Quote: (04-15-2017 07:49 AM)realologist Wrote:
Edit: On a more serious note my first car was a 89 Dodge ram. Thing was a tank and lasted 20+ years.
Having owned a couple pickups with eight foot beds, including one with a bigass diesel, it's hard not having one now.
I'll be looking for a pre-96 Dodge 3500 diesel from the southwest in the next year or two. Those things last forever if you keep them out of corrosive environments.
I'll just have to decide if I want a standard transmission... not sure. My only vehicle now is a standard and I like it, but it kinda sucks having to drive a standard all the time. In the past I always had at least one automatic vehicle. Sometimes I just want to forget about the clutch and let the vehicle do the work.
Thing is, I had a 1995 diesel F250 until last year and it was an awesome vehicle mechanically, but the various computerized powertrain controls caused a ton of problems. Terrible, terrible system design there. If one wire goes, you can toast your $4500 automatic transmission in an hour as the computer starts freaking out, hard shifting, dropping into neutral under load and slamming back into gear, etc. So do I want to take a chance on having problems like that again, or just stick to a standard transmission? Probably the latter. I guess I'll only be able to get road head on the highway.