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Old 10-01-2012, 07:15 PM
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Question Dragging around a Family

Hey guys so I have a 99 quad cab. I have a love/hate relationship with it. I'm 6'4" and while me, my wife and my daughter (who is almost 1 and a half) can fit in the truck, but it feels a little cramped sometimes. I'm just wondering, has anybody else loaded up all 6 spots and been able do drive decently comfortably? There's only the three of us and we are fine for now but I'm wondering how much older or bigger are family is going to get before I'm really going to need to move up to something with more cabin space?
 
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I've had 7 in my truck, with all full grown adults in the front, and still had plenty of room.
 
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Old 10-01-2012, 07:47 PM
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I had 6 adults in my extended cab. My sister in law was 9 months pregnant too! Everyone actually was complementing me on the room the truck had. Lol
 
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Mine is the exact opposite, I've had me, my dad and mom my in there fairly often and my mom complains about knee room. I have also had me, my mom, my niece (who was in a bucket at the time) and my sister in it along with a ton of stuff. My sister was fine, but the bucket was a tight fit.

However, I have also had a couple of my friends ride with me, one is over 6ft, but the others like 5'2....guess who got the back seat?
At least he had 4in of knee room.
 
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Thanks for the help guys! I think the family can manage to all fit in here for the forseeable future. I'm the only tall one. I'm thinking of keeping my half ton for a few years, then when the misses and I want to get a big fifth wheel getting a three-quarter ton, but staying 2nd gen ram. That way, any fancy exterior mods I do (I already have smoked tails) I can just swap over to the new truck genius, right? haha
 
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Trouble is going to be finding a decently clean 2nd gen in a few years.
It is already hard around here...
 
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Yea no kidding. They crop up from time to time around here. I'm hoping to get a V10, just to show up my uncle's Ford V10 haha.
 
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Yea no kidding. They crop up from time to time around here. I'm hoping to get a V10, just to show up my uncle's Ford V10 haha.
I saw a spotless Ram V10 for sale on Craigslist, but he wanted like $8k for the damn thing, another 2 or 3 and you can get a diesel....
 
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I hate having anyone in the back seat behind me that is taller than 4ft. I like the driver seat all the way back and if I have to move up I feel WAY to close to the wheel.
 
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Stewie- Yea I hear ya. Around here everything sells for kbb retail and then some and the lots hate to haggle. I paid 7k for mine last september... and it had 172,000 miles

Derick- I know what you mean. I finally moved my daughter's car seat to the middle in the back because she kept crying everytime I went all the way back because she had no leg room. I've sat behind my wife while she's driving before and it's ok for short periods of time (she's 5'4").
 



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