Dodge vs Chevy
Dodge Diesel VS. Chevrolet Diesel
You’re going to the dealership to buy a new diesel truck but you don’t know what brand to get. You’ve been thinking about it, doing a little research and you’ve come to a “brick wall”.
You can’t decide whether to get the Dodge 2500 Cummins or the Chevrolet 2500 Duramax.
Well my advice would be to get them both, because they are both GREAT trucks. Each of them is going to last you a long time and give you close to no problems. But……. Since you may not be able to afford both or have any use for both vehicles, you need to pick one. This paper will hopefully help make up your mind. The Dodge 2500 diesel is the fastest selling truck on the market, mainly because of its
Cummins B-series engine. The Cummins B-series engine was introduced to Dodge in 1989. It marked the first time a genuine medium-duty diesel engine had been used in a light-duty truck as the 2500 Ram. Sure, other pickups had diesels, but none of them had an engine with a gross
vehicle weight rating anywhere near the Cummins B-series 66,000 pound limit. Although it has a great engine, the body is known to be made cheaper than Ford or Chevy. A lot of people have problems with the dash cracking down the middle, paint fading and chipping easier, and when getting in wrecks, the frame breaking when it should have more of a springy characteristic. Also
Dodge uses cheap axils, which are the heavy iron bars going from the frame to the wheels.
Because Dodge uses cheap axils, the front-wheel alignment gets unaligned easier and can cause, what some people call “the Death Wobble”. The Death wobble is when you are driving at speeds above 60 miles an hour and all of a sudden the alignment goes out of line and both front wheels start shaking back and forth sometimes causing you to lose control of the vehicle.
Although its flaws may sound bad, the Cummins engine over weighs the cons by a long shot. It has more
You’re going to the dealership to buy a new diesel truck but you don’t know what brand to get. You’ve been thinking about it, doing a little research and you’ve come to a “brick wall”.
You can’t decide whether to get the Dodge 2500 Cummins or the Chevrolet 2500 Duramax.
Well my advice would be to get them both, because they are both GREAT trucks. Each of them is going to last you a long time and give you close to no problems. But……. Since you may not be able to afford both or have any use for both vehicles, you need to pick one. This paper will hopefully help make up your mind. The Dodge 2500 diesel is the fastest selling truck on the market, mainly because of its
Cummins B-series engine. The Cummins B-series engine was introduced to Dodge in 1989. It marked the first time a genuine medium-duty diesel engine had been used in a light-duty truck as the 2500 Ram. Sure, other pickups had diesels, but none of them had an engine with a gross
vehicle weight rating anywhere near the Cummins B-series 66,000 pound limit. Although it has a great engine, the body is known to be made cheaper than Ford or Chevy. A lot of people have problems with the dash cracking down the middle, paint fading and chipping easier, and when getting in wrecks, the frame breaking when it should have more of a springy characteristic. Also
Dodge uses cheap axils, which are the heavy iron bars going from the frame to the wheels.
Because Dodge uses cheap axils, the front-wheel alignment gets unaligned easier and can cause, what some people call “the Death Wobble”. The Death wobble is when you are driving at speeds above 60 miles an hour and all of a sudden the alignment goes out of line and both front wheels start shaking back and forth sometimes causing you to lose control of the vehicle.
Although its flaws may sound bad, the Cummins engine over weighs the cons by a long shot. It has more