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pretty badTypical Repair Cost:
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Average Mileage:
4,163 miles
Total Complaints:
4 complaints
Most common solutions:
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engine problem
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2009Jun 05
Ram 1500 Sport 5.7L
- Automatic transmission
- 3,600 miles
While I was turning left in my driveway barely moving, it stalled. It did re-start.
2007Oct 20
Ram 1500 Quad Cab 4.2L
- Automatic transmission
- 30 miles
This truck has been a nightmare since Day One. It stalled driving it home the first night, and the dealership refused to take it back. Been in shop every month for weeks at a time and Chrysler says it never has an error code so they can't fix it and even accused me of lying about the many problems. The seat is crooked and no pad in cushion, unratchets while driving [but never on the techs!], transmission, engine, brakes, lights, you name it, it has gone off or acted up on this piece of engineering crapola. This is what I asked the second dealer I took it to to fix and they ran over 200 miles in it and said nothing was wrong. I get in to drive it home and the brakes faded, the transmission bucked at 37 mph really loudly and with a metallic hard clanking! and engine gave a shudder as if to stall, so I blasted the A/C to keep the RPM's up enough, which may or may not guarantee it will stay on--it has even stalled with lights, radio, A/C all on...and restarted itself within 3 seconds all by itself! Freaky!! (1) Still having problems with transmission slipping off & on, getting into gear hard & clunky & very loud metallic sound getting into gear; sometimes it sits and waits before it will go into gear, and sometimes I have to shift back to park, and start over to get into gear—this does whether cold or hot. Makes an ‘eek’ sound when slipping. Clunks up shifting and downshifting [automatic truck!]
(2)The engine will act like it is going to die, has a thrill run as if to stall, I have to turn on A/C quickly, runs so rough most of the times. Again: Stalled Sept 29, 2008.
(3) Didn’t start at first in Kmart parking lot near my home 05/22/08 8:40 AM. Dash lights all blinking off and on briefly, then blank. No engine turn-over. I fiddled with the buttons on the remote key, reinserted key and tried multiple times and it finally started. Has done this often. Last week it did it three times. Does not seem to matter if it is cold or warm. Horn blows sometimes for no reason.The defective KARR Alarm was removed, for which I was never reimbursed! So I wonder why the horn blows sometimes by itself. I was watching TV inside my house and heard it blow in the driveway! It stopped when I fiddled with my key. Weird.
(4) Ignition cranks intermittently extended periods of time. Please fix before it catches on fire. Replace switch again, if you guys even actually did anything as it was noted how service notes are exact duplicates as if copy and pasted, even as to error codes and tech who worked. Please actually DO something, my safety and my family’s is at stake.
(5) Seat still at an angle: hurts me, not safe---does not adjust well, ratchet doesn’t stay sometimes, has even un-done while Driving!
the plastic thrown-part supporting the seat cushion collapses, digs into sciatic nerve, very painful.
(6) Brakes will buck, brake, and sometimes I have to pump them before they brake well. Like, if I am having to stop at the traffic light, the brakes will act like they work, then stop braking, buck with a bumping sound, I pump, they brake—also experience brake Fade..not good, not safe. Intermittently occurs..
(7) The display computer at top near sunshades does not work half the time. (the one that tells gas mileage, temp, N S E W…) Two weeks ago when it was 99`F weather, it said it was 60`F ! Doesn’t register correct compass readings many times. Example: Friday when it was 92 degrees outside, it said it was 76 degrees.
(8) Radio still acts up with static and off & on station capture. This truck is possessed by the devil. [kidding] It IS the poorest engineering I have ever seen in a vehicle. It is scary and nondependable.
2007Jun 03
(reported on)Ram 1500 5.7 Hemi
- Automatic transmission
- 9,321 miles
I picked the truck up from the Dodge Dealership in Barrie on Friday June 1. The truck was in for warranty repair: the engine would shut down, and only after putting the vehicle in park then initiating a startup did the vehicle start back up. This happened twice, the first time on the highway in stop and go traffic (at 15,000Km's on the odometer), the second at a Drive-Thru. The time that it happened at the drive thru (at 23,000Km's on the odometer), approximately two weeks ago, the 'Check Engine', and a warning light for the Electronic Throttle Control stayed illuminated after the vehicle was restarted and did not go out. The vehicle was immediately taken to the closest dealership.
Leaving the dealership on Friday, I was holding a constant 60Km/hr when the engine suddenly lost power, as though my foot had fallen off of the accelerator; which it hadn't. Later that evening, driving down the 10th Sideroad, with the cruise control set at 90Km/Hr. The truck suddenly kicked out of cruise, the indicator light also went out. Although I was only doing 90 Km/hr, the truck shuddered when the cruise control suddenly kicked out. I did not manually disengage the cruise-control, nor did I hit the brake pedal.
On the morning of Sunday June 3rd, when I turned the key in the ignition, all of the status lights came on, all of them, including the individual lights for "P R N D 3 2 1" and no lights shut off, nor could I get the starter to engage, nor could I hear any sound whatsoever from the engine or any component attached thereto. For each subsequent attempt to start the truck, I turned the key completely to the off position, removed the key then reinserted. On my second attempt to start the truck the Brake light and ABS warning lights stayed on again the truck would not start and no sound from the engine compartment, on my third attempt the ABS and brake warning lights stayed on again, again nothing from the engine. The truck finally started on the fourth attempt, though no warning lights remained illuminated after starting, which from my experience with this vehicle, is normal.
In each event that I managed to glimpse the tachometer, it was indicating RPM well below 1000 RPM.
It is my opinion that there is a serious fault with the electrical system in this vehicle. The Dodge dealer in Barrie replaced a MAP sensor in the engine, I believe the problem is more then just a MAP sensor.
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2009Jun 08
Ram 1500 Sport 5.7L
Mileage 3,700. Three days after first occurrence, I was turning into a parking lot and the engine stalled. Maybe a coincidence, but I was turning left, same as the first time. This time I was moving fast enough to coast, no power steering or power brakes with other traffic. No accident, but very un-nerving.
Kip I.
Mt Gilead, Ohio, USA
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