Trading down :booo: from an early 07 Dodge to a ??
 

I'm having to get rid of my early 07 Dodge 2500 4x4 QuadCab due to a change in our income. My wife had our first baby and we've decided that she'll stay home with her. She used to work in the oil industry making six figures. I'm a small business owner, a metal fab shop to be exact. So I have to have a truck that'll pull. I usually drag around a 30' gooseneck flatbed.

So that brings me to my question. I've found an '01 Dodge 2500 QuadCab Long bed 4x4 Auto for about 10K and an '04 Chevy DMax 2500 4 door 4x4 auto short bed for about 18K. Tell me which you like and how they'll compare both with each other and with my current truck. I've never driven a DMax.

If i were you , i would get an early 98 12V cummins you get the later second gen interior and the 12V cummins engine with the best P7100 pump .

Your better off with a 94-98 than a 98.5-2002

fine a 12v plus they are cheap to mod

The Duramax is easy to get decent power, too. Exhaust and tuner. Crew cab would be REAL handy with a child seat. Nice ride. Is it an early or late 2004? If it is an early (LB7) it should have 200K Mile injector warranty.

stick with the cummins get late nodel 12 valve,with the manual trans.

The crew cab will make it alot easier getting a carseat i an out, but the ext. cab will be ok too. If your looking at it solely from a work truck perspective get the dodge. D-Maxs can be made really fast but it doesnt have the work truck grunt of the Cummins. Take the extra 8k you would spend on the D-Max and beef up the transmission, bump up the power a bit, and address the flaws in the Vp-44 pump

buy my truck

Yeah, tell us more about your '07