Eh..if it’s under warranty - who gives a ****. I don’t.

 

Those 5.4l's were garbage for power. I have friends that are ford guys and don't like them. The ecoboost is well, kind of a joke just like the 5.4. Even though all around are better still not up to the hype. My best friend bought a 2007 chevy 1500 classic 4dr lt3 5.3l z71 4spd auto with 3.73's in it last summer. Its a really nice truck and at the time he only had an exhaust on it. He raced an new ecoboost uphill. Up to 55mph the ecoboost had him by a truck length, by 90mph he had 2 truck lengths. On flat ground he won by 3 and were even at 55mph.

 

I read online about a guy that had his replaced under warranty for throwing a rod, and then the replacement did the same within a month or so.

 

Damn that’s sad. That’s all we are ordering now is new Fords (was dodge the last few years). But I think ours are coming with the 6.4L ?

I forget. Need to look bakc on the fleet list.

 

Fords towing v8 is a 6.2l very similar to GM's 6.2 just, how do I put this, a fail at vvt. Look at the dyno charts on hypertech programmers website. The thing looks like a heartbeat monitor. I'd take a gm 6.0 or ram 5.7 just from experience. The new 6.4l hemi truck motor drives with lots of low end compared to the 5.7 though.

 

I have a 2012 5.7 hemi crew can and it's slow on the low end. Tho only 11k miles on it..

I think that's why I liked my Titan power through the whole RPM range.

 

I've heard (not sure if it's true) that they really castrate the new trucks to protect their warranty interests so people are not doing burnout left and right and screwing things up. I think a good tuner would solve it and really open things up.

 

$45000 is about $500/mo for 6 yrs, $6 grand a year. Between Oct '12 and Oct '13 I spent $5,500 on my '01 R/T, but now the 'payments' are done for a while. Even if the motor takes a crapper, it's still less than a year of more of new D payments.

It 100% boils down to if you still enjoy driving/owning the older Durango. If you see the Durango in your garage when you're there to maybe take out the garbage and your first reaction is a happy thought, keep it.

 

Yeah the new 6.4 could still do a good burnout even in a 3500, its just very easy to tell its held back by the programming.

 

Uhh.. your math is off.

6yr = 72 months. $45,000 / 72 month = $625 a month. And that’s at 0%.. good luck with that. Very very few people qualify for 0%.

Heck, mine is at 1.9% and I think that equals a total of $1,200 in interest..