Dodge ram

[Monster5601]

Putting brand loyalty aside, there is a lot to like about RAM, they make a good truck just like Ford and GM. RAM does a couple things better, interior comfort and quiet (subjective I realize) but really, those silly skinny bucket seats GM throws in their trucks. When it came time to replace my 2003 Tahoe with 300,000 miles, I bought a new 2013 RAM Laramie. 60,000 on it all trouble free.

Then it came time to select a tow vehicle for a fifth wheel RV. I looked at Ford, GM, and RAM. I spend a year researching and reading before I selected. The number one goal was reliability period. No one wants to have troubles traveling with 15,000 pounds of RV. The RAM Cummins was the winner hands down. My 2015 Longhorn 3500 SRW Cummins has been perfect and trouble free.

The RAM 3500 in SRW offers higher payload numbers, and I'm not talking a few pounds, than Ford's 350 or GM's 3500. That is a clear winning offering for folks looking to tow the bigger RV's and wanting to stay out of the duallies.

 

[houstonscott]

Putting brand loyalty aside, there is a lot to like about RAM, they make a good truck just like Ford and GM. RAM does a couple things better, interior comfort and quiet (subjective I realize) but really, those silly skinny bucket seats GM throws in their trucks. When it came time to replace my 2003 Tahoe with 300,000 miles, I bought a new 2013 RAM Laramie. 60,000 on it all trouble free. Then it came time to select a tow vehicle for a fifth wheel RV. I looked at Ford, GM, and RAM. I spend a year researching and reading before I selected. The number one goal was reliability period. No one wants to have troubles traveling with 15,000 pounds of RV. The RAM Cummins was the winner hands down. My 2015 Longhorn 3500 SRW Cummins has been perfect and trouble free. The RAM 3500 in SRW offers higher payload numbers, and I'm not talking a few pounds, than Ford's 350 or GM's 3500. That is a clear winning offering for folks looking to tow the bigger RV's and wanting to stay out of the duallies.

Google rear main seals (RMS) in Cummins. You are doomed. My bet is yours is already wet or dripping.

 

[Code54]

Google rear main seals (RMS) in Cummins. You are doomed. My bet is yours is already wet or dripping.

That is a little extreme - I have a 2012 and it is perfect..... There were some issues with much older ones but the more recent ones have very little problems. There is a reason it is such a highly well regarded motor.

 

[coobie]

Google rear main seals (RMS) in Cummins. You are doomed. My bet is yours is already wet or dripping.

(DOOMED)So was the toyota tundra with rotting frame issues.LOL... I have owned toyota,ford,chevy and dodge trucks. All brands have had certain issues some more some less.

 

[tjkubota93]

Google rear main seals (RMS) in Cummins. You are doomed. My bet is yours is already wet or dripping.

That's odd I have not heard of an engine eating rear main seals. Especially a newer 1 piece type. Especially a cummins!

 

[Monster5601]

Google rear main seals (RMS) in Cummins. You are doomed. My bet is yours is already wet or dripping.

I did but I didn't see the reality of your predicted doom and gloom.

I saw a few posts Google dug up on the older 5.9L Cummins, a few on the current design which turned out to be from the manufacturing process.

Last time I was underneath to grease the front drive shaft, change oil and fuel filters, I saw no indications of an RMS leak.

Shame on you for attacking the most reliable and bulletproof diesel pickup truck engine available.

 

[houstonscott]

That is a little extreme - I have a 2012 and it is perfect..... There were some issues with much older ones but the more recent ones have very little problems. There is a reason it is such a highly well regarded motor.

my sons 2015 leaked at 40k miles. Junk engine. Not sure of your ability to search but there are hundreds.

 

[Code54]

EVERY motor manufacture has a bad one now and then, even Cummins, Kubota, Ford, whoever.
So one motor had a bad RMS so the entire line of millions is bad and "junk"- that is a stretch. Not sure that the production is at currently on the B series Cummins but it was around 500,000 a year from what I found. Even if 500 (you said 100's) were bad that is .1% in a year. Now take the fact they been producing the B series been in the Dodge since 1989, and the 6.7 since 2007 (10 years), your 100's of reports of this junk engine just dropped to basically nothing. Oh, and lets not forget all the mining eqpt, and other vehicles that use that same motors in far harsher conditions than a normal pickup and I would say Cummins does a pretty good job of building a solid motor.

As for my ability to search, no issues there - I was easily able to see 1000's upon 1000's of of positive posts, articles, and points with very little effort. Funny thing is I was not even trying to find all the good......

 

[houstonscott]

EVERY motor manufacture has a bad one now and then, even Cummins, Kubota, Ford, whoever. So one motor had a bad RMS so the entire line of millions is bad and "junk"- that is a stretch. Not sure that the production is at currently on the B series Cummins but it was around 500,000 a year from what I found. Even if 500 (you said 100's) were bad that is .1% in a year. Now take the fact they been producing the B series been in the Dodge since 1989, and the 6.7 since 2007 (10 years), your 100's of reports of this junk engine just dropped to basically nothing. Oh, and lets not forget all the mining eqpt, and other vehicles that use that same motors in far harsher conditions than a normal pickup and I would say Cummins does a pretty good job of building a solid motor. As for my ability to search, no issues there - I was easily able to see 1000's upon 1000's of of positive posts, articles, and points with very little effort. Funny thing is I was not even trying to find all the good......

Dealers have a protocol on dealing with RMS failures on the Cummins engines, wet, drips, how many replacements you get....

 

[coobie]

my sons 2015 leaked at 40k miles. Junk engine. Not sure of your ability to search but there are hundreds.

It costs a whopping $700 bucks at a dealer to replace the rear main seal on the 6.7 cummins.Pretty fair price IMHO.Had the 5.9 cummins in my 2004 dodge 2500 truck.One of the most dependable engine & trucks I ever owned.