You Know You Are Old When

[Topzide]

It's quite annoying. I've been looking at my Ram steering wheel and I believe the buttons would fit swapped side to side.

The problem would be the wiring harness. I've been in the steering wheel of my 2014 3500 and don't think the way the harness is made that you could swap them. Connectors are similar, but you could leave the harness in place and just switch the pads. The pads are the same size, but the mount points are different! I had to replace one of the pads that quit working.

 

[WinterDeere]

Speaking of vehicles, I'm about to hop into the RAM to take my daughter to an evening activity. First words out of my mouth are going to be "Play album: ... and Justice for All."

It's going to drive her nuts... she hates metal. Not all technology is bad.

 

[newbury]

It makes road farming much safer.

I've only done "road farming" once.
I was towing a Honda Civic on a U-Haul tow dolly from northern Va. to Mississippi. Using my dually F350. Got about 50 miles from my destination, wheel fell off the tow dolly. Hardly felt it in the truck cab. Plowed about 50 yards of asphalt.

 

[bigtiller]

I have heard farmers say...
I go "road farming" every time I leave the house.
I drive slow so I can check out the neighbors corn/beans.
If his is doing better than mine, I might think about switching next year.

 

[jjeff]

When I was younger road farming had a completely different meaning to me. Id "harvest" other people's free or discarded intentional or unintentional deep sixed junk, I occasionally envisioned a use for off the side of the road.got pretty bad when I plowed for the county and non plowing off time responsibility was to pick up junk off the side of the free way I acquired quite the collection of tools, trailer straps, both semi and consumer, chain, a few binders, semi mudflaps even a old damaged sign board trailer. Lucky I had quite the arsenal of strobes on those trucks. Saw the remains of the remnants of the worst fatal traffic accident I've ever seen when an individual in a full size pick up stopped in the middle of freeway to pick something up and was rear ended by a 80k pound semi. Pushed the truck box thru the cab to the dash. They temporarily stored that truck in our county garage. It was grizzly with lots of blood and and few human remnants still left in truck for investigation I guess.

 

[jjeff]

When I was younger road farming had a completely different meaning to me. Id "harvest" other people's free or discarded intentional or unintentional deep sixed junk, I occasionally envisioned a use for off the side of the road.got pretty bad when I plowed for the county and non plowing off time responsibility was to pick up junk off the side of the free way I acquired quite the collection of tools, trailer straps for both semi trailers and consumer, chain a few binders, semi mudflaps even a old damaged sign board trailer. Lucky I had quite the arsenal of strobes on those trucks. Saw the remains of the remnants of the worst fatal accident I've ever seen when an individual in a full size truck stopped in the middle of freeway to pick something up and was rear ended by a 80k pound semi. Pushed the truck box thru the cab to the dash. They temporarily stored that truck in our county garage. It was grizzly with lots of blood and and few human remnants still left in truck for investigation I guess.

 

[Oaktree]

I don't mind the second or two it takes to disable it, as much as the $1500 I spent on adding that option I didn't really want, just because it was part of some option group that contained one other option I did want.

That's been a peeve of mine for MANY years, decades even...options that are only available as part of a package, where to get one feature you want you also have to get a bunch of stuff you don't.

What I find irritating is the placement of the various controls. Especially the cruise controls. Both of our current vehicles have the adaptive cruise which I actually like quite abit.

I rarely use cruise control, but both of my vehicles have radio control buttons on the back of the steering wheel...volume up/down on the right, station tuning/track # on the left. I typically drive left-handed, and am forever bumping the track buttons on the wheel, changing either the station I'm listening to or whatever's playing on the flashdrive.
I really have to rig up some sort of guard to prevent accidentally hitting them.

Inconsistent placement of controls has long been a complaint of mine. Back when I traveled for work and drove a lot of rental cars, it'd sometimes take 5 minutes to figure out where they "hid" various functions. Onetime had some toyota product, and actually had to go in and ask someone at the agency where the headlight switch was (it was on the turn signal stalk). It was late at night, and I never would have thought to look there. Same car required you to manually lock the trunk lid, it didn't lock automatically. Didn't know about that little quirk either.

 

[oldballs]

One of my kids told me...."Dad, I'm glad that you didn't buy a new truck. You'd go nuts trying to operate it" Now, that makes me happy with my 1999 Super Duty XL.
Cheers,
Mike

 

[WinterDeere]

One of my kids told me...."Dad, I'm glad that you didn't buy a new truck. You'd go nuts trying to operate it" Now, that makes me happy with my 1999 Super Duty XL.

If rust weren't such a problem where we live, I'd still be driving my 2005 Dodge Ram with manual transmission. I think that truck cost me all of $26k new, and was the best truck I ever owned... until the door corners and fenders started rusting badly enough it was deemed "cosmetically unacceptable".

Now my 2015 is rusting inside the bed, in the corners. It's already bulging out the spray-on bedliner.

 

[scootr]

When I was young we lived in a rural place without trash service so I made a trailer from an old pickup and put plywood sides on it. When It filled up I would go to the dump. My then wife would accuse me of coming home with more than I left with... not my fault people were throwing good stuff away