Any dually owners regret buying one..

Any dually owners regret buying one and wish that they had a single rear wheel?

 

Only when it's time for new tires. We have two duallys here on the ranch and I really like them. The big fenders look cool in the mirror, but for important stuff they help keep trailers under control better and it's a good feeling knowing your rear tires aren't close to their maximum carrying weight, which means less chance of a pesky (and dangerous) blowout. Keep good tires on one though, a rear blowout and fiberglass fenders don't get along. :doah:

Sometimes I kind of wish I would have bought a 3500 Dually.

Honestly, I don't think they are needed unless you are going to be pulling a heavy goosenecks and/or a slide in with the trail rig on a bumper pull trailer.

 

I was a little nervous at first about buying a dually, and using it as a DD around town, but it has worked out very well so far. I like the look of the DRW trucks with a long bed better. As far as towing, its great to know the extra security of 2 more tires, and extra payload capacity is there. No regrets at all here.

 

No regrets whatsoever up to this point. It's the only way to go if you are towing heavy, or want major control on the road with heavy loads.

I do regret the whole "Time for new tires" thing. It does get a little expensive.

Rob

 

This one is my first Dually and I would never go back to a single wheel for towing. Although it can be a pain in town and with parking but then again thats what comuters are for.

 

I don't regret it one bit. waytogo

 

The reason I bought a dually was for a 10,000# quad trailer and future purchase of a slide-in camper.

No regrats. Glad I bought a dually. For daily communting (short) and parking its not bad. Just had to the back of the parking lot. Everytime I tow it makes it all worthwhile.

Also nothing like meeting with attorneys or taking clients to lunch (I am a CPA) and parking my dually by BMWs and Mercedes Benzs. The funny thing is I spent more then they did.

And chicks dig duallys.

Elliot
2005 Dodge Ram 3500 Dually, Cummings, fully loaded, Black on Black
1979 1-Ton K-5 Blazer
Quads

 

Yeah, just mulling everything over, the Wife really wants a dually, I'm just thinking about when I have to go down town and park etc. and the little less milage. Also, if my "was a Blazer" is stuck down a trail I might be able to get a little closer if I had a single wheel, I dunno.
Where's the pics, I love black duallys. imp:

 

and a little vintage....

 

Vintage heck!! That looks a lot like my dually. I love the acceleration of my big block crew...funny to leave a bunch of people at the light. Sure milage sucks but its just for towing. I think if you bought one and never hauled anything you might be disappointed...and silly.

 

Have her drive one and try parking it etc. I've had three duallys and think its easier to park one of my dump trucks than my Dually. Mainly as I can see the rear corner of the dump truck in my mirror. Where with a dually, the fender hides the real corner of the pickup. As I said try it as YMMV. But if you need the capacity then get the Dually. waytogo

 

StevO, I doubt you will beable to get ANY towrig were your "X-K5" is on a trail. Plus that is what yer wheelin buddies are for, to get you back to the trail head waytogo
I don't regret getting a single rear wheel, so far I have no dreams of "Damn, should have gotten a dullie!" I pick up my K5 Hauller this week and my maiden voyage is at the end of this month. I got the 8' bed fer all my crap and someday(some year :doah: ) a pop-up slide in camper.... I shal find out then for sure if SRW is enough towrig fer my needs

 

The black '05 Ram Dually really does look great. Sorry I don't have any pictures. No digital camera yet. You can see what it looks like on the Dodge website. Several of the pictures are of black trucks. If you get black truck make sure you get the sport package which gives you black bumpers, black grill and a few other things I cannot remember.

I have no regrets getting the dually.

 

I don't need the capicity as I will only tow a 8,000 pound trailer 15 times a year or so, I understand about the corners, I used to drive a 20 foot C-60 and could paralel park that think like a sports car, just like anything I guess, you get use to it.

 

Steve,

Get the dually, don't go with the single wheel. You can never go back to a dually once you get the single axle.

It's not that big of a pain around town, and mileage, if you are worrying about mileage, don't get a tow rig. Around town they aren't bad, but towing heavy weight, it's not real pretty.

You can always get you "broke down trail rig to the trailer" trust me I know rotfl .

The dually is the deal, sooner or later you will thinking about campers, and or slide in campers, and then it's towing the blazer with the camper in the truck, and it's much easier with the camper in the back with a dually.

Did you not say that the wife was looking at horse trailers, horses?? If this is the case, you might as well buck up cowboy, cause you ant $hit towing horses without a dually!

The fact of the matter is it's just more stable towing, and much more stable with all the weight on the back, using gooseneck or bumper pull, dually is the way to go, besides Black dually do look really cool.

I don't even think about towing my setup anywere, this weekend we are thinking of draging the blazer/camper/trailer to Rocky Point Mexico, 500 miles round trip, hell it's nothing for a dually, the turbo won't even get hot by the time I make it down there.

And in the hills, or the mountain grades with all the switchbacks etc.. it's really the ticket, very little body roll and very stable.

Some air bags, some minor Bombs, and you got a rocket ship.

Since I bought the dually, I have decided that I will never, and I mean never own another gas tow rig every. Diesel dually is the ticket for me, once you try a diesel, you will never go back.

Besides, mine a Dodge! Makes it even better!!

Good luck in you decision.

Rob

 

I definantly would agree there, hauling blazers is one thing because they won't move, cows and horses like to shift around and give you a little "shake." I might be getting into the cattle business soon myself and if I do choose to go that route financially I'll be looking for an '01-02 Black sport Dodge dually 4x4 HO 6 spd myself.

Regardless, I think there was a little over exaduration about the two extra tires. An SRW will be fine for towing any trail rig on a bumper pull or gooseneck. I would just watch it with a slide in camper and trailer, thats getting into dually territory. Regardless, an SRW with a good "E" rated tire ( like the Michelins that come standard on all Dodge HD pickups) can hold up enough weight for almost any trailer load.

I'll be pulling a 20ft flatbed tripple axle gooseneck with my K5 on it, I'm not worried. With a 10% tongue weight thats only about 1,200lbs that will be put into my pickup itself, just enough to smooth out the ride.

 

im in the opposite boat. i wish i had bought another dually when i traded mine in. i needed/wanted a short bed though and nobody has figured out a quad cab short box dually would sell like hot cakes. i will be buying a B&W custom bed down the road a ways and adding in a 2 speed rear axle with dualls at the time. should make for a killer tow rig.
grant

 

If a crew cab short bed dually would sell like hotcakes, why does Ford sell so few of them? There's one I see by my house all the time, personally I think it looks pretty retarded. I don't see the point, all that capacity but a small bed that can't take advantage of it. A gooseneck or 5th wheel doesn't work as well because more weight is on the rear axle, it seems like a really limited use kind of thing.

 

My O2 for what its worth...

I love my dually and the only regret I have (as was previously stated) is buying tire time. Other than that I have no complaints on how it tows, handles, looks. However if youve never owned a dually then you may want to consider some things to see if they are an issue.

1) Forget fitting in just about any drive through at the bank or fast food joints.
2) Parking spaces arent nearly as big as they used to be (or my driving is getting worse).
3) If you tow something small-ish like an empty open car trailer you cant see the trailer past the rear fenders when backing up. With a car on the trailer or an enclosed trailer this isnt an issue though.
4) Dont lower a dually or you'll have to explain to every other person that you can tow whatever you want since there are air bags on the truck (dont ask how I know this ).