New to the Ram family after 13 years with Chevy. Allow me to show off my 2018 CPO EcoDiesel Laramie 4x4.

[lowcountryreddirt]

Picked up this truck over Memorial Day weekend which was a local trade-in at Rick Hendrick Ram in Charleston, SC. Was looking at the Rebel but saw the inside of this, the fuel efficiency and the A/C seats and fell in love. Tan leather, sunroof, bed liner, Bilstein 5100 leveling shocks, Kumho Road Venture MTs 35x12.5 R20. 18k miles. Looking at paper work and the EGR was replaced on May 18. Engine Control Module replaced also on that date under warranty. My first diesel, so feel free to guide me and point me in the right direction to get 200k miles out of this truck. Averaging 20.3 mpg as a daily driver for work with a 30 mile round trip commute through the city.

Had driven a 2007 Chevrolet Silverado Ext-Cab Z71 2WD, bench cloth seats, bought new 13 years ago. 2 transmission rebuilds, fuel injectors replaced, sensors and other weird stuff and now I'm happy to be in something so nice and hopefully easy to maintain. Ended up keeping the Chevy as a back-up/work truck and to keep the miles off this new one. Also, the dealer was only going to give me $2,400 for the trade-in so that was insulting but expected. Pic of both:

https://imgur.com/a/wHutp8e

 

[Ecopete]

Could wonder what the 1st guys reasons were for trading in if it wasn't too many issues that did it!

 

[1shadowsabre]

Congratulations on your truck. The RAM is super comfortable and they drive really nice! They are not however all that trouble free with the emission systems intact. What the other poster meant was you might peruse this forum on Deleting the EGR with an engine tune. It appears to vastly improve the reliability and drivability of your new vehicle. Spend some time reading and enjoy!

 

[lowcountryreddirt]

Apparently, the previous owner owned a restaurant that went out of business. He possibly had to do some financial tetris.

I hate that the other comment was deleted. There were a lot of abbreviations in there that I needed to look up. I hope I'm not going to be regretting this purchase.

Needless to say, I will be purchasing the extended warranty. And I guess I should go ahead and buy the oil change package. And I obviously have a lot of reading to do, pertaining to deleting the EGR, maintaining a valid warranty, and all the other finicky items. Thanks for advice and help in the future.

 

[Ecopete]

Apparently, the previous owner owned a restaurant that went out of business. He possibly had to do some financial tetris.

I hate that the other comment was deleted. There were a lot of abbreviations in there that I needed to look up. I hope I'm not going to be regretting this purchase.

Needless to say, I will be purchasing the extended warranty. And I guess I should go ahead and buy the oil change package. And I obviously have a lot of reading to do, pertaining to deleting the EGR, maintaining a valid warranty, and all the other finicky items. Thanks for advice and help in the future.

What I should have said is, you found a nice truck, and with the right touch you should do just fine with it.
Its unfortunate when someone needs to give up something that they have nicely equipped like that.
You said it got a new ECM under warranty, and I wondered if the truck had a tune that the dealer noticed and replaced the ecm.
The new compliant tune that GDE is releasing might be the thing for during warranty IF FCA would endorse that lol

 

[TC Diesel]

Apparently, the previous owner owned a restaurant that went out of business. He possibly had to do some financial tetris.

I hate that the other comment was deleted. There were a lot of abbreviations in there that I needed to look up. I hope I'm not going to be regretting this purchase.

Needless to say, I will be purchasing the extended warranty. And I guess I should go ahead and buy the oil change package. And I obviously have a lot of reading to do, pertaining to deleting the EGR, maintaining a valid warranty, and all the other finicky items. Thanks for advice and help in the future.

I have no idea why Boost deleted the comment, it was truthful, and was not hurtful in any manner, their are 10s of 1000s current and past 3.0VM owners that agree the learning curve is brutal. Its is unlikely without changes to make 200K miles without major repairs OEM. The only 3.0s VM that I know of to Make 200K miles are HWY users and missing parts or tuned.