Used Dodge Ram 1500 for Sale

This is the first full sized truck that I have owned. I got a white one which I find to be very clean in appearance and the body style gives it a very sleek and sexy look. It looks, sounds and runs very clean.

Overall very satisfied with the truck. The hemi engine isn't the most fuel efficient vehicle out there, but the ample power on tap makes up for it. Over 200k miles on it, with no so called major repairs. That brings me to the negative parts of the review. Ease and cost of repairs. I have always been a DIY person and take care of my own repair work. Thank goodness. Part prices are on average on the high end of the scale. But it's the hard repairs that get me to cursing, and it seems to be that the engineers that designed some things never had to work on it.

If you've ever owned a Dodge, then you know their transmissions aren't anything to write home about. Mine went out at 60,000 then again at 200,000. The last time I replaced it a cooler was added to the system to try to get more life out of it. This was also one of the years of the Epic Plenum Gasket Fail which led to Chrysler's cheap software fix, the Death Flash, that retarded timing and ultimately the quality of my ride. Basically the use of two different types of metal fried my plenum gasket, which then allowed oil and air into places it did not belong. Instead of recalling the trucks and replacing the affected parts with correctly engineered ones, Dodge's fix was to simply "flash" the truck's computer with the retarded timing software upgrade when I took it to the dealer, without telling me, which resulted in a massive loss of power, especially accelerating up hills, and overall just made my truck run like junk. 1995 was the first year of the new body style for Dodge pickups, and so despite her mechanical failures, she sure looks lean and mean. I do think Dodge has upper hand as far as design goes in pickups. Being a short wheel base, she is incredibly responsive in the curves, almost too much so for the inexperienced driver. Care should be taken until you get a feel for the truck.