Blog - Page 9 of 33 - Dunn Ram Trucks

You have a front end estimate in your hand and a truck with a lot of kilometres on it. How to weigh the repair against what the truck is worth, what else tends to come due at the same age, and when fixing it is clearly right.

If your truck drifts in the lane and you are correcting all the way to Winnipeg, the steering has play somewhere. What causes wander, how gravel and frost heaves speed it up, and the order a shop checks it.

Looked after, the Ram 1500 air suspension goes through a Manitoba winter without drama. Here is what the system gives you out here, the five minute owner walk around, and what our techs check at the seasonal changeover.

The Jeep Wrangler is one of the strongest value holders on the road, and iSeeCars data shows why. Here is what actually moves a Wrangler appraisal, from doors and roof to lift kits, and what we check on every Manitoba trade.

MPI pays your truck's fair market value in a write off. Your loan does not care what that number is. Here is how the gap actually opens in Manitoba, what WALKAWAY Total Loss Protection does, and when the honest answer is no. From a Portage la Prairie Ram dealer.

The numbers everyone quotes for Cummins engine life trace back to forums and parts retailers, not to Cummins. Here is the honest read from what comes through a dealer lot: the engine is rarely what ends a high kilometre diesel, and what actually decides it. From a Portage la Prairie Ram dealer.

A replacement fob is not a part you buy and use. It carries a transponder that has to be registered to your vehicle's immobilizer, and since 2019 a security gateway controls who is allowed to do that. Why losing your last key is a different job than losing a spare, and what to bring. From a Portage la Prairie Ram and Jeep dealer.

Rotors almost never warp. The shudder you feel under braking is uneven pad material on the rotor face, and lateral runout specs run as low as two thousandths of an inch. How to tell a brake problem from a tire problem, and why a truck that sits on gravel gets it worst. From a Portage la Prairie Ram and Jeep dealer.

Mopar puts the cabin air filter at roughly 15,000 to 20,000 miles, and around 6,000 to 10,000 for dusty, rural or off road driving. Where it sits behind your glove box, the symptoms owners misread as a failing blower, and why one harvest can fill a filter that would last a city driver two years. From a Portage la Prairie Ram and Jeep dealer.

Which used Ram 1500 years are worth the money, where the generation line sits, which engines age well, and what we look at hardest on a Manitoba trade. From a Portage la Prairie Ram dealer.