Ordering 2010 HD?

[JRS]

Just stopped in at a local dealer here in Houston. According to them, as of yesterday you can order a 2010 HD. No brochures, no options list they could present to me and nothing on the Dodge website. Salesman was not aware that the 2010 would be offered with the crew cab instead of the quad cab. I'm a little leary.....

 

[LHarper]

I'm sure dealers would like to start taking 2010 orders, but when the order is placed into the build process is another question. I was told not to expect 2010 HD until November at the earliest. With no information on ordering available, your hesitation is well grounded. Would not put any money down on an order until more information was available. Hope this helps.

 

[JRS]

The lack of a list of options was the key point for me. I'm not so worried about the brochures.

 

[HBarlow]

Call their bluff. Tell the salesman/sales manager that you are ready to order if they'll sit down with you in front of their sales office computer and key in the order. They're trying to get you hooked knowing full well they can't actually order a new truck yet.

 

[Deleted member 995608]

You might as well ask em' for a $1 million dollars

 

[Ten_Bucks]

I just got off of the phone with Marty at Dave Smith Motors in Kellogg, Idaho and he told me that they are not accepting any orders on the 2010 HDs yet. Like what was posted earlier, expect to wait until around November to be able to order.



Scott

 

[HBarlow]

You might as well ask em' for a $1 million dollars

I have copies of the invoice of all three Rams I've owned. I ordered two of them sitting down at the computer with my salesman just as I stated above, the previous '06 and my current '08. It's simply a matter of finding a good dealer.

 

[WMonroe]

One of the salesman at the dealership my wife works at just went to training for the 2010 HD Ram. They are supposed to be available in October, and the c/c is going to maintain the old (06-09) body style until spring of 2010 and the new style will be out as a 2011 model.

Will

 

[SOLER]

One of the salesman at the dealership my wife works at just went to training for the 2010 HD Ram. They are supposed to be available in October, and the c/c is going to maintain the old (06-09) body style until spring of 2010 and the new style will be out as a 2011 model.

Will

there is no crew cab on the '06-'09 body style. So, are you saying they won't make a crew cab until the '11 model, and keep making a mega cab with this body style until then?

 

[Jeff Knight]

there is no crew cab on the '06-'09 body style. So, are you saying they won't make a crew cab until the '11 model, and keep making a mega cab with this body style until then?

It is just the cab & chassis

 

[Grizzly]

One of the salesman at the dealership my wife works at just went to training for the 2010 HD Ram. They are supposed to be available in October, and the c/c is going to maintain the old (06-09) body style until spring of 2010 and the new style will be out as a 2011 model.

Will

That's what I was told by my Dodge Dealer. No new body style until 2011.



I didn't go in to see about a new truck. I went in to get my free oil change, which I do every 6 months.

 

[SOLER]

My bad...my blunder

It is just the cab & chassis

c/c as in cab/chassis, not as in crew cab. Got it!



Thanks

 

[WMonroe]

Yeah, sorry meant cab and chassis.

Will

 

[Rampage]

I went in to the Dodge dealership in Tinley Park, IL and was told by a salesman that he read a memo that said Dodge was no longer going to offer the Cummins engine after the 2009 model year. Though he did say that a diesel engine would be available for 2010 & beyond. When I asked about the brand of engine, he said he didn't know but suspected a "Fiat" diesel engine. Anyone else heard about this?

 

[SOLER]

Cummins in 2010

I went in to the Dodge dealership in Tinley Park, IL and was told by a salesman that he read a memo that said Dodge was no longer going to offer the Cummins engine after the 2009 model year. Though he did say that a diesel engine would be available for 2010 & beyond. When I asked about the brand of engine, he said he didn't know but suspected a "Fiat" diesel engine. Anyone else heard about this?

Dodge.com says Cummins 6. 7 in 2010



SOLER

 

[Rampage]

Dodge.com says Cummins 6. 7 in 2010

SOLER

Thanks, I'll look to another dealership then.

 

[HBarlow]

I went in to the Dodge dealership in Tinley Park, IL and was told by a salesman that he read a memo that said Dodge was no longer going to offer the Cummins engine after the 2009 model year. Though he did say that a diesel engine would be available for 2010 & beyond. When I asked about the brand of engine, he said he didn't know but suspected a "Fiat" diesel engine. Anyone else heard about this?

A typical uninformed salesman blowing smoke out his rear. As is often the case, he had no idea what he was talking about.

Fiat has been in business for 100 years or more. I seriously doubt that anyone in Fiat upper management is dumb enough to utterly destroy current sales and the Dodge brand name by replacing the mighty Cummins engine with a Fiat. Sales of Dodge Rams would plummet to the bottom of the charts like a steel ball dropped in a swimming pool.

As a general rule if you want to learn something about a current automobile or truck go to the nearest dealership of that brand, walk up to a saleman and . . . . . . ask him for a brochure. Go home and read it and you'll know far more than the typical salesman who's been selling that line for years.

I've sold cars and trucks and been F&I manager in a dealership. Trust me, most salesman know little to nothing about the product they sell.

 

[SNiebaum]

I went in to the Dodge dealership in Tinley Park, IL and was told by a salesman that he read a memo that said Dodge was no longer going to offer the Cummins engine after the 2009 model year. Though he did say that a diesel engine would be available for 2010 & beyond. When I asked about the brand of engine, he said he didn't know but suspected a "Fiat" diesel engine. Anyone else heard about this?

I hope this is saracasm... and I don't mean the part about the Fiat diesel... I mean that part about you actually needing to ask the question... if it comes out of a salesman's mouth, you might as well treat it as the weeks garbage and toss it out.

 

[Austin Diesel]

hope the 10s are redesigned if not it will a setback on the exhaust designs on the 2500 3500 it is choking the engines regens are bad,



i was sitting in a tall dry grass field, clearing cedar stumps and it goes into regen then i think about exhaust temps and wonder if the tall grass under truck could catch fire in austin texas it hasnt rained here in over a year due to the drought. would not think the forest service would ever buy this truck with the current exhaust setup is extremely hazardous 1200 degrees?





Think that dodge has not paid cummins that $$47 million in cash they owed to them yet ?, that bankruptcy might have absolved them from repayment ?



maybe with a fiat diesel /what are they lombardi diesels ? will have a pizza cooker under the hood on the turbo and get 35 mpg?



i love my truck but 14. 4 mpg and constant regens suck as the fuel guage drops , exhaust systems are a source of constant maintainance aggravation, poor design for the long term .



need the full urea injected bluetec for all models if it eliminates or reduces regen issues



And yes this truck is for pulling but cannot drag the 40 foot gooseneck or backhoe to the grocery store or the hay wagon around town just to load motor not a commuter or grocery getter but it is nice to drive it into town ever so often. maybe just to the fuel station to fill it up again or make my payment again.



just wonder if a big bore supercharged and turboed V4 with hydraulic cooling fans fan hydraulically driven accessories and onboard compressed air and would make the same numbers with a 2 speed rearend and get better mpg with awd .

been looking at the new electro hydraulic transmissions coming out now also in diesel electric hybrids just hate getting 77 mpg for my commuter suv /car



Austin Diesel

 

[HBarlow]

I, for one, wouldn't have anything with a Fiat badge on it and certainly not a Fiat diesel in a Dodge Ram.

It is silly to speculate about replacing the Cummins engine w/Fiat as a cure for the emissions crap. The EGR/DPF mess is the best solution the engineers could come up with to meet the stupid and unreasonable tree hugger requirements imposed by EPA bureaucrats. Any diesel engine sold now is going to have some form or restrictive junk cobbled on it to catch soot.