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If you are thinking about getting one, better hurry. Stellantis has announced they will no longer offer the diesel in the Ram 1500; no doubt the Wrangler diesel offering will suffer the same fate.

I have the same problem with those HP/torque curves as with most others I've seen...they start at 2000 rpm and seem to show the vehicle has NO power below that. My truck spends 99.9% of its time below 2000 rpm even when towing, so show me what the engine is producing from idle to 2000 rpm. I...

You heard wrong. Recommended fuel per owner's manual is good 'ol regular (87 octane around here). You can certainly run 91/93 octane; the engine will react by putting out a bit more power, just like any other engine that can adjust its timing for higher octane. I've never run anything but 87...

I suggest your "local mechanic" formed an opinion years ago and no matter what, no one is going to tell him different. Does he also have to keep replacing turbos on turbodiesels? Turbo is a turbo. Before my recent retirement I worked for a very large company that had a lot of turboed F150s...

Which is why your idea of running a SPOT and an InReach is a good one. For years I packed around an Iridium satellite phone. It worked great - except for two times when it would not connect to the Iridium system. Both times it was because Iridium had made some change to their system which my...

Exactly! I've owned turbodiesels for many years. Own two of them right now. One thing I've never had is a problem with a turbo.

I hear you! One of my other rigs has the 6.8 V-10 in it, with 4.56 gears. Yet it shifts down going over any mountain pass - the engine doesn't seem to make power unless it is turning close to 4000 rpm. Which is why I am so happy with the 3.5 Ecoboost. 3.55 gears behind that engine - yet it...

Don't write off the whole system because you happened to get a bad unit. I am part of a Search and Rescue unit and follow the scuttlebutt on Spot and InReach and other such units . Yours is the first I've heard of that simply died. It's a mechanical gadget and like any other gadget, it can...

I'm a bit perplexed by the torque curves K&N came up with and it makes me wonder if they somehow modified the vehicles they tested (as in using K&N intakes). I did a lot of research before buying my F150 with the 3.5 Ecoboost in 2016. One of the reasons I went with this engine were all the...

Yup! Unless you bring along a big family, a van is the way to go as far as I'm concerned. HUGE cargo capacity compared to any pickup truck...bought my first van in 1972 and still vannin' today! With the dirt bike in the back.... But, since I'm now crowding 80 years old, most of the time...

The frameless windows is one of the reasons I decided NOT to order a Bronco. Especially after reading some of the forum posts of how the windows rattle when halfway down when driving on dirt roads. One guy claims on his Bronco, when driving in a strong crosswind the suction will pull the...

I've been taking my vacations in Utah for the past 30+ years now; I can testify that Utah folks are the friendliest, most helpful folks you'll find anywhere. Why I keep going back.

I've yet to camp in a "campground". So to level I carry a shovel and dig a hole to lower whichever tires need it. And fill in the hole when I leave. Worked great for 20+ years!

^Excellent, accurate post. I have a F150 3.5 Ecoboost - it is my "Sunday go-to-meetin'" daily driver. Gets superb mileage empty - drops to 14 mpg if I tow my side by side on a trailer. Although mine has been ultra reliable - in 6 years it has not been in the shop for any reason. For the...

TJ owner for 24 years...first one was a 1998 Sahara, now a 2006 Rubicon. Unless you are going to do a lot of hard-core trails, do yourself a favor and go with the 4Runner. Our tolerance for pain/discomfort decreases with age...my TJ does beat me up enough these days that I'm shopping for a new...

No doubt depends on where you wheel. Here we have a lot of two-track roads that dip in and out of dry creek beds and breakover angle is critical, much more so than turning circle. I came to a very abrupt halt one day dropping into one of those dips in my crew cab long bed Ram (really long...

Just what do you mean by "moderate off-roading"? I've owned a F150 for several years now and I can tell you there is simply not enough ground clearance for anything but driving dirt roads. Your Taco has a lot of ground clearance; any F250/350 will also have abundant ground clearance so unless...