RamDodgeSam

I've been driving my 93' 12 valve for almost a year now as a work truck and I love it. Buy I'm not going to be taking the family on any road trips with it It's a work truck. Period.

My friend has his 2004 4x4 ST full size bed, quad cab that he's been talking about selling for a month now. I'm pretty hooked on the idea of buying it. He want's $19,500 for it. He stuck it on ebay and it got a bid for that but he canceled the listing early to sell it locally instead.

He's done a lot of work to it. I've test driven it and it is a rocket ship. He hasn't towed much at all with it except on vacation, and he drives it fairly conservatively. I haven't talked extensively about what gauges he runs but he ran them all for a long time before taking them off. So he knows when the truck is doing and EGT and all that. He took the gauge pod down because highschool kids were always trying to race him at stop lights.

I trust him because we're friends and it seems like a special case. I don't think I'd be to excited buying a truck like this from someone I didn't know.

What do yall think?

Here are the specs, basically taken out of the ebay listing.


Hwy mileage is around 28-29 miles get in the upper 700 horses power
paint is in perfect condition tires are over 80% tread left with full size spare
AM/FM/Satellite (with Lifetime Subscription) 6 CD changer
Headlight’s upgraded to Projection Lap’s
Full Frontend Replacement W/KC Lights

Full Rear end replacement
Full Headache Rack
Lifted 2’ Front Leveling coils
Rancho Shocks
Rear Air bags For Load capacity
Oversize 315/75/17R BFG …………….. Full Dark Window Tint
2014 Dodge 2500 Rims with Less than 2,000 Miles
Complete New AC all the way thru cab
Large 6” Exhaust from Turbo
Oversized Turbo Replacement and Wastegate (HTT64)
Cam Installed at 90,000 Miles
Performance Head port and polish 90,000 Miles
Fuel System Upgraded to aftermarket high performance
High performance Injectors DON M 90HP …………………………. S06 Smarty Tuner
High performance full billet Goerand Auto Transmission with Custom billet Flex Plate

roughstock

sounds like good truck for the money, that's a lot of money he put in to extras, as long as you really trust your friend, that its not going to need a rebuild shortly after you buy it. I feel its hard to drive conservatively with those mods. Im just saying, to check it out and make sure its not going to turn into a big turd and ruin a friendship. Seen it happen.

Danderson

28-29 mpg sounds unrealistic especially with 315's and 700 hp.

RamDodgeSam

I test drove the other day. Around town and to drive to work, he has it on the lowest power setting and at 65mph I saw it was getting 24mpg. Unless the computer or the other parts somehow can trick the onboard mpg display up at the top console?
He's said on long road trips he would change to setting 7 that he found he liked the best. And that's when he was getting 28mpg.

Danderson

The onboard computer is notorious for being generous especially with a power enhancing box or tune. Try hand calculating it. Sounds like a nice truck.

seafish

Seems like a nice truck but there is NO way a common rail 4x4 truck with oversize tires is getting anything over 21 mpg unloaded and driven extremely conservatively on the highway, and even that would be stretch...the overhead display for avg. fuel mileage is often called a "lie-o-meter" for a very good reason.

Brookster

With Banks setup on my 04 4X4 Quad cab the best fuel mileage I have ever archived was 22MPG unloaded in economy mode and I think I had a wind behind me.

When looking for the earlier 3rd gen be sure to check for slight drivetrain vibration at high speeds!

SOhappy

If he's done all the maintenance regularly and if all those upgrades are worth it to you and then go for it. Otherwise, that's about $4k high for a 2004 ST.