eightballsidepocket
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Hornet28BHDS wrote:eightballsidepocket wrote:After getting burned on a first year model or where the model was radically changed and not just a re-skin, I had nothing but CEL's, and other warranty issues to take care of. Whoever got my car after I traded it in, probably got a very reliabe vehicle, as I ironed-out all the first year bugs, with numerous trips to the dealer.
We had this same thing happen to us when we got our Titan in '04. I've learned my lesson to never buy new again!
Those new Rams do look nice, though!
I frequent the Titan forum often, and check out various topics including the "problems" one. My heart really goes out to a lot of Titan owners of the 04-05 models. Some of those owners have gone through 2-3 Nissan designed - dana 40 rear ends.
I know that the Titan owners over there are pretty upset with the possibility that the upcoming 1/2 ton Titan may have Dodge running gear, but then again, it maybe a good thing for both companies, as Dodge will get the Nissan Versa's platform to do a gas thrifty Dodge model.
I came so close to buying a 2005 Titan back in 05, but the dealer wouldn't budge much in negotiations, so I actually walked next door to the Dodge dealer, and went home with the 2005 3/4 ton Dodge Ram Diesel. I realize that Dodge has it's quirks, from year to year, but I think Nissan Titan owners have really suffered through some rough times; especially the early year owners. I'm not one to bash owners of other makes. I think the Titan platform is a solid one, but it's been a tough road for the early Titan owners. Not all of them of course.
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My aunt and uncle have an '05 Titan, and absolutely love it. My uncle swears by Nissan trucks. To get the '05, he traded his old Nissan truck in, along with an old van of theirs, to the dealer. A few days later, he missed the old Nissan truck so much, he went and bought it back from the dealer!
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I have had a 09 Ram 2500 Diesel since July. Great truck, no problems at all.
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Hornet28BHDS
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eightballsidepocket wrote:Hornet28BHDS wrote:eightballsidepocket wrote:After getting burned on a first year model or where the model was radically changed and not just a re-skin, I had nothing but CEL's, and other warranty issues to take care of. Whoever got my car after I traded it in, probably got a very reliabe vehicle, as I ironed-out all the first year bugs, with numerous trips to the dealer.
We had this same thing happen to us when we got our Titan in '04. I've learned my lesson to never buy new again!
Those new Rams do look nice, though!
I frequent the Titan forum often, and check out various topics including the "problems" one. My heart really goes out to a lot of Titan owners of the 04-05 models. Some of those owners have gone through 2-3 Nissan designed - dana 40 rear ends.
I know that the Titan owners over there are pretty upset with the possibility that the upcoming 1/2 ton Titan may have Dodge running gear, but then again, it maybe a good thing for both companies, as Dodge will get the Nissan Versa's platform to do a gas thrifty Dodge model.
I came so close to buying a 2005 Titan back in 05, but the dealer wouldn't budge much in negotiations, so I actually walked next door to the Dodge dealer, and went home with the 2005 3/4 ton Dodge Ram Diesel. I realize that Dodge has it's quirks, from year to year, but I think Nissan Titan owners have really suffered through some rough times; especially the early year owners. I'm not one to bash owners of other makes. I think the Titan platform is a solid one, but it's been a tough road for the early Titan owners. Not all of them of course.
Thank you very much for feeling that way. When I usually say that, I'm flamed by people that tell me I hate Nissan!
Our truck visited the shop quite a few times after we got it for bad brakes, seats, etc. The icing on the cake was when that rear axel went. We were just getting ready to head out east with the TT and thankfully we were just under the 60,000 mile powertrain warranty. We made the trip out, but on the way back we decided that we had enough with it and picked up the Ram.
Our Titan was a really nice truck when we first got it. It rode nice, was really roomy, and man did it look good! After the problems though, the nice qualities wore off!
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Hornet28BHDS wrote:eightballsidepocket wrote:Hornet28BHDS wrote:eightballsidepocket wrote:After getting burned on a first year model or where the model was radically changed and not just a re-skin, I had nothing but CEL's, and other warranty issues to take care of. Whoever got my car after I traded it in, probably got a very reliabe vehicle, as I ironed-out all the first year bugs, with numerous trips to the dealer.
We had this same thing happen to us when we got our Titan in '04. I've learned my lesson to never buy new again!
Those new Rams do look nice, though!
