As far as other forum I am a member of THE DIESEL PAGE for going on 3 years. Never and I mean never has a thread in 2 years ever had been Started on BS about Dodge. On occasion someone will drag a thread there we all comment about the bull c**p that it is about the Duramax. Some off the members from here have posted there with some great info with tons of respect right back at them.
amcintyre - sorry to burst your bubble but there have been a number of times in the past the the Cummins has been slammed on the dieselpage. I have posted over there in the past and been slammed repeatedly although I tried very hard to remain unbiased. In one case I put a post out there in the war room forum (I don't think that was the name of it, but I don't remember it now and it was deleted some time ago) where I posted my thoughts after test driving a D/A truck. Many of the members over there took my review for what it was and thanked me for it - however there were a few that took any negative comment that I made and blasted at me for it. I also put a post on there at one time warning about a bad fuel incident that I had and was trying to warn other diesel owners about it - I had quite a few guys that blasted at me even on that thread just because I was a Dodge owner and I made no mention of it in my post at all! There was another case where someone went through all the TSB's that had ever been published on the 2nd generation RAM to say how bad it was, I then researched the TSB's on the new Chevy's and found that more TSB's had been released on the new Chevy (1/2 ton & HD's) since the new body style than had been released on the 2nd gen RAM's - I posted that and was blasted there too because I posted all the TSB's for 1/2 ton and HD's for 2 years on the Chevy and on the Dodge's only those for HD's for 11 years (I thought 11 years worth of TSB's on the HD Dodges compared to 2 years of the LD and HD Chevy's should at least be comparable). My point is that on any site there will be some people that will blast away at you if you are from the "other" side.
Now what I have seen on the dieselpage is a great tendency to discount problems that people have had with their trucks because of the past history of the 6. 2 and 6. 5 engines making people gun shy - that is where the VIN # joke comes from on here. A recent example was a guy (can't remember his name) that was having continuing troubles with his allison transmission hotshotting with heavy loads all the time, he was accused of being a Dodge or a Ford owner trying to stir stuff up, people requesting his vin #, etc. There were several hundred posts on there going after that poor guy.
The "tick" problem is a great example, I truly believe that if we had a problem like that on the CTD engines here that we'd have guys working on a solution for the problem even if they had to tear into the engines and redesign stuff to make it work - much like has happened on the Ford Diesel site with the cackle problem. On the dieselpage it seems that GM's line of "it's normal" has been taken hook line and sinker. On the dieselpage site as an outsider it seems that any problems are immediately suspect as a Ford or Dodge owner trying to stir stuff up, and it doesn't take long for calls for them to post a VIN # to prove it. I have never seen a post on the Dodge or Ford sites asking for a VIN # to prove something, people on both sites are taken for their word if they have a problem and people don't get offended that they're trying to insult their trucks by making stuff up. Instead what you see is "post pictures, how do you run your truck, how many miles, etc" so that we can get to the source of the problem and try to come up with a fix for it if D/C doesn't. We certainly have our share of problems that we deal with - but we try hard to deal with them and come up with a solution, lift pumps on 24v trucks are a perfect example. From what I've seen on the dieselpage site I can't say the same over there - although I do have to say that the situation is MUCH MUCH better today than it was 2 years ago when the D/A's were just hitting the streets. Guys over there are getting much more realistic about their trucks today than they were then and realizing that anything made by man has it's faults and it's failures.
I have my issues with the new Chevy HD's, keep in mind that I have owned nothing but Chevy's until I bought my wife's Jeep (great buy) and my Dodge and my family is very vested in GM - both my father and father in law are GM execs. I for one HATE the idea of an IFS front suspension in a 4wd truck - it's cost me way too much over the years because I truly use my truck, off road it, race it, etc. However, I realize that GM is targeting a different market than me - for my market Dodge and Ford fit the bill better. GM's hit the nail on the head for those that want to tow RV's with their 4x4 trucks and will only drive on the road, they have a smooth ride, low step in height, etc. For those of us that off road our trucks (whether that be true off road rock crawling, on the sand dunes, mud, trails, etc or those that are going in and out of construction sites day in and day out) they've missed the mark - we need solid front axles that can withstand a lot of abuse and a lot of ground clearance. Different strokes for different folks! JMHO
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Like I said, welcome all
. I don't think I was even flaming amcintyre-I just stated that if you want to come into a rival gang's clubhouse and state your opinions be ready for what's gonna come back at you... . If you've got something really nasty/hateful/demeaning to throw at me PM me-and I will give you my phone # and you can blather to me person-to-person..... 
I have a buddy with a 4x4 regular cab 2500 Cheby it has a 6spd in it and he is in love with the truck. (sounds familiar)
you can't hardly recline them at all and they sit really low and make it hard for me to see out. It does run pretty good though and sounds pretty good now that we put his strait pipe on. 
I would really like to have one of those. 
