Yes Dodge make great looking truck and that 07 is some nice digs there. I just gave up on total lack of MoPar quality. My Dak is finally paid off so I'm looking at Fords since I can't stand Government Motors ideologies and hate the though of a foreign rig in my driveway. Ford has been getting extremely high marks and they are all that’s left to buy that is American without baggage.

 

Haven’t really looked into all the options and packages yet but a guy next to our business has a 2011 F-150 and it is awesome. He had it for about six months and loves it. I believe he has a 5.4L V8. Not real sure about any other elements but it appears to be loaded. I will look at left-over 11s in the fall. Shame the Rams do look also awesome but I'm skittish to that ever again.

 

you could head over to the Ram section and just ask the question...I'm curious too if the Rams enjoy the same issues or different ones....I'm really sorry yours gives you such a time. Knock on wood, I've only had to replace a u-joint so far. Everything else is holding up nicely for a truck with 70k on it.

 

X2 I have 54k on mine and the only thing i had to replace outside of the usuals is a thermostat. I just want MORE POWER.

 

Beware the 6 speed Mustangs - they are having widespread and so far, un-acknowledged (by Ford) manual transmission failures, ranging from hard shifts to grinding, to outright gear failure. The suspects are soft gears, soft synchros, and poor manufacturing practices from China (shocking), where Getrag has the units assembled.

http://jalopnik.com/5792482/faulty-c...w-ford-mustang

And I know everyone has their right to spend money as they wish, but I just made the LAST PAYMENT on my truck - and I am so pumped. 67,000 almost trouble-free miles (wheel bearing, small oil leak, shocks), and now the truck gets to pay me back.

New rides are fun, but the feeling wears off in a few weeks, and you're saddled with a new payment! I know too many people who rationalize themselves into 60 and 72 month loans with "it's only $35 more a month!" ... until 2017!!!!!!!! And don't get me started on leasing. But to each their own - I for one am going to enjoy the extra $400 a month in my budget.

 

I leased once. and the reason I did was to get out of being upside down. I rolled over a very large balance from a previous vehicle that i owed way more that it was worth into a three year lease payment, BUT I came out of the lease with mo more negative equity. I then took that leased vehicle and traded it in on the dak. I will never lease again though, but for my situation at the time it worked wonderfully in my favor.

 

I think a lease is great if you are someone who has to have a new car all the time, and you really cant afford the type of car you are leasing. As long as the lease is open ended, you dont really have to worry about mileage. When you are done, you just trade the car in at the dealer and the lease company never sees the mileage. Worse case senario, you have to make up a couple grand in depreciated value, but way better than paying the fee for the mileage.

 

it's dang near impossible to get a lease with no mileage restrictions, at least around here. I had 15k max per year which is really good, most are 12k max.

 

There are always mileage restrictions, but when your open-ended lease is up and you get a buy-out value of the vehical. You take the vehical to your dealer, trade it in on a new car/lease, and they pay for the value of the vehical. The mileage is irrelevant, as the lease company will never see the odo reading. Two things can happen though:
1. The trade in value the dealer offers you is more than what the buy-out is. Its a win-win. You went over on your mileage, and you made money on the deal.
2. The trade in value the dealer offers is less than the buy-out value, and you either have to pay a couple grand or roll the negative value in to the new vehical. Most of the time though even if you have to pay, this will be alot cheaper than paying the mileage pentalty.