Redfour5
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I'm about to close a deal right now Nov 2023 15% incentive and I'm a long time Ram Truck owner, Renegade (getting traded) wife with a Cherokee. I research and scour details on CDJR vehicles.
The people AT DEALERSHIPS who order ought to often be shot. You can tell dealerships where the person who orders KNOWS what they are doing and not. I cannot believe how many are ordered without the trac lock limited slip differential. I mean like the majority of them on lots do NOT have lots of what I consider important things. Trac Lock is one of these imho. I guess if you live in a few places where it never rains or snows much you don't need it, but it is a basic safety feature...
Further, I also wanted Selec Trac (having had the auto 4WD/same thing on Ram 1500's) and a limited slip diff Trac Lock. It was almost impossible to find. I could order but don't like some of the changes on 24's and sure ain't gonna get the incentives on those till next November. I finally found a couple at a dealership who made sure ALL models had the trac lock at a minimum. You will find a few dealerships where it is obviously ordered as a standard...at least up here in Montana, but most dealerships and vehicles on lots don't have it and that goes right to the guy who orders them or maybe the general manager who tries to cut costs knowing most buyers won't know the difference.
I asked where I'm buying and the only place I could find with both Selec Trac and Trac Lock and the guy who did the orders, one was a Gladiator owner, but two knew his stuff under the hood on all the CDJR vehicles. Now you need to understand we live in the mountains, him in Idaho me in Montana but considering that he said he thought the LSD (Trac Lock) was an essential component and I agreed. He said Selec Lock essentially a front and back AWD gave you the best of both worlds. I pointed out in agreement my 2013 Ram 1500 that ONLY had the 4WD like most Gladiators. Simply escaping from the mailboxes in my neighborhood was a bear with their polished ice and snow and irregular surface... But my 2015 Ram 1500 had the limited slip and no problem at the mailboxes. My 2021 had the auto 4WD auto/Selec Trac and limited slip and it was awesome. We usually have a month to six week period in the spring and shorter period in the fall where our roads are blacktop interspersed with long areas with snow and ice. They do NOT plow our roads down to blacktop like back east. They plow down to about a couple of inches of slushy snow and you deal... It's a PITA reaching down and turning 4WD on and off... Selec Trac does it by itself.
Being retired, researching is my thing and a generalization I've learned is that if you are looking and you find a dealer where most if not all of them have at least Trac Lock, you know you gotta a dealership where the person who orders is pretty good at it if his general manager lets him... Most general managers don't know either so don't interfere, but a few micromanage everything. Just depends.
The people AT DEALERSHIPS who order ought to often be shot. You can tell dealerships where the person who orders KNOWS what they are doing and not. I cannot believe how many are ordered without the trac lock limited slip differential. I mean like the majority of them on lots do NOT have lots of what I consider important things. Trac Lock is one of these imho. I guess if you live in a few places where it never rains or snows much you don't need it, but it is a basic safety feature...
Further, I also wanted Selec Trac (having had the auto 4WD/same thing on Ram 1500's) and a limited slip diff Trac Lock. It was almost impossible to find. I could order but don't like some of the changes on 24's and sure ain't gonna get the incentives on those till next November. I finally found a couple at a dealership who made sure ALL models had the trac lock at a minimum. You will find a few dealerships where it is obviously ordered as a standard...at least up here in Montana, but most dealerships and vehicles on lots don't have it and that goes right to the guy who orders them or maybe the general manager who tries to cut costs knowing most buyers won't know the difference.
I asked where I'm buying and the only place I could find with both Selec Trac and Trac Lock and the guy who did the orders, one was a Gladiator owner, but two knew his stuff under the hood on all the CDJR vehicles. Now you need to understand we live in the mountains, him in Idaho me in Montana but considering that he said he thought the LSD (Trac Lock) was an essential component and I agreed. He said Selec Lock essentially a front and back AWD gave you the best of both worlds. I pointed out in agreement my 2013 Ram 1500 that ONLY had the 4WD like most Gladiators. Simply escaping from the mailboxes in my neighborhood was a bear with their polished ice and snow and irregular surface... But my 2015 Ram 1500 had the limited slip and no problem at the mailboxes. My 2021 had the auto 4WD auto/Selec Trac and limited slip and it was awesome. We usually have a month to six week period in the spring and shorter period in the fall where our roads are blacktop interspersed with long areas with snow and ice. They do NOT plow our roads down to blacktop like back east. They plow down to about a couple of inches of slushy snow and you deal... It's a PITA reaching down and turning 4WD on and off... Selec Trac does it by itself.
Being retired, researching is my thing and a generalization I've learned is that if you are looking and you find a dealer where most if not all of them have at least Trac Lock, you know you gotta a dealership where the person who orders is pretty good at it if his general manager lets him... Most general managers don't know either so don't interfere, but a few micromanage everything. Just depends.
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