I just bought a 2021 RAM 75th Anniversary PW. I do think the brakes suck, even when compared to other trucks, but my main and only gripe right now is that I paid for Lane Sense/Lane Departure (it came in one of the three packages I got), but I'm starting to wonder what the hell I paid for.
We just rented a Ford Explorer to go up to the mountains, and that son of a b*tch would stay in the lane, even around mountain turns, as long as I had two fingers on the steering wheel (I usually underhand grab it at about 8 o'clock with my hand resting on top of my left leg).
The Power Wagon lane sense seems to be fairly intermittent. It stays in the lane when it wants to, but I'll be a monkey's butt if I'm going to trust it! I'd say it works less than 50% of the time. Half the time it will let me exit the lane whether my hands are on the steering wheel or not, the other half of the time it keeps me in the lane; I don't get it.
What's even more dangerous is that through long sweeping turns it keeps me in the lane until about halfway through it and then it will just give up and let me steer right off the road if I wasn't paying attention.
We also have a 2016 Porsche Macan Turbo that's a little bit on the other extreme, almost dangerous. It keeps you in the lane so well that unless you use the turn signal you might smack into the vehicle in front of you trying to go around it at higher speeds; this sucker pulls you right back in the lane you are trying to get out of, but like I said, only when you don't use the turn signal first.
I've driven other vehicles with the lane sense/lane departure, and so far the 2021 Power Wagon is the worst one at remaining in the lane yet; definitely makes me wonder what I paid extra for...
Any words of advice/wisdom/personal experience to add to this?
Guess what I'm really asking is if you guys think this is normal, or something I should be taking the vehicle in for to get covered under warranty?
I only have about 1100 miles on it so far, and love every single aspect of it other than this and the crappy gas mileage (but in all fairness, I knew about the crappy gas mileage going into it lol).
Thanks again!
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We just rented a Ford Explorer to go up to the mountains, and that son of a b*tch would stay in the lane, even around mountain turns, as long as I had two fingers on the steering wheel (I usually underhand grab it at about 8 o'clock with my hand resting on top of my left leg).
The Power Wagon lane sense seems to be fairly intermittent. It stays in the lane when it wants to, but I'll be a monkey's butt if I'm going to trust it! I'd say it works less than 50% of the time. Half the time it will let me exit the lane whether my hands are on the steering wheel or not, the other half of the time it keeps me in the lane; I don't get it.
What's even more dangerous is that through long sweeping turns it keeps me in the lane until about halfway through it and then it will just give up and let me steer right off the road if I wasn't paying attention.
We also have a 2016 Porsche Macan Turbo that's a little bit on the other extreme, almost dangerous. It keeps you in the lane so well that unless you use the turn signal you might smack into the vehicle in front of you trying to go around it at higher speeds; this sucker pulls you right back in the lane you are trying to get out of, but like I said, only when you don't use the turn signal first.
I've driven other vehicles with the lane sense/lane departure, and so far the 2021 Power Wagon is the worst one at remaining in the lane yet; definitely makes me wonder what I paid extra for...
Any words of advice/wisdom/personal experience to add to this?
Guess what I'm really asking is if you guys think this is normal, or something I should be taking the vehicle in for to get covered under warranty?
I only have about 1100 miles on it so far, and love every single aspect of it other than this and the crappy gas mileage (but in all fairness, I knew about the crappy gas mileage going into it lol).
Thanks again!
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