If Your A Newbie, Post And Introduce Yourself
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From: Bel Air, MD
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Hi all. I joined this forum yesterday and made a couple of posts already, but I should probably introduce myself.
I have owned several trucks (2WD and 4X4) over the years, including a 2002 Dakota SLT Crew Cab 4x4, but after driving a '07 Jeep Wrangler X for the past two years, I just had to get back behind the wheel of a pick-up, and a full-size 4x4 at that.
So a few weeks ago I bought a slightly-used 2005 Ram 1500 SLT Quad Cab 4x4 (only 18,000 on the odo) with the 4.7L engine and so far I have been lovin' life. I haven't had a lot of time to do much, although I did install an aluminum billet fuel door a couple of days ago, and I have an Airaid CAI arriving via UPS tomorrow. Hopefully soon I will be installing a decent exhaust system (maybe a cat-back, but maybe just a muffler change with a Flowmaster 40 series-depends on both finances AND the wife!) and then later on, who knows?
Here's a pic (pre-fuel door):
I have owned several trucks (2WD and 4X4) over the years, including a 2002 Dakota SLT Crew Cab 4x4, but after driving a '07 Jeep Wrangler X for the past two years, I just had to get back behind the wheel of a pick-up, and a full-size 4x4 at that.
So a few weeks ago I bought a slightly-used 2005 Ram 1500 SLT Quad Cab 4x4 (only 18,000 on the odo) with the 4.7L engine and so far I have been lovin' life. I haven't had a lot of time to do much, although I did install an aluminum billet fuel door a couple of days ago, and I have an Airaid CAI arriving via UPS tomorrow. Hopefully soon I will be installing a decent exhaust system (maybe a cat-back, but maybe just a muffler change with a Flowmaster 40 series-depends on both finances AND the wife!) and then later on, who knows?
Here's a pic (pre-fuel door):
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RE: If Your A Newbie, Post And Int
Signed up a little while ago, and I forgot to say hello. Hello! Great site, very knowledgeable people here, I visit daily/often and read almost everything, although I post little, so you'll probably never see my post count rise significantly, and I'll be listed as a back seat driver for the rest of my life.
I've had an F-250, a few Chevy pickups, even started off with my first truck, a little Nissan 4x4 back in the mid eighties, something I just used to put the dirt bikes in and got dirty all of the time.
When I see a hill, even if it's an unfinished highway with mounds of dirt, my family knows to hold on because we're going for a ride. (Disclaimer: Not recommended for the chance of being arrested or damaging truck is greatly increased while attempting this act.) At first, my kids were nervous about my off road antics, but now they look for construction sites and dare me to get "Cha-Ching" dirty. Cha-Ching is the name my wife calls my truck because she says everytime she see's the reciepts of something I've bought for my truck, the words "Cha-CHing" ring through her head.
Most of my trucks were never clean, always caked with a layer or two of the mystery muck you can only find in Bellplains State Park in the middle of the Pinelands of New Jersey.
This truck...I wash it if even one mosquito decides to commit suicide on my front bumper, or a speck of dust appears on the hood, and yet, i'll turf my buddies back yard in an instant.
I plan on CAI, Dual in Dual out exhaust, maybe one of those Diablogadgets as soon as I find out what the hell it does, and if it will assist in Mpg, and if I can arrange it, I plan on being buried in my truck. I love the thing, so much, that my wife thinks I love it way too much, even though she bought it for me, picked it out and loves it just as much.
Dodge Ram is definately the nicest rig on the road. My wife, she could have bought any truck she wanted for her company, but she chose a Ram. Lucky me!
So...Hello...and now I will fly back under the radar, crawl back into my fox hole and read all of your post. Hey...how about Post Read countersfor us quiet people, so we can move up in driving status? lol.
Great site, keep up the good work. Happy to have found this place.
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RE: If Your A Newbie, Post And Int
Hey All,
First post to say Hi
My truck is a 2006 Ram 2500 Cummings Lone Star Edition.
See my avatar also
All White in color. Door and Tailgate handles along with Mirrors and Cowling painted to match.
3 inch Puck Kit
Billet Grill
Nerf Bars / Front and Rear Bumpers all Powder Coated to match
Bug Shield painted to match
Tinted Windows
Alloy Ion #148 17inch rims with BF Goodrich tires
Ranch Hand Front Bumper in Powder Coat White
And of course a Stainless Steel 4inch tip... Got to have one of them...
I've had it since November 2006
Later
Ted
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First post to say Hi
My truck is a 2006 Ram 2500 Cummings Lone Star Edition.
See my avatar also
All White in color. Door and Tailgate handles along with Mirrors and Cowling painted to match.
3 inch Puck Kit
Billet Grill
Nerf Bars / Front and Rear Bumpers all Powder Coated to match
Bug Shield painted to match
Tinted Windows
Alloy Ion #148 17inch rims with BF Goodrich tires
Ranch Hand Front Bumper in Powder Coat White
And of course a Stainless Steel 4inch tip... Got to have one of them...
I've had it since November 2006
Later
Ted
[IMG]local://upfiles/66663/F503157399EB4656A527A342EFFE7592.jpg[/IMG]
