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The 2019 Ram 1500's have as many, if not more, electronic gremlins. The guys I work with that have 2019 Ram 1500's have been making weekly trips to the dealer for backup camera glitches, touchscreens going black randomly, stalling issues, etc.

The 14-18 trucks were the first trucks to have a standard backup camera. What do you expect? If you buy a phone with the a brand exclusive feature available across the entire product line from cheapest to most expensive, it will almost always have a lower quality than the rest of the competitors that don't offer it standard until years later. Even now, 2019+ Ram 1500's with an HD backup camera are glitchy at best and at worst don't work at all.

Yet you're so pathetic you devote your life to hanging out on a GM truck forum? If you are "done with GM" then GTFO.

The computer shouldn't have any problem tracking fuel use as long as the MAF sensor and fuel sustem sensors are accurate. And during deceleration when DFCO is active and the instant fuel economy reaches 99, there's no fuel being burned at all. The engine is spinning via the TCC. The Fast Lane Truck has done a lot of real world highway fuel economy tests and for the most part, the GM computer has been surprisingly accurate. Any computer estimate that's routinely within 1 MPG of the hand calculated number is good enough for me.

That's a case of finding the right GVWR for your needs. Half-tons come with different configurations with different GVWR's. A 7,000+ lb GVWR 1/2-ton will have a firmer ride than a 1/2-ton with a 6,500 lb GVWR. Ram makes full-size trucks with mid-size truck capabilities, which is why they get compliments for the car-like ride quality.

Toyota's are infamous for oil line crimps failing. Yet I'm assuming you would probably own a Toyota without worrying about an oil line failing, right? So why worry about 4 or 5 oil lines out of hundreds of thousands of trucks on the road? https://sites.google.com/site/toyotav6oillinescandal/ If this thread had hundreds of trucks with oil line failures, that would be cause for concern. 4 or 5 is nothing.

Ceramic tint helps reject infared and UV energy from coming through the window. Regular tints are designed to only block visible light. I paid $160 for llumar CTX 50% on the front windows. Just that was enough to bring temps down. I wish I would have had the rear windows done too.

Try to make an exhaust clip. Fly-by and cold start videos are the best kind to capture.

Haven't had this issue either. Anybody know the RPO code for the HD camera?

Yeah the Duratracs are a noisier tread design for a mud-AT hybrid tire IMO. Make sure you rotate them frequently. I just posted the straight pipe videos to show a cheaper option for the guys with dual rear exhaust. Sounds like there isn't much of an exhaust volume increase without removing the flapper valve and going with at least a Flowmaster 40 or even FlowFX muffler. I thought the FlowFX sounded pretty good. There are also mesh screens on the section of of exhaust piping near the spare tire. There are 3 screens on each of the two dual exhaust pipes. This one sounds good IMO. I like that it's a SI/DO with new new tailpipes and works with existing bumper exhaust ports.

Once you read just what exactly was going on, it makes total sense. There's a good description here: https://gm-techlink.com/?p=11127 It's a clarification in the comment section from "Ed.": "The base stock of old fluid (19355656) has the ability to attract low levels of moisture, which can cause degradation of the coefficient of friction of the fluid. The new fluid (19417577) has a new GTL (Gas to Liquid) base stock that is able to tolerate more moisture. Shuddering transmissions and torque converters have been recovered with the new fluid. New transmission fluid tests have been developed due this issue to prevent it from occurring with new transmission fluids."

That's standard operating procedure for every manufacturer these days. I know a guy that's driving around his brand new F-150 with the nastiest case of piston slap I've ever heard and only because Ford instructed the dealer to tell them it's "normal". Same with another guy's brand new 2018 Tacoma that has one of the loudest howling rear diffs I've ever heard. It gets louder and louder and Toyota tells him it's "normal". Same with his 6-speed automatic transmission which slams into gear, nearly stalls when taking off at a stop light, and shudders around town. He said he bought a Toyota for the quality. I haven't seen it and Toyota clearly doesn't back it. It's a bad trend in the auto industry. That being said. Half a dozen oil cooler lines with bad crimps is T-I-N-Y amount when hundreds of thousands of these trucks are on the road. These external oil lines fail on EVERY brand of vehicle. As I pointed out before, Toyotas were infamous for oil line failures. Literally hundreds of thousands of vehicles were affected and hundreds of cars destroyed because of it. At this point, the oil lines on the 2019 GM trucks is something to be aware of, but not to worry yourself about. If you see oil residue building up on the outside of the lines, take it to the dealer and have them replaced. They generally don't blow off out of the blue, but instead oil seeps out from the crimped area in the time leading up to a failure.

Here's another muffler delete

Sport mode definitely makes a very noticeable difference. I just wish it would stay in sport every time the truck's power is cycled. It's still an awesome addition to the trucks.

There are literally a handful of failures out of hundreds of thousands of these truck that have been sold. There are just as many Toyota Tundras with bad rear main seals being sold these days as there are oil cooler line failures so far.

At least one guy posted a video of his RST with a muffler delete:

Haha every 70-100k? Maybe back before Ford went all-in on turbocharged engines and cheapened up the vacuum system that IWE's require to function. The IWE's in the 2015+ F-150's have had major problems that continues on today. I know guys that have had the IWE's in their brand new F-150 fail half a dozen times in less than 2 years. Ford still hasn't done anything about it. Didn't really expect them to, though. I mean, they STILL have cam phaser and timing chain problems after 15+ years of designing DOHC engines.... https://www.fordraptorforum.com/threads/cam-phaser-engine-failure-reports.64826/

Unfortunately it happens all the time with all manufacturers. Half of all 3rd gen Tacomas have a howling rear diff that Toyota hasn't done much to address. At this point they basically deny it's an issue. Their front diffs have had vibration issues for years and they haven't done anything to address the issue. Ford has had a garbage 4WD system ever since they went to their IWE front hubs. I know a guy with a 2016 F-150 that's had his 4WD grind up IWE's several times. "Chevy sad" is going to to find out pretty quickly how much Raptors like to eat IWE's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOKbCeNztNk

I heard that the factory U-bolts are really a one time use kind of thing. When I changed the blocks on my K2 truck, I bought a set of Zone grade 8 u-bolts. Much beefier and made me feel better about the taller blocks.

The amount of change just going from a 14 to 19 was big enough. The jump from an 07 to a 19 has to be HUUUGE. I like the truck. What % tint did you go with on the front?

I don't have access to the pdf for this but it's something to go on if you have "squeaks" or "squawks".

Yeah 400 watts isn't much. Pump for an air mattress, phone charger, power tool battery charger, small radio, mini air compressor, etc. Don't plan on running a shop vac or microwave off of it.

There are 4-5 million Gen V engines on the road today. All of them with AFM or DFM.

In all fairness his 2.7 outperforms the 4.3 in power and capability.

Take it to the dealer. They can loosen the bolts and adjust the alignment. Pretty simple fix and very common issue across every single brand of trucks.