maschinenbau wrote:Fueled by Caffeine wrote: I miss those days. Miss the business but not the company.As relatively new hire, what else don't you miss about the company? Besides sticky turbos, of course.
I don't miss the constant drum beat for everyone to be a 6S blackbelt..
Fueled by Caffeine wrote:maschinenbau wrote:I don't miss the constant drum beat for everyone to be a 6S blackbelt..Fueled by Caffeine wrote: I miss those days. Miss the business but not the company.As relatively new hire, what else don't you miss about the company? Besides sticky turbos, of course.
Luckily, that is no longer a requirement 
best news i've heard in a while.
In reply to edizzle89:
That is good news. I was tired of up and coming bbs coming down and stealing my work all the time.
I took one of these for a test drive today. Both of the ones on the lot had a factory 5th wheel and brake controller. It drove nice, but I didn't really get on it because I had the sales guy in tge back and my dad ridi g shotgun. We both liked it, but would probably pick an ecoboost Ford instead.
I drove it at the launch. Nice, well damped ride, towed 9,000 lbs. Car launches are sanitized, it's not the same as taking it home for a week and really trying to live with it, but seems like a nice truck. Personally, I love the quiet ride of a Ram with air suspension, but the Titan's got a lot of good features>
http://www.autos.ca/first-drives/first-drive-2016-nissan-titan-xd/?all=1
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Uoi95SBE2wM
Fred put one in a road runner.
Lesley wrote: Nice, well damped ride
That alone is enough to impress me. Every stock newer 1/2 ton I've driven has made think I'd be putting different shocks in it within a week if I bought one, they're all horrifically under-damped (especially in the rear) when empty.
My old man's '12 Silverado feels almost overdamped. The thing has a harsher ride than my aluminum frame road bike. Are the tires solid rubber?? His previous '05 Sierra felt exactly like what a truck should feel like, in my opinion. Smooth and comfortable, but deliberate and solid.
rslifkin wrote:Lesley wrote: Nice, well damped rideThat alone is enough to impress me. Every stock newer 1/2 ton I've driven has made think I'd be putting different shocks in it within a week if I bought one, they're all horrifically under-damped (especially in the rear) when empty.
Ford even showcases it in their ads! Every time the CGI F150 comes to a stop, it does a little wobble as if it's rolling on a set of blown shocks.
Fueled by Caffeine wrote:maschinenbau wrote:I don't miss the constant drum beat for everyone to be a 6S blackbelt..Fueled by Caffeine wrote: I miss those days. Miss the business but not the company.As relatively new hire, what else don't you miss about the company? Besides sticky turbos, of course.
I can jump on this train as somebody who left for greener pastures during the Great Exodus of 2015.
I don't miss having my entire career path defined by if I went to the same college as whoever was passing through as senior manager that month.
I do really miss the leftover cookies from whenever the sales guys would have a meeting.
maschinenbau wrote: My old man's '12 Silverado feels almost overdamped. The thing has a harsher ride than my aluminum frame road bike. Are the tires solid rubber?? His previous '05 Sierra felt exactly like what a truck should feel like, in my opinion. Smooth and comfortable, but deliberate and solid.
The 06 sierra we have came with the uber-crappy delco black shocks. Complete and utter rubbish. Truck would literally quiver over bumps unloaded. Replaced with the OE-bilsteins.... night and day. No quiver, no bounce. Should have done that YEARS ago.
In reply to Keith Tanner:
The '15+ do ride nice though.....but the BIL hasn't really loaded his down yet.
WOW Really Paul? wrote: In reply to Keith Tanner: The '15+ do ride nice though.....but the BIL hasn't really loaded his down yet.
I haven't gotten to drive one of the beer can trucks yet. The previous gen rode ok loaded up, but it was under-damped, bouncy and sloppy when empty.
In reply to rslifkin:
The new ones feel like you're driving a late Sport Trac.....they should since they weigh about the same.....lol
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