2005 4x4 quad cab 3500 diesel mileage?

XLR8R

XLR8R

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It is an auto, appears stock...any guess as to the highway fuel consumption and the city too? It is a Cummins, no idea what gear ratio.....

thanks!
 
My friend down here has an '04 2500 QC 4X4 CTD Ram and it got about 20-22mpg when I drove it up tp PA and back last summer. From what I've heard, that's about average.
 
I've used an '03 QC 3500 W/ single rear wheels on occasion. Took it to the Twin Cities to haul the 66 Newport home on a heavy steel deck trailer and got 17 mpg for the round trip running 75-80 mph on the interstate.

Kick ass trucks with gobs of power, unfortunately the higher cost of diesel tends to offset the better MPG you get over gas. Do a lot of towing or heavy hauling, it's the must have rig. :cool:
 
Actually the ride quality is quite nice, especially considering it's a 1 ton truck.


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It should have 3.73 gears. My ex wife's 05 3500 had a six speed, so I can't verify the mileage of an auto, but hers got 20-22 empty, and 15-18 with around 10K hooked up, and the truck had no mods whatsoever. Oddly, my 06 2wd doesn't get any better mileage.
 
It is being brought over by rjr in a few minutes..... :) We will see what it is like. :D
 
Yea, the newer ones ride better than the older body style (like my '01). Here's a pic of the one I was talking about earlier.;)
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Turns out to be a 2500, strong, rode pretty well....smelled seriously of cigarettes.... :(
Tranny felt, well....weird? shifted strangely and I know this is a weak point on them. Dunno. gotta think. :D
 
Rear gears could be either 3.73 or 4.10. It has a 48re transmission, which is the strongest one put in a dodge diesel pickup to that point. I don't know what you mean by shifted strangely-it could be normal for these. They don't shift terribly firmly, in large part due to the too-loose factory torque converter. Or, something could be wrong with it, I dunno. I have good reason to believe that the 48re's are actually MORE reliable than the offerings from ford and gm. A transmission guru on another board was over a bunch of transmission shops, so one day he got bored and pulled the records on how many ford torqshifts and gm allison 1000's they had fixed in diesel pickups, vs how many 48re's. The results were that there were considerably more gm's and fords failing at that time than dodge autos. Please note that this does NOT apply to the earlier dodge transmissions.

Best advice I can give you is to let someone who knows those trucks drive it or at least ride in it to see what they think about the transmission.
 
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