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Has anybody else worked on your truck? Installed a battery or ?? The last time, I had mine into the dealer... and never will again... idiots didn't latch the hood properly. I know this because I left there & went up the highway ramp... about the time I hit 50 the F %$# n hood flew up. Bent the hinges all to crap. Their guy put a hand on the fender & used brute strength to get the hinges to close so I could drive it back. And I found the dent from his hand in my fender after. The dealer lied like a bastard & blamed it on as sticky catch & warenteed it. So Chrysler paid for new hinges. But it never hung on on me before or after... they just greased the damn latch. My truck was not included in the recall. Back to the story... I later found the stock airbox had been leaned on and broken... and concealed. I super glued it & still have it. Bastards. I have a long list of shops that'll never see any of my vehicles again. Sooo if somebody else worked on your truck, they might have bumped your filter, denting it...

Mine started out to haul horses to re-enactments (gooseneck horse trailer) but the focus was one annual trip. I got rid on my fifth wheel Scamper Camper before I took the Chevy C30 off the road... with it's hitch. Now we are using a tag-a-long toy hauler with WDH... for an anual trip. Other than that, mainly dump runs & other minor tasks that could be done with a sissy truck.

Anybody got less than I do on my 01.5? I'm right around 70,000 miles.

Yes, indeed. A buddy crunched the back of his quad-cab (no rear doors) turning around his horse trailer with living quarters. It's very wide. I'm too afraid of JINKS to say more! If it was not going to be used often... a magnet mount could be used. I sure could have used one when I clipped a parked car with the toyhauler a couple of years ago. The truck fit but when I turned, the trailer turned inside me, of course. And the trailer was widerto start with. The trailer was high enough that the trailer body was over the car nose... but there is a heavy steel member in front of the axles. Police had to be called & the unfortunate incident put to the insurance company. The owner of the other car was unpleasant to deal with. I got a citation out of it. The correct decision would have been to waited for a spotter. About every crunch could have been avoided with a spotter.

They ought to be installed in the rear tail lights. LOL! I've managed to back into low items that I couldn't see... both sides on different occasions. The taillights were easy to replace but there's small dents that I need to get fixed... when I get the rust fixed. I'm pretty good hooking up with the tennis balls on a wand... but then I dont have a cap or camper back there. The tennis balls are better than my old stick through the V & judge from the mark on the gate. Only complaint is the wand is not quite tall enough, must be on the bumper... rather than on the actualy Reese insert.

I'm trying to pist IMG of my spring set but it won't take. Second try.

I was surprize how few spring leaves there are in my 01 Dodge 8800gvw compared to my old 9000gvw 79 Chevy C30 which had a dozen leaves & stilll rode stiff.

Are you really sure you even need airbags? I have a hidden hitch, right over the rear axle (where it was predrilled for.. my gooseneck expert who built my C30 hitch wanted it an inch in front of the axle centerline but I could do that). My googeneck horse trailer has the axles under the horses, way way back so very high weight on the hitch... towed like a dream. (A ***** to crank it off only.) But I'm a 8800 GVW truck.

My OEM 265/75 x16 were Michilin LTX & I got 14 years out of them... still legal tread but only 65,000. Mostly light miles. These oughtto last the rest of my natural lifetime. LOL! (If not, I'll come back to haunt Mr Cooper)

I stayed with 265/75s when I bought tires last fall... I like the way they look on my truck. Admittedly, I don't tow a lot but when I do, I have the 4.10 ratio disease as well. I know it's not recommended to tow in OD but I can't live with the screamin engine. So... I compromise... I tow in OD where it's easy going. Down hill & flat. Up hill I slow down & drop out of OD. The problem is little bumps in the roads where it's a judgement call... typically I'll run into them before down shifting. I can't say I recommend this but I feel it's what I have to do.

Interesting discussion. I've not paid much attention to tires. I recall my old stock trailer had ST tires. The expensive horse trailer I still have has bias LT tires... the maker said they had too many failures of ST radials (back then). My toy hauler came with mis-matched ST radial tires, a stack of tire reciepts from the tires that had failed... and a destroyed inner fender which I had to reconstruct to keep the mice out. I don't know how heavy loaded they ran or how fast, of course. I rarely use the Toy Hauler but am concerned about the tires... The don't appear dry rotted & I have to tow easy anyway. I replaced the dry rotted GY ST205/75R15 Marathon tires on my well used enclosed trailer... My front end guy sold me Commodore tires in the same size, saying he's had the best luck with them. I guess we will find out.

