I own a 1999 2500 turbo diesel regular cab long bed 4WD. The dash board is almost gone - bezel is cracked & falling off. I have looked in a lot of pick u parts & on the internet for a used one thats not cracked seems to not exist! So if I want it fixed, I have to order it & have it shipped to my place of residence in Hawaii, it's around $500.00 for dash that won't crack & another 2 to 300.00 to have it shipped probably exceeds the value of the truck but what choice do you have?

I think dodge sucks for not addressing this problem because it has nothing to do with age or weather but everything to do with putting out an inferior product, knowing it & refusing to do anything about it. My next truck won't be a Dodge, that's for sure! If anyone has any fix ideas or if Dodge wants to ship me a new dashboard, hey, I'll put it in myself, ha ha! I won't hold my breath.

My Dodge has had several cracks in the dash for a few years. Today while driving, the whole drivers side dash crumbled into pieces after going over a speed bump under 5mph. Imagine if that were a crash? That shrapnel can kill someone.

There are numerous complaints about the cheap material dodge used and how everyone's dashboards are crumbling. It's a real safety issue and Dodge needs to stand behind their product and recall the dash. Dodge trucks are supposed to be Ram tough. Well when Ram's butt heads, their skulls don't shatter. Go over a bump and our dashboards do.

cracked glove box

I've had the plastic hinge on the right side of the glove box broke out for a couple of years of more. Today as I was pulling the glove box out to try and make repairs on another plastic problem, the cracked Dash, the glove box started to crack and pieces broke out. I swear the plastic now acts like egg shells and is real brittle. I have not researched of tried to find a replacement, yet. I feel that Dodge should be responsible and recall these models where the plastic has failed. Probably will never happen.

I first noticed the cracking a couple of years ago, maybe longer, and it had started out with one crack and now has grown to several cracks. I had previously tried to research what new dash plastic would cost and never did come up with anything that interested me. This week I decided to try and superglue the cracks hoping that it would slow them down. In the process of fixing one location, the plastic just broke out with no effort at all. It reminded me of a bio degradable plastic jug that had sit out in the sun for a period of time and when you tried to use it would just fall apart. The dash plastic acts like that too. I would really like to get it fixed but not sure what action I should take. I think Dodge should be responsible for this problem. I've never seen this happen in any other vehicle I have owned. I'm having same kind of problem with glove box breaking up too! .

Very little doubt that the issue is quite common in these vehicles. The severity of the problem and obvious poor quality of the plastic became very apparent when we tried to remove the dash pad to repair a vacuum line under it: The dash panel essentially disintegrated and could not be re-installed. I might otherwise be willing to accept some weather-cracking or minor flaws, but I believe the material used in the dash pad must be sub-standard or just plain defective. I believe Dodge should be willing to replace/correct this poor representation of why I should be proud to own one of their vehicles.

The upper dash started cracking and falling into the dash on the wiring and a/c ducting, so I pulled out all the pieces I could and put a dash topper and a dash mat on it. It looked ok, but about 4 weeks ago the dash bezel started coming loose, so when I took the bezel off to see what the problem was, I found the complete dash frame is cracking and falling apart. Went to the Dodge dealer and talked to the parts guy. He said, good luck the dash assembly has not been available for quit a long time. Started calling wrecking yards and got a few laugh from them. Everything in the wrecking yards are like mine or worse. I feel that Dodge should try to help us that have this problem by making the parts available and offering to sel the part at a discounted price or give it to us for free.

The entire dash cover is cracked and pieces falling into the dash. Thought about buying the new cover piece, but with further investigation I found the Entire dash structure was disintigrating; HVAC controls, light switch and anything that mounts to the plastic sub-structure has broken lose. The dash had even started to pull away from the firewall but I was at least able to secure that for now.

I am definitely concerned about flying pieces in the event of an accident and given that there is no structural integrity the air bag may not deploy properly causing further injury along with the dash breaking free from the firewall.

Very disappointed with all the problems with this vehicle. I understand I have to open a new complaint for each issue, and there are many, more than likely would never buy Chrysler product ever again.

After doing research for other issues I found dash cracking problem and have a coworker with same year truck with cracked dash also. My truck has very low miles and is in real good shape for the year and has several large cracks on the dash. It is a crime that car companies can get away with not being responsible for their actions especially for the money they are getting for the crap they sale.

Hopefully anybody looking to buy a vehicle now days does research on the internet before they spend the money.