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Old 03-04-2019, 01:22 PM
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lol ... Ok. Here is a picture taken when they were on their way to deliver the truck to me.
The day after I bought it I put about 400 miles on it on a trip to watch my grandson play soccer. The trip was in a cold, drizzly rain the whole way. Total miles per gallon over the length of the trip was about 30.6 mpg. That was traveling 75-80 mph on the interstate and about 30 miles of in-town driving.

Let me get the weather to cooperate and get the truck sparkly and I'll be glad to provide more pictures!
 

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Beautiful truck, great mpg. That was a good shakedown cruise, did you identify any issues at all?
 
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Old 03-05-2019, 06:59 AM
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Very nice. Keep us posted on mpg’s and your impressions,
 
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Old 03-05-2019, 11:21 PM
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The truck was fantastic on the road. There was only one thing that surprised me ... on the Interstate going into the wind, I noticed more wind noise from the moon roofs than I would have expected. It was coming from the rear pane. It wasn't very loud, but the truck is so quiet it kind of surprised me to hear the wind noise. I closed the cover to the moon roofs and the noise became non-existent. Very quiet. I'm not sure if there just will be some wind noise with a moon roof, or if I need to get it checked, or if I'm just being too picky since the truck was so quiet and obviously well-built. We'll see.
 
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I’m betting on the shark fin bring the noise now. Before, the low-profile antenna was a mere bump in the air flow. Now a rigid sail exists.
 
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Old 03-06-2019, 12:13 PM
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Ahh ... didn't think about that. That very well may be the issue. At least it goes away when I close the cover.
 
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Beautiful white truck. Enjoy it
 
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I just changed my lights and the grille


 
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That is nice! I especially like the grill. Where did you get it?
 
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That is nice! I especially like the grill. Where did you get it?
Thank you. I bought it on eBay with the Leds included
 
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Old 03-23-2019, 09:52 AM
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Great to hear the positive feedback. I think Five Start Tuning has some tunes out for this platform. Not sure if that is who you were referring to with the SCT #'s or if that was just a stock SCT programmer.
 
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Old 04-02-2019, 07:42 PM
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How about some updates from you 3.0L owners. Satisfied? Mileage reports? Power? Torque? Payload sticker numbers?
 
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Mine is still broke down. So, no, not happy.
 
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Mine is still broke down. So, no, not happy.
Well, Dude, DO TELL!!!!!
 
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Well, Dude, DO TELL!!!!!
There is a 259 post thread on another forum, very long read but has a number of photos and information all about the egr recall. Some of the photos show the truck without a cab and the engine disassembled. This should not be a problem on the newly assembled trucks but it was amazing the mechanics seem to be totally untrained on this new engine.

That thread is EGR recall
 


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