So, does anyone have a diesel 1500 yet or have one on order?

[4570]

Little truck ? That's the problem ,its too damn big . Think I will hold out for a diesel Frontier or a Chevy (Ugh ) Colorado.

 

[Dl5treez]

Little truck ? That's the problem ,its too damn big . Think I will hold out for a diesel Frontier or a Chevy (Ugh ) Colorado.

I hear ya there......have a '83 D50 4x4 diesel. Having driven all the diesel Rangers, Toyotas, Mitsubishis, VWs, and others in the rest of the world while on trips, I still just don't get how the supposed "greatest country in the world" can't figure out how awesome they are. Dang EPA

 

[4570]

How did you like the VW diesel .It looks like a neat truck .I hear rumors that some in Texas bring them across the border and keep them unlicensed . I think a Dodge Dakota with a 4 cyl. would be a great size truck .

 

[Dl5treez]

It's pretty nice. A bit bigger than the Toyota Hilux, or Mitsubishi Triton. I think they call it the Amarok?

Reminds me from first glance of a Honda Ridgeline, only more truck-like.

 

[DonFitzwater]

The Hi-lux and Frontier diesels I drove in Trinidad were great little trucks. I could literally find no faults with them. I still don't know why in the heck they aren't in the US yet!?!?

 

[SHobbs]

Got the notification this morning, the truck has been shipped should be here sometime between now and April 8th.

 

[DonFitzwater]

Oo. I'm excited for you! Get some pics posted as soon as you can.

 

[HPSimpson]

Well that is great news I was to my dealer yesterday, said there been slight change in delivery date now going to be 16 plus weeks, mouth drop open! So what is problem, oh not what you order Ram has running out of Vm motors. Maybe get in July or so!

 

[SHobbs]

Might as well get your foot in the door now if you really want one. I haven't heard anything about an engine supply problem but I guess it could happen they got swamped with orders.

 

[RangerGress]

Mine is built, painted, and in "Inspection". Hopefully it will be sitting in front of the house in <2 wks.

 

[SHobbs]

Ranger,

Good luck, I may be looking at a month between build date and shipping. Here is my story about my truck after it was built.

Last month on Mar. 12th my salesman said it was being built and would ship on Mar. 15th, that same week customer service said shipping on Mar. 18th. The truck did not build until Mar. 19th. Last week the salesman told me it was on the way and would arrive in Mesquite TX on April 5th and that he put in a request to get it to the dealership a.s.a.p. and should have it by the 8th if not sooner. Well, I called customer service today and found out that yes the truck was built on Mar. 19th and that it was released on Mar. 24th and there it sits waiting to be loaded on a rail car and shipped. Today I was calm when I spoke with the salesman which was difficult and I told him that shipping was not until Apr. 15th, he said he would make a few calls. I get a voice mail later stating he rattled some chains to see if he could the truck moving. I am thinking about laying into him and his general sales manager in the morning, I have connections at the dealer and I may go higher.

 

[RangerGress]

I'd encourage you to have lots of patience. You're not dealing with a precision instrument, you're dealing with a big clumsy bureaucracy containing some people who do and do not give a ****, and some people who are pretty bright and others are knuckleheads. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, and internal commo is either flat-*** wrong, was correct but got garbled, or was too slow to be useful.

Dealing with them like they are a precision instrument will only make you crazy. A good way to work this kind of situation is to find a hard-charger somewhere in their morass, and once a week send him a friendly note asking about his/her kids and your truck. Win them over, make them your advocate, then patiently give them some space to work the system on their behalf.

 

[TFucili]

SHobbs, I can't help your circumstance, but I deal with a similar situation regularly. I am a partner in a powersports dealership. Our main brand comes out of Minnesota. Very often we get invoiced for units along with VINs and load numbers. If I have pre-sold units on a load I will try to get an ETA. I am often told it is rolling, or will be rolling "any day now". Sometimes, weeks later I will find out it is still sitting at a staging area or cross-dock in the Twin Cities. Meanwhile, it is on my floorplan, and the customer is ready to slit my throat. In the end, the tail is wagging the dog, in that the traffic department is dictating to the sales department, all in the name of saving some shipping dollars, though I pay the same price per unit no matter what. It makes my blood boil on a regular basis.

 

[DonFitzwater]

SHobbs, I can't help your circumstance, but I deal with a similar situation regularly. I am a partner in a powersports dealership. Our main brand comes out of Minnesota. Very often we get invoiced for units along with VINs and load numbers. If I have pre-sold units on a load I will try to get an ETA. I am often told it is rolling, or will be rolling "any day now". Sometimes, weeks later I will find out it is still sitting at a staging area or cross-dock in the Twin Cities. Meanwhile, it is on my floorplan, and the customer is ready to slit my throat. In the end, the tail is wagging the dog, in that the traffic department is dictating to the sales department, all in the name of saving some shipping dollars, though I pay the same price per unit no matter what. It makes my blood boil on a regular basis.

You must be a "Ditch Pickle" dealer?

 

[TFucili]

You must be a "Ditch Pickle" dealer?

That would be correct, sir!

 

[EDankievitch]

Just to Jump in here I was at PortJeff Ram yesterday they have two Diesel 1500's sitting on the lot. Guys the truck is real it's here!

 

[deeselfitter]

That would be correct, sir!

At the risk of sounding stupid.......what is a ditch pickle? Ya get out of touch when you live on an island in the middle of the atlantic ocean.

 

[Joseph Donnelly]

We will have a technical talk on the 1500 diesel at May Madness and may have one of them there.

 

[TFucili]

At the risk of sounding stupid.......what is a ditch pickle? Ya get out of touch when you live on an island in the middle of the atlantic ocean.

Not stupid at all. Condensed: It starts with the term "ditch banging", meaning riding a snowmobile in let's say a bar-ditch along a road, generally at a high rate of speed and you tend to get tossed around by uneven terrain or debris beneath the snow, thus banging around. Now, take that premise and add in a signature corporate green snowmobile, and it is now a "Ditch Pickle".

 

[deeselfitter]

Not stupid at all. Condensed: It starts with the term "ditch banging", meaning riding a snowmobile in let's say a bar-ditch along a road, generally at a high rate of speed and you tend to get tossed around by uneven terrain or debris beneath the snow, thus banging around. Now, take that premise and add in a signature corporate green snowmobile, and it is now a "Ditch Pickle".

Ten Roger......i am there now
Thanks