Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
I have a rattle in the dash, but it's from the after market stereo I had installed. Otherwise, I am impressed with the overall build quality. I've had three other Dodge trucks, what really impressed me was how rattle FREE they were after 60K.
Try another dealer, there are more bad ones than good ones in ALL the brands. Also, did you buy your truck from your local dealer where you get it serviced? It makes a difference, and you have to be reasonable/helpful to them as well. If I purchased my truck from a far away dealer just to save $1000, I'd be last on the list at my local dealer. It's like that with every brand. I know the guys who work at my dealer, I BS with them, etc.
I have friends with PS's, water pumps every 50k, transmission's at 75k. Everyone one I know or who I have talked to, except one person HATES their new 6. 0 PS/super duties, love the 7. 3's. Main complaint, ENGINE problems, rattles, weird interior.
The Chevy's don't count, their 3500's are still in the heavy half world. All of our Chevy's at work have continuous problems like engine (electronics), doors, brakes, Allison problems (shift solinoids), but people still think it's the best truck made. The Fords seem to hold up. They have no Dodges. The worst truck BY FAR we EVER had at work were small Toyotas. According to our maintenance records, they cost more money to maintain than they were purchased for in the first 50K miles, and were totally shot, no kidding.
Dodge ain't American no more, it's a German company. I wish my truck was American Union made.
Aren't Suburbans and other Chevy's made in Meheco also? From the Internet: Mexico has become a growth pole for automobile production in North America over the last ten years, helped by a competitive currency, low labor rates and, crucially, the impact of NAFTA. GM now makes around 500,000 vehicles a year in Mexico. Stephen Dowling spoke to Bill Beaumont, until recently GM de Mexico’s chief engineer and heard about GM’s growing engineering base in Mexico.
Ford as per Internet: The first plant to be established is the Cuautitlan industrial complex plant, constructed in 1964, which operates as an assembly and stamping plant. Its actual production concentrates on Ford Contour, Mercury Mystique, F-150, F-250 and F-350. The second plant to be constructed in Mexican territory is the Chihuahua engine plant, which initiated its operations in 1983. The last plant to be established in Mexican territory was the Hermosillo stamping and assembly plant in 1986. The Cuautitlan Assembly Plant at Ford Mexico manufactured 279,000 vehicles of which 83 per cent were exported to the US and Canada, and the Ford facilities in Chihuahua produced 335,000 units, exporting 60 per cent of its production.
Try another dealer, there are more bad ones than good ones in ALL the brands. Also, did you buy your truck from your local dealer where you get it serviced? It makes a difference, and you have to be reasonable/helpful to them as well. If I purchased my truck from a far away dealer just to save $1000, I'd be last on the list at my local dealer. It's like that with every brand. I know the guys who work at my dealer, I BS with them, etc.
I have friends with PS's, water pumps every 50k, transmission's at 75k. Everyone one I know or who I have talked to, except one person HATES their new 6. 0 PS/super duties, love the 7. 3's. Main complaint, ENGINE problems, rattles, weird interior.
The Chevy's don't count, their 3500's are still in the heavy half world. All of our Chevy's at work have continuous problems like engine (electronics), doors, brakes, Allison problems (shift solinoids), but people still think it's the best truck made. The Fords seem to hold up. They have no Dodges. The worst truck BY FAR we EVER had at work were small Toyotas. According to our maintenance records, they cost more money to maintain than they were purchased for in the first 50K miles, and were totally shot, no kidding.
Dodge ain't American no more, it's a German company. I wish my truck was American Union made.
Aren't Suburbans and other Chevy's made in Meheco also? From the Internet: Mexico has become a growth pole for automobile production in North America over the last ten years, helped by a competitive currency, low labor rates and, crucially, the impact of NAFTA. GM now makes around 500,000 vehicles a year in Mexico. Stephen Dowling spoke to Bill Beaumont, until recently GM de Mexico’s chief engineer and heard about GM’s growing engineering base in Mexico.
Ford as per Internet: The first plant to be established is the Cuautitlan industrial complex plant, constructed in 1964, which operates as an assembly and stamping plant. Its actual production concentrates on Ford Contour, Mercury Mystique, F-150, F-250 and F-350. The second plant to be constructed in Mexican territory is the Chihuahua engine plant, which initiated its operations in 1983. The last plant to be established in Mexican territory was the Hermosillo stamping and assembly plant in 1986. The Cuautitlan Assembly Plant at Ford Mexico manufactured 279,000 vehicles of which 83 per cent were exported to the US and Canada, and the Ford facilities in Chihuahua produced 335,000 units, exporting 60 per cent of its production.
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