, it seems.
Thanks, Caroline. Sorry to hear about your sister; unfortunately there are plenty of "users" out there for sure. I hope she landed on her feet and is happy now without some excuse for a man using her instead of making something out of himself...guys like that give us all a bad name.
As a divorcee myself, I'm come to feel this way about marriage: with the right person, there's nothing better, with the wrong person, there's nothing worse!
Welcome to the forum There is a ton of great information shared here, and it can be fun to swerve off topic now-and-then as we did. I think the story of the rough-riding 09 Dodge had pretty much run it's course anyhow, LOL, and was perhaps on it's way to developing into a Dodge vs. GM thingy...we committed an act of public service: we saved a thread from becoming brand-war fodder and went off-topic in a much more interesting direction!
bmanning, you are great. I was thinking, though. It doesn't say that jdritter is a man, does it? They might be a nice lesbian couple. There's a couple that are lesbians across the street and they call each other wife. So I might have been unfairly man bashing!
LOL Brilliant!
As they used to say on Seinfeld, "Not that there's anything wrong with that..."
Very cool 'lady couple' in my old neighborhood; they have a TT, ride motorcycles, drive pickups, rescue shelter dogs and are just all-around good people. They aren't really that funny though...odd...
most non-straight people are hysterical.
I thought for sure we'd be hearing back from jdritter; he owes us an update as to what truck he ends up with...he either is busier than we were today or he wants no part of the Oprah-esque tangent we took off on LOL
Oh yeah, on topic: I really do hope the OP goes back & checks the tire pressures and perhaps takes another test drive. 15-20psi too much air in the rear tires of an unloaded DRW truck will murder the ride characteristics. I've ridden in a friends 09 Ram DRW and I thought the ride was very well-damped and impressive for a massive unloaded truck.
ritterjd wrote: Well, the wife gave me the go ahead to buy this truck if I wanted, so I took it for a test ride.
ritterjd wrote:
Your wife must be the breadwinner, it appears. No offense but that is a bit sad, especially in our world of RVing. Not very manly.
Guess we can all tell who wears the pants in your family! It must be emasculating to have to ask your wife's permission to make a purchase. If I tried that with my husband we would be divorced.
I think you might be taking his words a bit too literally; I don't think there's much unusual about a married man & woman making a team decision about a major financial purchase.
Having said that, I'm sure there are men who actually "ask permission," just as I'm sure there are women who are quite happy to let their man make all the decisions so they can play the meek little sidekick who never has to have an opinion on anything.
Different strokes for different folks; 30 years ago Eurythmics even wrote a song about it (Sweet Dreams Are Made of This)
On topic (LOL) I further the motion of air pressure being a possible culprit; not difficult to imagine someone pumping 80lb into the tires in error because that's what it said on the sidewall.
Well bmanning not sure if you're referring to me but I'm about as far from meek as a person can get. I just don't require my husband to come to me, hat in hand, asking for money.
Wasn't referring to you; I don't know you. I have known many sharp, intelligent, financially accomplished women so it wouldn't surprise me at all if you're one too.
Just saying that it goes both ways...there are men who don't like to need to think for themselves, and there are women who don't like to need to think for themselves.
For every man who asks permission, there's a woman who fits the description I gave. Just my opinion, from both personal experience and observation.
As you said, just makin' conversation
And Caroline we may have set a new bar for getting off-topic; we've turned a thread about a 2009 Dodge riding rough into a discussion on marital dynamics, LOL!!
bmanning, you sound like a smart, thoughtful man. I guess we/I did get a bit off topic there. :-) Didn't mean to. It's just that I have a sister whose husband married her for her money and used her, so I'm always on the alert to (maybe) men who make less than their wives and (maybe) take advantage of them. Just one of the weird things.
But bmanning, I enjoy your posts. You're a good guy, it seems.
Thanks, Caroline. Sorry to hear about your sister; unfortunately there are plenty of "users" out there for sure. I hope she landed on her feet and is happy now without some excuse for a man using her instead of making something out of himself...guys like that give us all a bad name.
As a divorcee myself, I'm come to feel this way about marriage: with the right person, there's nothing better, with the wrong person, there's nothing worse!
Welcome to the forum There is a ton of great information shared here, and it can be fun to swerve off topic now-and-then as we did. I think the story of the rough-riding 09 Dodge had pretty much run it's course anyhow, LOL, and was perhaps on it's way to developing into a Dodge vs. GM thingy...we committed an act of public service: we saved a thread from becoming brand-war fodder and went off-topic in a much more interesting direction!
bmanning, you are great. I was thinking, though. It doesn't say that jdritter is a man, does it? They might be a nice lesbian couple. There's a couple that are lesbians across the street and they call each other wife. So I might have been unfairly man bashing!
LOL Brilliant!
As they used to say on Seinfeld, "Not that there's anything wrong with that..."
Very cool 'lady couple' in my old neighborhood; they have a TT, ride motorcycles, drive pickups, rescue shelter dogs and are just all-around good people. They aren't really that funny though...odd...
most non-straight people are hysterical.
I thought for sure we'd be hearing back from jdritter; he owes us an update as to what truck he ends up with...he either is busier than we were today or he wants no part of the Oprah-esque tangent we took off on LOL
Oh yeah, on topic: I really do hope the OP goes back & checks the tire pressures and perhaps takes another test drive. 15-20psi too much air in the rear tires of an unloaded DRW truck will murder the ride characteristics. I've ridden in a friends 09 Ram DRW and I thought the ride was very well-damped and impressive for a massive unloaded truck.
Well, I'm glad that I didn't follow this thread very closely. I can't believe what some people think. Just becasue I love my wife and respect her opinion, shouldn't put my 'manhood' in question. We make all of our decisions together.
Anyway, we did not go back and look at the Dodge. I might have had the dealer offered to take a look at it but instead, they just said that Dodge trucks don't ride as well as Fords. Surporised to hear this from a Dodge dealer but I took it more as a sign that they really didn't care about business or customers.
We did replace the 04 F-250 though, with a 06 F-350 6.0l DRW King Ranch with very low miles.
John Ritter
Vandalia, Ohio
2012 Canyon Trail Aztec 33FRET
2006 Ford F350 DRW King Ranch 6.0L Powerstroke Diesel
I'm a huge Dodge Ram fan, i love my truck.
But the biggest shortcoming is definitely the ride quality.
I've got a full Carli Suspension setup, and it rides comparably to a Ford or Chevy now. Thuren Fabrication also makes great setups for Dodges. Each uses custom springs rates and shock valving - nothing is off-the-shelf.
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