Consumer Reports Truck Review . . .

[AWade]

Someone please correct me if I am wrong but, I was flipping through a consumer reports "Car and Truck Buyer's Guide" in the grocery store line and it appeared that my truck ('06 2500) got their worst rating possible and, in particular, the applied it to the fuel system. Now, I don't have much faith in consumer reports knowing anything about heavy duty trucks but I was wondering if anyone knew why they thought that the 3rd gen's in general were such bad trucks. I did not have time to read their reasoning for the poor rating. I have never put much faith in their ability to judge a vehicle but I was of the impression that it should be difficult to get such a poor rating.

 

[Schrowang]

I wouldn't trust Consumer Reports any further than I could throw them. They wouldn't know a good truck if it ran over them. Yeah, our pre 05 trucks had problems with the fuel pump. I knew that when I bought it, and had mine replaced with the in-tank pump under factory warrantee. Otherwise, the truck has been a workhorse. At least Chrysler fixed the problem with a different fuel pump.

 

[phloop]

After the shady stuff that rag did concerning the Suzuki Samurai I don't trust ANYTHING they print or say.

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

CU has had the same attitude for decades. . . I read through some Consumer Reports from the early '50s and was floored their car reviews and ratings sounded like a piece out of today's magazines. My beef was they'd equip vehicles in really unrealistic ways then harp on them for unsatisfactory performance. . . for instance I recall an article of a longbed S-10 Blazer 4x4 extracab that was fully optioned - and ordered up with the 4-cylinder automatic!



The sad thing was my aunt read CU religiously in the '80s, so much so they bought a new Toyo minivan in '85. What a sorry piece of transportation that was. Rode and handled terrible, mediocre fuel economy, gutless, and a terror to drive in crosswinds. But CU ranked it #1 in quality!

 

[hammersley]

They only report what is given to them by their

Subscribers - in their annual request... ... I have responded several times buy laughed at it... . actually how many Dodge Diesel Pickup owners do you think actually SUBSCRIBE to Consumer Reports???? As memory serves me - they don't tell you the sample size for each vehicle test they report on... . so to me the numbers are of questionable value... .

 

[Edgemann55]

Consumer Reports=:-laf You want the skinney on a Dodge Cummins come here and talk to people who own them and work them hard. No truck is perfect but my 05 is close. With the info I gain here I can see many more happy trouble free miles like I have had so far.

 

[CPittman]

Why do you even care what CU says? My trucks cranks off at 7:00 a. m. and shuts down at 8:00 p. m. every day, all week long, month after month. Now with 177,188 miles on the clock, it's still the fastest thing through the quarter mile pulling a house. Let's see one of their beloved yodas do that.

 

[Grizzly]

The 95 CTD I had was as perfect as can be. For the 10 years I owned it, it was not in the shop even once except for recalls. In fact I had the extended warranty and never used once. So far my 05 CTD has been as good, zero problems. What get me is that CR rate Ferd very good and all the ferd's my brother-in-law has had (5) were alway in the shop numerous times, which includes his 08 6. 4, super poop.

 

[Forrest Nearing]

Consumer Reports is just another form of advertising... totally biased

 

[CDonaldson]

If I had based my purchases on what I have read from consumer reports, I would not have a fraction of the GREAT stuff I have today, to include my truck.



More often than not, those items recommended by consumer reports are the almost middle to bottm, generally no frills, generic so-to-speak products of most all product lines. I always assumed that the people who actually rate stuff in the consumer reports polls, are also those cheap, penny-pinchers, squeeze the poop after it comes out of the buffalo group. I can say that BECAUSE my aunt and uncle always used consumer reports as a guideline for all their purchases, and they were of the forementioned mentality. Meanwhile, they always complained about everything they bought after using that guideline, and always as well ended up getting all those extended warranties for the junk, of which never paid off in repairs, etc because most of the time the warranty company found some lame excuse to deny the warranty.



Go figure.



CD

 

[RankRam]

:-laf If they were actually impressed with the Dodge Cummins... ..... I would be concerned that I made the wrong decision about the truck I bought!

 

[phloop]

They only report what is given to them by their Subscribers

Wrong. They report what the company that pays them the most wants them to report. And the bias of the bozo's running the rag.

 

[Forrest Nearing]

Wrong. They report what the company that pays them the most wants them to report. And the bias of the bozo's running the rag.

exactly! 10

 

[Loren]

I finally dropped my subscription to Consumer Reports a couple of years ago. I had been a subscriber since about 1968.



My main reason for dropping them was that their answer to every consumer problem was more government intervention to protect idiots from themselves. It's been said that you can't make anything idiot proof because idiots are so ingenious.



I just couldn't stand to support the liberal, government-can-fix-everything organization any longer.



I had used the magazine occasionally to learn about VCR's or digital cameras, but they clearly knew nothing about work vehicles. They would be likely to test the Dodge Cummins with some other trucks by hauling a dozen hay bales, and downgrade it because it was bigger and heavier than the Ford Ranger that hauled the same dozen bales. They won't buy a 10,000 pound trailer to use to test the trucks, probably because most of their readers don't do that sort of thing.



As CD implies, Consumer Reports caters to the mediocre, not the truly discerning consumer, and certainly not to fanatics like us.



Loren

 

[phloop]

I finally dropped my subscription to Consumer Reports a couple of years ago. I had been a subscriber since about 1968.



As CD implies, Consumer Reports caters to the mediocre, not the truly discerning consumer, and certainly not to fanatics like us.



Loren

Would you have kept any old issues? If so, would you be kind enough to PM me? I am looking for a certain issue, maybe a couple along the same line. Thanks.

 

[KParsons]

fridge

i did buy a fridge because of themkp

 

[Loren]

Would you have kept any old issues? If so, would you be kind enough to PM me? I am looking for a certain issue, maybe a couple along the same line. Thanks.

phloop,



I do have SOME back issues. PM is on the way.



Loren