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Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 5:37 pm
by BlkWgn
Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 6:20 pm
by Kemp_
Looks like the media guys don't know how to spool out a winch
Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 6:23 pm
by Cactus Red
Seriously - a winch, rocks to hook up to, lockers to get it going after the winch frees it, and it's still stuck. Bravo...
Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 9:39 pm
by TwinStick
Maybe now they will make the swaybar electronics, locker plugs, wheel bearings, idler pully's, tensioner & fuse boxes a little more waterproof !!! lol

Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 9:48 pm
by vanished
I'm supposed to go wheeling sat - thanks for the reminder twinstick to stay out of the water!

Back on topic, check out 4g general section on DT for additional pics. It got much worse... Lol
Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 9:51 pm
by 05PWrockcrawler
Too late that thing is toast with that much salt water in it. Wow! Not sure what they were thinking or trying to do. Sure there was some major ass chewings if not someone getting fired.
Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 10:22 pm
by 04Ram2500Hemi
This is why you never by used. Not everything shows up on Carfax.
Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 12:35 am
by cruz
05PWrockcrawler wrote: Not sure what they were thinking or trying to do.
Maybe they were trying to wash off that gawdawful paint scheme.
Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 12:49 am
by BlkWgn
If you follow the link on the story there are more pics
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Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 11:58 am
by verdesardog
what a bunch of guys from the lower end of the gene pool......

Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 12:30 pm
by 04Ram2500Hemi
This could have been a cool commercial if they had a snorkel on the truck and it got out.
Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 5:23 pm
by verdesardog
04Ram2500Hemi wrote:This could have been a cool commercial if they had a snorkel on the truck and it got out.
If those idiots couldn't get it out without a snorkel, a snorkel wouldn't have helped....it was stuck before the tide came in.

Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 5:39 pm
by 04Ram2500Hemi
verdesardog wrote:04Ram2500Hemi wrote:This could have been a cool commercial if they had a snorkel on the truck and it got out.
If those idiots couldn't get it out without a snorkel, a snorkel wouldn't have helped....it was stuck before the tide came in.

I'm aware- read my post again. I said it would have been cool if they would have showed it getting out with a snorkel. I'm aware the snorkel wouldn't have helped them any, I just thought it would be cool.
I'm still pissed that not one moron even tried to use the winch. What the hell did they think that big ass hook on the front of the truck was for?
Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 6:22 pm
by flattire
Maybe...the lockers wouldn't lock
and...
the winch wouldn't rewind after pulled out.

Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 8:39 pm
by wagonlvr
04Ram2500Hemi wrote:verdesardog wrote:04Ram2500Hemi wrote:This could have been a cool commercial if they had a snorkel on the truck and it got out.
If those idiots couldn't get it out without a snorkel, a snorkel wouldn't have helped....it was stuck before the tide came in.

I'm aware- read my post again. I said it would have been cool if they would have showed it getting out with a snorkel. I'm aware the snorkel wouldn't have helped them any, I just thought it would be cool.
I'm still pissed that not one moron even tried to use the winch. What the hell did they think that big ass hook on the front of the truck was for?
A really big fish?

Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 10:41 pm
by RustyPW

That's the only thing I can think of right now.

Morons!
Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 11:16 pm
by PWRider
flattire wrote:Maybe...the lockers wouldn't lock
and...
the winch wouldn't rewind after pulled out.

PR vehicle may easily be missing winch remote. Would it last long in salty water not sure either? There is really not much in front of them to hook up to. Lockers are useless in wet sand. Only hope is to air down very low and pray you can crawl out. Loose wet send in those tide pool acts like a suction cup.
Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 1:18 am
by LKelly
One of the people who was supposedly there mentioned that the winch had been installed at the last minute, and wasn't actually wired to the battery...which wouldn't be a big surprise, as the vehicles used in photo shoots are often cobbled together. I know that our testing department used to get pre-production vehicles all the time that were missing major components, or had parts from several model years patched together.
Heck, it wouldn't surprise me if half the "power wagons" we see in commercials are actually regular 2500s that were mocked up to look like PWs.
Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 1:05 pm
by TwinStick
Yup,
Epic Fail !!!
Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 3:38 pm
by 04Ram2500Hemi
Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 12:15 am
by TwinStick
Haha !!

"Dodge Ram Prototype"--- must be the Aquaman edition. LOL

What color is that---aqua silver ? LOL

That may be a new option---the hot tub in the back. LOL

$150,000 prototype---maybe it has the new "upgraded front end" ? Maybe the reporters have this all wrong---this is just a new cost cutting way of salt spray testing ? LOL

does NOT approve of this new testing method !!!

Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 10:29 am
by myoung84
Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 2:26 pm
by Fireman78
I just read this story (as always I am late), but I found out they apparently left the Winch Remote in Detroit.

Re: Power Wagon Commercial goes bad
Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 12:40 am
by Glenn5995