HeavyDuty Badge
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From: New England
RE: HeavyDuty Badge
ORIGINAL: Bones1274
This raises the question, when Dodge puts the diesel in the 1500 in 2010, will they call it heavy duty?
This raises the question, when Dodge puts the diesel in the 1500 in 2010, will they call it heavy duty?
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From: Wyoming
RE: HeavyDuty Badge
Dude, just drop the Hemi/MC issue k? Some of us don't need to pull big *** trailers everyday, or haul full loads of bricks up 80% inclines. Diesel is far too expenseive when WE DON'T NEED IT!
A Hemi in a MC is no sloutch on the road, not by a long shot, but it's still a HD truck for the few times we may need the capacity. What you advocate is like buying a 3000sf house for 1 person in a wheelchair, a big waste!
BigBlueGa, I'd get an HD badge too if it weren't for all the people already saying "why'd you only get a 1500" and then having to prove to them that it's really a 2500 (usually by having them crawl under the front to see the solid axel). With that badge, I know twice as many people would try to "bust" me on having a 1500 HD that doesn't exist. Wouldn't be worth the hassle
Oh, but our springs and leafs are a "little" softer, so I guess it's not really an HD anyway huh?
A Hemi in a MC is no sloutch on the road, not by a long shot, but it's still a HD truck for the few times we may need the capacity. What you advocate is like buying a 3000sf house for 1 person in a wheelchair, a big waste!
BigBlueGa, I'd get an HD badge too if it weren't for all the people already saying "why'd you only get a 1500" and then having to prove to them that it's really a 2500 (usually by having them crawl under the front to see the solid axel). With that badge, I know twice as many people would try to "bust" me on having a 1500 HD that doesn't exist. Wouldn't be worth the hassle
Oh, but our springs and leafs are a "little" softer, so I guess it's not really an HD anyway huh?
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From: San Diego
RE: HeavyDuty Badge
ORIGINAL: michaelahess
Dude, just drop the Hemi/MC issue k? Some of us don't need to pull big *** trailers everyday, or haul full loads of bricks up 80% inclines. Diesel is far too expenseive when WE DON'T NEED IT!
A Hemi in a MC is no sloutch on the road, not by a long shot, but it's still a HD truck for the few times we may need the capacity. What you advocate is like buying a 3000sf house for 1 person in a wheelchair, a big waste!
BigBlueGa, I'd get an HD badge too if it weren't for all the people already saying "why'd you only get a 1500" and then having to prove to them that it's really a 2500 (usually by having them crawl under the front to see the solid axel). With that badge, I know twice as many people would try to "bust" me on having a 1500 HD that doesn't exist. Wouldn't be worth the hassle
Oh, but our springs and leafs are a "little" softer, so I guess it's not really an HD anyway huh?
Dude, just drop the Hemi/MC issue k? Some of us don't need to pull big *** trailers everyday, or haul full loads of bricks up 80% inclines. Diesel is far too expenseive when WE DON'T NEED IT!
A Hemi in a MC is no sloutch on the road, not by a long shot, but it's still a HD truck for the few times we may need the capacity. What you advocate is like buying a 3000sf house for 1 person in a wheelchair, a big waste!
BigBlueGa, I'd get an HD badge too if it weren't for all the people already saying "why'd you only get a 1500" and then having to prove to them that it's really a 2500 (usually by having them crawl under the front to see the solid axel). With that badge, I know twice as many people would try to "bust" me on having a 1500 HD that doesn't exist. Wouldn't be worth the hassle
Oh, but our springs and leafs are a "little" softer, so I guess it's not really an HD anyway huh?
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RE: HeavyDuty Badge
dude?? you live calif?
Anyways I just don't know anyone that would buy a 2500 and up and pass on a cummnis. Also you said its not like your hauling bricks everywhere, oh but you are the 1500 mc weighs 1000-1300 pounds more than the non mc version, so its basically like taking a 1500 hemi and dumping a half ton of bricks in the bed and driving it around. Theres gonna be a difference.
Anyways I just don't know anyone that would buy a 2500 and up and pass on a cummnis. Also you said its not like your hauling bricks everywhere, oh but you are the 1500 mc weighs 1000-1300 pounds more than the non mc version, so its basically like taking a 1500 hemi and dumping a half ton of bricks in the bed and driving it around. Theres gonna be a difference.
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From: Monroe, Ga
RE: HeavyDuty Badge
Ok, it seems that me having a 3/4 ton truck w/a gas motor is not well liked. To each his own. Hey, this is the truck I wanted, I only tow a trailer about 6 times a year and the biggest load is only around 3500lbs. I only drive about 20miles a day, so why spend the extra money on something I don't need. I looked at a diesel, but for the extra cost, it wasn't worth it to me.
I've known from day one I had a 3/4 to truck, but I thought it would be fun to put the HD badge on it because it was bigger than any 1500 on the road.
I've known from day one I had a 3/4 to truck, but I thought it would be fun to put the HD badge on it because it was bigger than any 1500 on the road.
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RE: HeavyDuty Badge
ORIGINAL: michaelahess
Yeah, but I still get better milage than your diesel
Yeah, but I still get better milage than your diesel
ORIGINAL: michaelahess
My MC pulls an almost 8k pound fiber splice trailer while still getting 13-14mpg, better on flat roads, that doesn't seem too bad to me,
My MC pulls an almost 8k pound fiber splice trailer while still getting 13-14mpg, better on flat roads, that doesn't seem too bad to me,
bigblue nothing wrong with you putting an HD badge on, the diff from the 1500-2500 mc is small, payload diff is only a few hundered pounds... the people that know trucks will know its a 2500 frame, so who cares if a car person thinks its off.. thats the person you want to laugh at that, not the other way around like when 2wd trucks make theirs out to look like off road trucks, yeah a car person may think its cool, but the truck guys will just laugh... unless theyve got a 2wd
. also i was only wondering why you didnt go with the cummins on that size trucklook around theres a ton of websites that sells emblems etc, may look for a cool non oem one..
