Just joined the 2012 club!!
03-24-2012, 03:37 PM
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Just joined the 2012 club!!
I traded in my red 08 5500 Laramie quad cab 4x4 C&C on a white 2012 Laramie 3500 4x4 crew cab dually two days ago. I am constantly AMAZED by this truck!! It is WONDERFUL!! So quiet and powerful.
Here is the story. We full-time RV since we retired 4 years ago. The past two years, we have used the 08 5500. While it was a good truck, it rode like an old western movie buckboard wagon. We bought it because at the time, the 3500's could not haul our fifth wheel trailer weight wise. I started looking at getting a new truck.
We found a red dually 2WD in Phoenix. We had the salesman in Tucson do the deal on it. We were happy and went to lunch. While at lunch, we got a call from the salesman. It seems that the red dually we wanted was damaged in transit so much that the Phoenix dealer was trying to get Dodge to do a buyback on it.
So, we were back to square one. The monkey wrench in our desires was that any truck we bought HAD to have the Max Tow package. There were none so equipped in Tucson. There were two MT Laramies in Phoenix, one red in the shop and one white. We took the white one. Even though it came with 4x4 and the sliding glass hole in the roof, we took it. The Tucson Dodge guys gave us a great deal on it. Adding the 4x4 and the hole in the roof was about $4000 more than the other deal on the red 2x4, but we got it for $1500 more.
We picked it up two days ago. Had the step bars installed locally here in Tucson day before yesterday for $400. The Dodge boys wanted $700 to put on Mopars. Got the bed Line-Xed with the premium pack yesterday. We have an appointment Wednesday to get the 20K Curt hitch installed.
Life is good!
Down the road, I see us installing a Transfer Flow 50 gallon aux tank.
We now have 530 miles on it. It had 191 after the trip to Tucson from the Phoenix dealer. The first fill up netted 13.7 mpg. I really don't see that as a problem, as it will only get better as we get her broke in.
Anyways, just had to share!!
Joe
I tried to upload some picts, but was unable to. You can follow this link to see the pictures though. http://gallery.me.com/rvjoe#100252
Here is the story. We full-time RV since we retired 4 years ago. The past two years, we have used the 08 5500. While it was a good truck, it rode like an old western movie buckboard wagon. We bought it because at the time, the 3500's could not haul our fifth wheel trailer weight wise. I started looking at getting a new truck.
We found a red dually 2WD in Phoenix. We had the salesman in Tucson do the deal on it. We were happy and went to lunch. While at lunch, we got a call from the salesman. It seems that the red dually we wanted was damaged in transit so much that the Phoenix dealer was trying to get Dodge to do a buyback on it.
So, we were back to square one. The monkey wrench in our desires was that any truck we bought HAD to have the Max Tow package. There were none so equipped in Tucson. There were two MT Laramies in Phoenix, one red in the shop and one white. We took the white one. Even though it came with 4x4 and the sliding glass hole in the roof, we took it. The Tucson Dodge guys gave us a great deal on it. Adding the 4x4 and the hole in the roof was about $4000 more than the other deal on the red 2x4, but we got it for $1500 more.
We picked it up two days ago. Had the step bars installed locally here in Tucson day before yesterday for $400. The Dodge boys wanted $700 to put on Mopars. Got the bed Line-Xed with the premium pack yesterday. We have an appointment Wednesday to get the 20K Curt hitch installed.
Life is good!
Down the road, I see us installing a Transfer Flow 50 gallon aux tank.
We now have 530 miles on it. It had 191 after the trip to Tucson from the Phoenix dealer. The first fill up netted 13.7 mpg. I really don't see that as a problem, as it will only get better as we get her broke in.
Anyways, just had to share!!
Joe
I tried to upload some picts, but was unable to. You can follow this link to see the pictures though. http://gallery.me.com/rvjoe#100252
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