My son and daughter in law traded thier Maxum as it was " sudgested " they needed a USA truck to do their sales calls in. It was 4 door and got about 16 to19 MPG driving around. Didn't use it for a live stock trailer but when pulling a 32' camper got about 12 to 15 MPG
They got the dodge as it was $5,000.00 under ford or chevy. Body is so thin when my daughter in law stumbled in the garage her elbow put a dent in the door of the truck. Then she opened the other door into the mirror on my son's motorcycle and put a dent in that door. Elbow was fine and mirror was fine but the metal is so thin if you look at it crossways you will get a dent!
Driving empty this dodge gets 12 MPG on a good day and pulling the same camper it gets 6 MPG. Last winter she got stuck in the snow and when she took it back to the dealer complaining the 4X4 did not work she was told it was her fault! The dealer told her the new trucks shut off all "non essential " functions if they are not hooked up to a dealers computer every 6 months to do a maintainence scan! ( truck was 7 months old and did not have enough miles on it to require an oil change yet )
She was told for $65.00 they would do the scan or for $68.00 they would do an oil change, lube, and tire rotation and the scan would be included! She spent the $68.00 but I feel dodge should be sued over this type of action! They are going to keep it for 2 years ( about another 15 months) and they will then be like me and never have another dodge!
Now you have to give dodge credit as it is a very pretty truck! And it does seem to have plenty of power to pull the camper. But with milage this bad the $5,000.00 they saved will be gone in no time!
We had a 1999 3/4 ton Dodge with the cummins diesel that we put over 300,000 miles on with 2 transmissions, 3 injector pumps and several other normal issues and for what we did with it I felt it was a good truck. But we no longer work pick-ups that hard ( now have 4 semi tractors and put multiple hitches on the back of one ) so the only pick-ups we have are my 1996 S-10 and the 2010 dodge. My son keeps telling me to upgrade the S-10 but is has over 327,000 miles and still gets in the upper teens for MPG and no one would give me more than junk price for it so I just keep driving it!