I frequent the Titan forum often, and check out various topics including the "problems" one. My heart really goes out to a lot of Titan owners of the 04-05 models. Some of those owners have gone through 2-3 Nissan designed - dana 40 rear ends.
I know that the Titan owners over there are pretty upset with the possibility that the upcoming 1/2 ton Titan may have Dodge running gear, but then again, it maybe a good thing for both companies, as Dodge will get the Nissan Versa's platform to do a gas thrifty Dodge model.
I came so close to buying a 2005 Titan back in 05, but the dealer wouldn't budge much in negotiations, so I actually walked next door to the Dodge dealer, and went home with the 2005 3/4 ton Dodge Ram Diesel. I realize that Dodge has it's quirks, from year to year, but I think Nissan Titan owners have really suffered through some rough times; especially the early year owners. I'm not one to bash owners of other makes. I think the Titan platform is a solid one, but it's been a tough road for the early Titan owners. Not all of them of course.
Thank you very much for feeling that way. When I usually say that, I'm flamed by people that tell me I hate Nissan!
Our truck visited the shop quite a few times after we got it for bad brakes, seats, etc. The icing on the cake was when that rear axel went. We were just getting ready to head out east with the TT and thankfully we were just under the 60,000 mile powertrain warranty. We made the trip out, but on the way back we decided that we had enough with it and picked up the Ram.
Our Titan was a really nice truck when we first got it. It rode nice, was really roomy, and man did it look good! After the problems though, the nice qualities wore off!
And what is a shame, is that likely Nissan has those bugs worked out and the Titan is likely a great truck now. Those early problems though cost Nissan some sales over the years.
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Local dealer, Prince Frederick Dodge, has four new '09 1500s on display. Silver, blue, and a very bright yellow. All crew cabs, all heavily loaded models, very nice looking trucks. If that ram head imprint was not on the air bag cover, you would think you were in a different brand truck. Plus $41,000 price a bit steep, escpecially parked next to a '08 model with it's price slashed in half.
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surveyorjp wrote:Hornet28BHDS wrote:eightballsidepocket wrote:Hornet28BHDS wrote:eightballsidepocket wrote:After getting burned on a first year model or where the model was radically changed and not just a re-skin, I had nothing but CEL's, and other warranty issues to take care of. Whoever got my car after I traded it in, probably got a very reliabe vehicle, as I ironed-out all the first year bugs, with numerous trips to the dealer.
We had this same thing happen to us when we got our Titan in '04. I've learned my lesson to never buy new again!
Those new Rams do look nice, though!
I frequent the Titan forum often, and check out various topics including the "problems" one. My heart really goes out to a lot of Titan owners of the 04-05 models. Some of those owners have gone through 2-3 Nissan designed - dana 40 rear ends.
I know that the Titan owners over there are pretty upset with the possibility that the upcoming 1/2 ton Titan may have Dodge running gear, but then again, it maybe a good thing for both companies, as Dodge will get the Nissan Versa's platform to do a gas thrifty Dodge model.
I came so close to buying a 2005 Titan back in 05, but the dealer wouldn't budge much in negotiations, so I actually walked next door to the Dodge dealer, and went home with the 2005 3/4 ton Dodge Ram Diesel. I realize that Dodge has it's quirks, from year to year, but I think Nissan Titan owners have really suffered through some rough times; especially the early year owners. I'm not one to bash owners of other makes. I think the Titan platform is a solid one, but it's been a tough road for the early Titan owners. Not all of them of course.
Thank you very much for feeling that way. When I usually say that, I'm flamed by people that tell me I hate Nissan!
Our truck visited the shop quite a few times after we got it for bad brakes, seats, etc. The icing on the cake was when that rear axel went. We were just getting ready to head out east with the TT and thankfully we were just under the 60,000 mile powertrain warranty. We made the trip out, but on the way back we decided that we had enough with it and picked up the Ram.
Our Titan was a really nice truck when we first got it. It rode nice, was really roomy, and man did it look good! After the problems though, the nice qualities wore off!
And what is a shame, is that likely Nissan has those bugs worked out and the Titan is likely a great truck now. Those early problems though cost Nissan some sales over the years.
The only concern that I did pick up on the Titan forums is that the Dana 40 rear end should have been upgraded to a Dana 60.
Quite a few Titan owners actually replaced their Nissan designed Dana 40's with aftermarket differentials that are much stronger.
