Used 1996 Dodge Ram Pickup 2500 Consumer Reviews
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400k and still rolling (slt automatic dodge 2500 diesel)
allllchemist, 08/18/2011
1995 Dodge Ram Pickup 2500 Laramie SLT 2dr Extended Cab LB (5.9L 8cyl naturally aspired 5M)
13 of 13 people found this review helpful
Bought the truck used from an auction. previous owner had hauled trailers all over new england in snow/ice (salt corrosion) for 280k miles with jake brake and after-market overdrive. bad tps and fuel pump had led him to dump it. got some flakey overdrive issues when cold (showed up when a transmission shop removed the overdrive unit and cut the ground wire)... 125k miles later she's still "busting a hump," moves right along at 2200 rpms, 15 mpg. Not going to win any races, but every time I sit down to calculate the cost of replacing her, she makes dollars and sense. I'll keep her another year and see how she acts. I'd like to take the cummins out and drop it in another vehicle.
I LOVE MY TRUCK
Horsegal, 04/13/2003
1996 Dodge Ram Pickup 2500 Laramie SLT 2dr Extended Cab 4WD LB (5.9L 8cyl naturally aspired 5M)
5 of 5 people found this review helpful
I love my truck. I just wish that when I wanted to buy a new one that they would offer the suicide doors again. Those 4 full doors are so geeky. For peets sake its a truck. I get pretty fair gas milage but it is a gas engine. I still get about 14 which is good. The mileage never changes when I haul the horse trailer either. I like that. The truck hardly gives when you hook it up.
excellent truck
hiebert, 03/03/2003
1995 Dodge Ram Pickup 2500 Laramie SLT 2dr Extended Cab 4WD LB (5.9L 8cyl naturally aspired 5M)
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
the deisel dodge is a great puller.
Would buy it again
nadinemarie, 01/30/2009
1996 Dodge Ram Pickup 2500 ST 2dr Extended Cab LB (5.9L 8cyl naturally aspired 5M)
6 of 7 people found this review helpful
We used it as a work horse the first ten years, hauling furniture, sawdust, rocks and etc., but putting very few miles on it as used car for out of town trips. Then with only 20,000 miles and a dozen years old decided to put a camper on it's back. Performs beautifully with a 8.5 camper fully loaded. Makes hills with little effort, as much as diesels do, if we do not lose RPM behind a truck. Never had it in the repair garage until this year, other than normal maintenance. This year have to have A/C fan fixed. Averaging 12-14 mpg with camper.
light use, reliable, V10 5-spd
Dan Patterson, 08/24/2020
updated 08/30/2022
1995 Dodge Ram Pickup 2500 Laramie SLT 2dr Extended Cab 4WD LB (5.9L 8cyl naturally aspired 5M)
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
Bought used in 2000 with 40k, 120k miles now. Rarely tow. V10 gets worse mileage than a diesel but is a lot quieter. It runs fine, no engine or trans problems. Uses a teensy bit of coolant- not worth fixing. Replaced radiator and A/C clutch way back. I'm in northern California so the only rust is on top where the sun has burned off the paint (driving it around Death Valley in August a few years back probably didn't help). Put in LED headlight bulbs- massive improvement. Added cable-actuated selector for 4WD since the vacuum-actuated system is unreliable. Also added a backup camera and a home-made cupholder because the factory one is so absurdly bad. The truck is handy for when I need a truck. The rest of the time it sits out back under a lemon tree with the battery hooked to a trickle charger. Book value is almost nothing, so it's not worth selling. At this rate it will easily last another 20 years.
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