I had a warped Rear disc (with drum parking brake of course). Chased it for over a year. Dealer couldn't find it. My regular shop couldn't find it & I stopped going there. Took it somewhere else, explained the situation, found it first try. It wasn't always like that. It was intermittant because I don't like to use the brakes hard... If I plan my maneuvers right, I barely need brakes... so the rears weren't taking up most of the time. But when they did, it chattered.

My 4" SS kit included a polished 6" tip. Looks like above, just dirtier. I wouldn't have paid extra for it but it's on there.

From my brief reading these kits include sheilds that answer my concerns about uncontrolled / improperly controlled bright light. I can get behind a proper upgrade.

That really sorks! Please STOP before you bust something else! (Some days are like that.) Long ago in a previous life... To turn my stock trailer in the driveway, had to come up the left side & hang a tight U turn with the trailer on... Then get straight & back the trailer along side the garage. Tight turns scuff the trailer wheels in opposite directions. I realize I have a flat on the front driver's tire. I jack it up, get it off & get it fixed. Next day I come back to put it on, I put my hand on the back tire & that's now flat too. During the winter, we'd had to get the horses shod in the driveway instead of out back. The sharp pointed shoe nails had been picked up by the scuffing tires... in the directions the tires were scuffed. The farrier didn't believe me but I always used a magnet to recover the tire flatteners after that. And we never flattened car or truck tires & we parked right there... but we didn't scuff those tires because we came straight in.

I'm not sure just when it happened... I have scratches that start low on the passengers door & run up in an arch & down the back door, gouged nearly through the moulding. The good news is the stratches are only in the paint. The moulding will need to be replaced... just plastic. Don't know if I rubbed a snowback with something in it (as the rear tire ran up on a bump). Or more likely a hunk of Tractor Trailer rubber / belt that's littering the roads... that was thrown up when I drove over it. (I park with the driver's door to the house so don't often walk all the way around.) As I read the insurances, if a tree falls on your car... that's comprehensive insurance. If a tree falls on the road & you run into it, that's collision. So 100 deductable on the comprehensive does not apply... it won't make the 1000 deductable on the collision. I am so bummed... (Do you youngsters even know what that means?)

Since I have issues with wandering... ought to start with tire pressure.

What front pressure are you running?

This could be a really great deal... depending on what you can buy it for... Either way you'll feel better having asked the questions before making a move rather than after.

If you know who did the work & they are willing to show you what needed to be done, I'd feel a lot better about it. Will the shop stand behind their work? The purchase is still a fair amount of money... but should be less than a comparable new car. In the end, can you take the risk?

Your dollars are like votes... votes to keep this site open for us to use & learn. EVEN though I have to (usually) pay someone to do the actual work, knowing what I want done is invalueable. I am glad to chip in my share.

I used to donate $6-7 a month on another (non-truck) forum to remove the Google ad banner. I decided to shift that money here. ($7 x 12 = $84) I like the new donation process so I can review when I last donated & how much...

Like he said!

I'm sorry but this just doesn't sound right. If the damage was so minor, it would not have been "totalled" requiring a salavage title. For such serious damage, surely the airbags would have deployed. Are the airbags still in it? Is it the right VIN in the hidden places? This just stinks of shady dealings. TGTBT I don't think I would have the patience to wade through this but maybe a car fax & trace the original owner & insurance claims. I can practically guarentee that VW will not honor warentee on a "totalled" vehicle. You could probably purchase an aftermarket "warentee".

A very long time ago, I had a 76 Datsun P/U... back when the gas station attendants pumped your gas. The little truck would randomly shut off. I switched to a glass bowl filter thinking it might be water condensing in the fuel (right on the coast). I found when it stalled, the only thing that would get it restarted was to swap out the filter element. I collected the gas in a sealed glass jar but never found any water. I could even dry out the filters in the shop (and the rubber gaskets which would swell but return when dried out). Eventually I dropped the tank & fished out the cardboard seals from dry gas from the tank. F*ckin gas jockeys. Conclusion: opening the filter broke the vacume & allowed the cardboard to float away from the pickup tube. Not sure this applies the problem in this thread.