RAM TRX. Back with a vengeance.

Silly Rabbit said:
It's gonna be a mean ride.
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But its still a dodge. My friend has a '16 Ram Rebel and that thing is awful. The air suspension keeps leaking a few months after getting fixed, it eats through mufflers about once every 1.5/2 years and it has 16 spark plugs for a v8, with the back 2 against the firewall all but impossible to change.
 
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Brrr said:
But its still a dodge. My friend has a '16 Ram Rebel and that thing is awful. The air suspension keeps leaking a few months after getting fixed, it eats through mufflers about once every 1.5/2 years and it has 16 spark plugs for a v8, with the back 2 against the firewall all but impossible to change.
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I have one as well. So far all these years it's been a rock. The air suspensions are garbage in colder climates, just avoid it. Muffler thing I have no idea... they are stainless from factory, I know alot of guys with lots of miles and original muffler. Maybe your friend drives very short distances all the time? I know short drives is harder on exhaust then longer, the mositure sits. The plugs are a pain, but you can change them out with patience.
The sad thing is all the brands are building garbage today, planned obsolescence.
 
Silly Rabbit said:
The plugs are a pain, but you can change them out with patience.
The sad thing is all the brands are building garbage today, planned obsolescence.
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It also seems like they might be deliberately making things complicated so they get to charge extra during servicing and maintenance. Although I read that one of the new Mercedes models will have headlights that are held together with screws, so they can easily dismantle and replace components rather than replacing the whole headlight assembly.
 
Big Dave said:
It also seems like they might be deliberately making things complicated so they get to charge extra during servicing and maintenance.
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Yeah, I dunno. GM got accused of trying to keep people from changing their own headlights when they changed to Torx fasteners, but they had gone to Posidrive on a lot of fasteners before that (and at that time a Posidrive screwdriver was something you could only get on the Snap-On truck or someplace similar, in the same way it used to be really hard to get a Torx driver).

EDIT: I'm referring to the sealed beam days, when the headlight was held in from the front of the car by a bracket around the headlight.

The GM explanation was always that cam out was a problem on the assembly lines, and Posidrive was a modified Phillips that was supposed to reduce cam out, and Torx was the next step in that direction. I believed that for a long time...until I had to change a seatbelt in my 70's GM car, and it was held in with...a large Torx bolt. That was the only Torx fastener I ever saw on that car, and I had that car a long time, long enough to get into a lot of things on it. And this was certainly a large bolt that could have been a hex head, not like a headlight screw.

Which certainly made me think...they deliberately made that a Torx fastener to reduce the chance that anyone other than the dealer would mess with it. However, I don't think they are putting the spark plugs in hard to reach places just so you bring the car to the dealer, I think that's just a product of vehicle packaging and complexity these days.
 
I've had many trucks. Currently I'm on my 12th truck. Never understood the need for speed with trucks. I mean it's a truck. Not a sports car. Not that they should be underpowered but their intention or at least their intention should be hauling. The big 3 have ruined the pickup.
I guess it's all about demand. Most people that own pickups don't haul squat. They couldn't if they wanted to as the cab is bigger than the bed. They are overly expensive and laid out with luxury in mind and little concern for their intended purpose.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Yeah, I dunno. GM got accused of trying to keep people from changing their own headlights when they changed to Torx fasteners, but they had gone to Posidrive on a lot of fasteners before that (and at that time a Posidrive screwdriver was something you could only get on the Snap-On truck or someplace similar, in the same way it used to be really hard to get a Torx driver).

EDIT: I'm referring to the sealed beam days, when the headlight was held in from the front of the car by a bracket around the headlight.

The GM explanation was always that cam out was a problem on the assembly lines, and Posidrive was a modified Phillips that was supposed to reduce cam out, and Torx was the next step in that direction. I believed that for a long time...until I had to change a seatbelt in my 70's GM car, and it was held in with...a large Torx bolt. That was the only Torx fastener I ever saw on that car, and I had that car a long time, long enough to get into a lot of things on it. And this was certainly a large bolt that could have been a hex head, not like a headlight screw.

Which certainly made me think...they deliberately made that a Torx fastener to reduce the chance that anyone other than the dealer would mess with it. However, I don't think they are putting the spark plugs in hard to reach places just so you bring the car to the dealer, I think that's just a product of vehicle packaging and complexity these days.
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It made a difference, even if only slightly, when I discovered that all the screws on the FJ and Qashqai are JIS, Japanese Industrial Standard, and bought some JIS bits. They definitely grip the head better and reduce caming out. I have a full set of torx bits as well, and I have a set of security bits which have come in handy, I've also switched to security screws on my number plates, just to make it more likely someone else's plates will get stolen.
 
Big Dave said:
It made a difference, even if only slightly, when I discovered that all the screws on the FJ and Qashqai are JIS, Japanese Industrial Standard, and bought some JIS bits. They definitely grip the head better and reduce caming out. I have a full set of torx bits as well, and I have a set of security bits which have come in handy, I've also switched to security screws on my number plates, just to make it more likely someone else's plates will get stolen.
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Those JIS screws are the same idea as Pozidriv (I was spelling it wrong), a "better" Phillips head. It also took me a while to figure out that my Honda had JIS screws and I needed to get some screwdrivers for that. I'm trying to remember but I don't think the Pozidriv screwdrivers that I have worked right in the JIS screws .
 
Anyway, back on topic, the guys at TFL Truck hinted that RAM teased a street version of the TRX using a silhouette with headlights visible. I could see them doing this. The image is about 4 minutes in, followed by an AI image they created.


 
We need factory, lowered street trucks again. Hope it happens.


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