It wasn't that many years ago that 1/2 tons came with Dana 40's, but I don't think that the Dodge/Ford/GM 1/2 tons have been using Dana 40's for sometime, especially with the towing weights going up to 8,000-10,000 lbs. I thought that Nissan would have gone to a beefier rear end after the 04-05 model years, as their dealer service departments were inundated with rear end failures. I sure hope that Nissan will cover the cost of any failures on these early Titans that are out of warranty.
I went through something similar years ago with a 968 Porsche. The 92-95 Porsche 968's had a rear Getrag transaxle, 6 speed manual tranny, that was notorious for failing. The Getrag folks over tightened the pinion gear/bearings, and many of these 6 speed transaxles were gradually burning up their bearing races, and timken bearings from just plain old over torquing clearances.
My Porsche failed at 29K miles, but my 3 year 36 month warranty had expired by 3 years and a few months.
Porsche summarily refused to fix/replace my tranny. It cost me over $2,000 to have that tranny torn down and bearings and bearing races replaced!
You wouldn't believe how many of these manual 6 speed Getrags failed! To this day, Porsche North American has not fixed one out of warranty failure, and has basically "blown off" the 968 owners that encountered this very expensive factory defect.
I don't own a Porsche anymore. I gladly sold the car. I just can't afford that kind of car anyway. It nickel and dimed me for every little boo boo that it had. Just replacing a hydraulic clutch cylinder hose was $300.00!
Anyway, Nissan should have upgraded to a heavier differential in the Titan......I'm glad the the more recent Titans don't seem to be encountering as much differential problems and the earlier models, but I'd still be a little skiddish about towing a fairly heavy TT with a Dana 40 axle. I realize many are doing this with no problem. I just read so many sad, heart ache stories on the Titan forum. They'd hear a "Pop!". Maybe Nissan has a monstrous stockpile of Dana 40's and that's why they didn't go to a heavier rear end in the later year Titans?
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2004 Titans suffered from a bunch that madeit out with under filled rear diffs. There was a recall/TSB on this. The 2005MY was much better and the issues decreased as production went on. In almost all cases the failures were related to the spider gears "folding" and failing. Dana used a powdered metal manufacturing method for these gears and it appeared from the pieces parts I have seen in the diffs that failed they mushed over like they were never hardened fully. If you research the failures it reeks of a material defect, not an engineering defect. Failures were all over the board. There have been failures in Titans used as a soccer mom vehicle, meanwhile there are those who tow heavy with some frequency that have had no issues. The folks with multiple failures, one cannot discount some other problem or some form of user inflected issue. I just cannot fathom going through 3-4 axles. Sorry. That bucks the trend for first time failure percentage. The other area I personally have had problems with is rear axle seals. I have been through 3. No problems anymore. If one does not notice this leak in time it will run the diff low and cause overheating. Lets face it, many vehicle owners do the fill it with gas and oil style of maintenance. The diff replacement of choice is to go with a Detroit Tru Track. It eliminates the spider gears and I have yet to read about a Tru Track failure on TitanTalk. That is the weakest area of the truck and an area Dodge may have been able to help with. Other than that Nissan was doing just fine with a first entry into the fullsize club. They trumped what Toyota offered out of the gate with the first Tundras. Too bad gas prices hammered all the fullsized sales. Timing is everything.
That being said, the new Dodge does look nice and I will certainly give it a test drive. However I am probably going to be in the market for a 250/2500 model for my next truck. Hopefully Dodges styling looks good on their HD's too!
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OK I just don’t get it, why oh why can’t Chrysler ever do something right? They design, engineer and build a drop dead gorgeous truck, then make it a short box!  
Hey to all the clowns up in Auburn Hill’s Please oh Please take a moment and reach around and pull your heads out of your backsides will you, BEFORE It’s to late!!!!! 
And what’s up with the back seat? It’s a crew cab guys give it a full rear bench! Man, we go up to the line then take 2 steps backwards every time!
They did the same thing in 2002 when they came out with the Quad Cab instead of a true crew cab like Ford and GM have. I surely hope this is just a short term over sight and maybe the HD Trucks will get an 8 foot box with the True Crew Cab! We can only hope! 
Chrysler needs to get Luts (sp) back from GM, another Daimler screw up there. 
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The MegaCab is only gone for the 1500's. On the Dodge Website you can still build a 2009 2500 or 3500 with the MegaCab option. So it is at least around for another model year.
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