Kind of a four month report on the new truck:
All in all, I like it. I like the look, it drives wonderful, extremely quiet and smooth vehicle. Performance is very good. Though it's not one of the "Supertrucks", 0-60 in under 7 seconds is pretty dang good for a vehicle this heavy. I remember when a 9 second 0-60 was hot rod numbers, now it's pretty common. The automatic transmissions with more gears are undoubtedly contributing to this; I have noticed that my RAM (8-speed) always seems to be in the right gear and under acceleration it stays in it's power band. Some vehicles even have 10-speed trannies now.
The early 5th gen RAMs had a problem with weak A/Cs; this appears to have been fixed, the A/C is cold and powerful.
I had a lot of trouble with the UConnect system at first; kept losing Sat Radio, dropping presets, and the steering wheel controls wouldn't work at times. They did a major firmware update and that seems to have fixed most of the issues, but I still find it to be clunky and buggy. Even the people at the dealer felt that too many systems were reliant on the UConnect system, it controls almost everything. Perhaps a case where we've taken technology too far?
The auto-start/stop is a bit annoying, but I guess that's the case for all vehicles that have this. The eTorque system helps somewhat with this, and of course it can be disabled but that has to be done every time.
I only have about 2300 mile son it and it's almost all around town, and I sit and idle at times while on the phone. Average mileage is 11-12, which is probably not bad for how I've been driving it. I've made a couple of trips to Conyers, and it wasn't much to go on but hwy mileage seemed much better. It was a dream on the road; powerful and very nimble to be a truck. Brakes are very powerful, the rotors on it are huge to be a half-ton truck.
I've had a few vehicles with air conditioned seats, and most really didn't work well. They do in this one. The leather is perforated and you can actually feel the cool air coming out of the seat.
This truck has the emergency automatic braking system. Though it can be a bit annoying, it does work. When I was on I-20 in traffic, I was looking at my phone and a car in front of me hit the brakes. My truck beeped loudly and hit the brakes as well. But the rear braking can be aggravating; when carrying cargo with the tailgate down, it sees that as an object and will slam on the brakes when backing up if you don't disable it. I probably looked like a dummy while backing up in the Home Depot parking lot.
As we all know, Chrysler (now Stellantis) has had it's share of quality issues in past years. This vehicle gives a feeling of much improved quality as compared to their older vehicles. Stellantis seems to be a much better ran company, so maybe they can continue to get better. Yeah, I'm not thrilled that its a global corporation, but that seems to be where they are all going nowadays. Even GM and Ford are somewhat global now.
Like most extended cab trucks these days, the cabs have gotten bigger and the beds smaller. The bed on this one is only 5'6". Admittedly, that is pretty short when using it to haul lumber and stuff. I do like all the room in the back seat, but I find myself missing the 6.5' bed. But that's not just a RAM issue, it's how they are all going.
I have pulled my job trailer once with it and it did great! You can feel the electric motor assist when taking off with the trailer. I seriously had to keep reminding myself that it was back there!
I like the truck. It's not perfect, but none are. I think I'll be glad I bought it.