2017 Ram 3500 Overview, Reviews, Ratings & Specs

I have a 2017 ram 3500 dually diesel in service 1 year and 8 months now with 55,000 kms,you can read all the wonderful reviews when their trucks are near new, I loved this truck but it has a junk front end mainly ball joints gone at 25,000 and wearing outside of tires ,3 rd right front tire now at 55,000 and all stock and not gravel driven, I am not an unusual case I found out that they all have front end junk problems, tires and ball joints will be a constant problem and cost you thousands over the years , also warranty dosnt cover tire wear or alignment , at this rate I will be on my 5 th right front tire and 3 rd set of ball joints by 80,000 kms if Dodge dosnt fix the problem.......oh by the way my old 98 Cummins with nearly 200,000 kms still has original ball joints and tires last and wear evenly , and it starts in cold weather not plugged in and has been trouble free for 22 yrs running FANTASTIC

Mine is junk 80000 miles front end is gone replaced to lift pumps in the tank doing it on your back sucks

So after waiting the 4+ months for it to be built and arrive, I was pretty happy with the truck until I took it on the first trip with about 1000 miles on it in Jan of 18 on a 7* windy snowy day and the def froze up and put me in limp mode about 120 miles from home and about 120 miles to the closest ram dealer, it went into limp mode about 5 miles short of that dealer and after an exhausting 6 hour delay there they replaced the def pump and fluid and I was back on my way- no other issues sans poor fuel mileage (sub 10mpg average on the 4500 mile trip), but not even 2 weeks after being back home, same issue- warning light of see dealer now limp mode in 150 miles and sure enough it had to go in and get yet another new pump as the def was once again frozen into a solid block of ice and apparently took out the pump, then not even a month later yet again for a 3rd time in less than 5700 miles of ownership. No thanks- emmissions bs has ruined the diesel engine. Since then I have had to remove the grid heater and clean it out twice and replace the infamous bolt that is prone to breaking and destroying the engine once and the mileage has always been low, like super bad for a diesel. Coming from a 7.3L diesel that was an almost identally equipped truck that did the same work and I routinely got over 20mpg and lifetime average on that was 18.6 including all towing miles vs this ram now at only 16k miles and at best I can squeeze out 17.5-18 mpg empty driving no more than the speed limit and towing it is still 10ish with a lifetime average currently of only 15. I wish I had bought a gasser!!! Sadly no gasser come with a manual transmission