I noticed a small crack almost a half a year ago but from the drivers seat, it looked like a hairline crack. Everyone who sat in the passenger seat would always tell me "you have a crack in your dashboard" It wasn't till i was cleaning the dash that I noticed how big it really was. I just figured the truck is 6 plus years old and this sh*t happens to trucks. This is my third Dodge and I like the trucks a lot but will reconsider any future purchases from Dodge. So I guess i am stuck with a cracked dashboard for the life of the truck because I am not spending $1,500 bucks to fix it. Maybe I'll put a little doyllie on it to cover the crack since It obviously cant stand up to much more than normal wear.

I cannot believe how many others have this dash cracking problem, I thought it was just cause I'm in Arizona and our heat caused it. I found a website named Raybuck.com that lists the dash replacement parts for like 99 dollars for the small piece closest to the windshield, thats the one I will need. This is way cheaper than a dealership will charge for the part alone, you will have to install yourself but I am willing to take that on , especially after reading how many of you got nowhere with dodge replacing it. Again its " Raybuck.com " then search for your model...etc.

i love my truck like alot of other people i have seen on here i am really pissed about this i pay my hard earn money to pay for a vehicle to advertise to people my dodge and they won't even fix a problem like the dash. I have always been a Chevy fan and now i like dodge but if the don't fix my dash i won't buy another dodge ever. hey dodge people Obama gives you money so you can sell more vehicles and keep your head above water won't you get your head out of your @#$ and fix all the @#$ dashs that people are complaining about.

first crack appeared about a year and a half ago. i heard a loud crack while driving down the interstate and after i stopped i noticed a crack in the dash on the right hand side. since then i have had four more cracks develop and the top dash pad is lifting up. i take good care of my vehicles and even use window shades when not in use. this should not be happening. i have a 1999 Chevy Tahoe with 240,000 on it and it doesn't have one crack in the dash. dodge should step up to the plate and fix this issue. dodge is doing a lot of advertising about how good their vehicles are but unresolved issues like this do not back up their claim. unless dodge makes this right, my next vehicle will not be a dodge.

WOW! I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WITH THIS CRAPP! MY DASH IS SHOT. TWO HUGE CRACKS; ONE IN THE MIDDLE FROM THE WINDSHIELD TO THE VENT AND THEN SOME, THE OTHER ON THE PASSENGER SIDE STARTING FROM THE TRAY AND PROCEEDING ALMOST TO THE GLOVE BOX. I'M LOOKING FOR IT TO JUST COMPLETELY FALL APART ANY DAY NOW. I HAVEN'T CONTACTED DODGE YET, BUT I FEEL CERTAIN JUDGING FROM THE REST OF THE COMPLAINTS, THEY'LL DO NOTHING. I ALSO OWN A '97 FORD AND IT HAS NONE OF THESE ISSUES. IF DODGE DOESN'T COME AROUND, MY NEXT FULL SIZE TRUCK WON'T BE A DODGE!

I got in my truck this morning and noticed a crack in the dash on the right side in front of the passenger seat. It goes front the front of the dash straight back to the middle. I couldn't believe it, then once I started looking closer there was 2 more cracks in the middle up by the windshield. My truck only has just over 31,000 miles and still looks new. I'm the only owner so I know it has always been taken care of. How could the dash just crack like this for no reason? Dodge needs to do something about this! This is now the only defect on my truck and it's driving me crazy. I had no idea this was a common issue until I seen this site when I was looking online to find a replacement and to see how much this was going to cost me. Has anyone found a good fix for this? Also, has anyone had there's replaced, if so, how much can I expect to pay?

I was on the internet tonight looking for used dashboards to replace mine myself, but then i found this site listing familiar sounding complaints, now im discouraged...My story is the same as everyone else s, i had no idea, it all started with a small crack in the center area closest to where the windshield meets the dash and a week later my dash has several bigger cracks from one end to the other...I'm not interested in ever owning another Chrysler product if i'm stuck with the costs...I can barely afford anything these days and i don't have even $500.00 lying around to put towards a new dash that will probably end up the in the same condition...i'm also interested in a class-action if anyone is monitoring these posts...please get in contact with me...spread the word, dodge needs to address this problem...

I have gotten so disgusted with the fact that Dodge doesn't want to take any responsibility towards correcting this issue. Was it just a batch of bad plastic that affected the dash boards in hundreds or thousands of trucks(my truck is a Ram 1500 quad cab 4 door)? Were the casting molds dimensions for the plastic dash or the area the plastic dash mounts to out of tolerance allowing time and stress to cause the plastic to prematurely fail. I think it was a batch of bad plastic or possibly no, or inadequate UV protection in the windshield for the design. Probably bad plastic or problems during the molding process with the dash manufacturer and Dodge should go after the dash manufacturer to have the dash replaced.

Major impact on the physical appearance of an otherwise good looking truck. Impacts resell value by as much as a fender bender, wreck with a less than perfect repair, or bad paint job or dents and dings. Affects owner's pride in ownership.

Impacts present owners and future buyers from the perspective that Dodge does not place significant value on problems created by them or their component manufacturer's.

I thought first crack would relieve the stress on the dash and stop growing. I was wrong.

Took by local dealer. Local dealer, service manager admitted Dodge had experienced problems with dash cracking in some trucks. Did not offer to contact Dodge area service rep. I figured from his comments that Dodge had already blown off any impact this would have with customer happiness and was not going to act on this problem on a recall or per customer basis.

Did I mention that I have a 1995 F150 and a 1992 F250 and that the plastic dash on neither of those trucks are cracked or cracking.

More later several more cracks have appeared over the last few years and have grown from the windshield to the face of the dashboard. with no sign of the crack arresting its spread.