2001 DODGE RAM 1500 Complaints

I HAVE A 2001 DODGE RAM 1500 4X4. THE LAST 3 YEARS MY DASHBOARD HAS BEEN CRACKING. 3 YEARS AGO I WENT TO THE DEALER SERVICE DEPARTMENT AT TIDEWATER DODGE AND THE SERVICE MANAGER STATED THEY WOULD NOT FIX IT UNDER WARRANTY AND I LEFT DISAPPOINTED. HE CLAIMED IT WASN'T THEIR FAULT. AT THE TIME I ACCEPTED HIS LOGIC UNTIL LATELY I FOUND OUT I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE. SINCE THEN I HAVE A NEIGHBOR WITH THE SAME PROBLEM WITH THE SAME YEAR TRUCK. I THEN LEARNED THAT IF YOU GO ON A COMPUTER SEARCH ENGINE AND TYPE "DODGE DASHBOARD CRACKS" THERE ARE NUMEROUS CHAT ROOMS AND WEBSITES SET UP JUST FOR THIS PROBLEM. YOU WILL SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM WITHOUT CHRYSLER ACKNOWLEDGING THE PROBLEM IS THEIRS. YOU DON'T SEE THIS PROBLEM IN OTHER TRUCKS. WE NEED HELP PLEASE. MY CONCERN IS SAFETY. IT IS CRACKING SO BAD I FEEL UNSAFE DRIVING IT BECAUSE IF I HAVE A MINOR ACCIDENT AND THE PASSENGER AIRBAG DEPLOYS, IT WILL EXPLODE AND SEND SPLINTERS OF PLASTIC AT ME AND MY PASSENGERS. I CAN'T HELP BUT TO SHIVER THINKING OF SPLINTERS, PROPELLED UNDER PRESSURE, ENTERING MY EYES AND/OR NECK IN A SMALL FRONT END ACCIDENT THAT DEPLOYS THE AIRBAG. CAN YOU PICTURE THAT? HOW WOULD YOU FEEL? HAS THIS HAPPENED AND SOMEONE THOUGHT IT WAS THEIR FAULT? I SHOULDN'T FEEL UNSAFE IN MY VEHICLE AND THINK CHRYSLER SHOULD TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR FAULTY EQUIPMENT. THE DEALER COST OF REPLACEMENT IS $1,000.00 - $1,200.00 EACH. THAT IS THE REASON THEY WON'T RECALL THE PROBLEM. IS IT A MONEY MAKER FOR A FAILING COMPANY? I FEEL THE DASHBOARDS CAME WITHOUT UV PROTECTION AND THE SUN HAS WEAKENED THE PLASTIC. CHRYSLER HAS COVERED THIS UP BY OBTAINING A NEW DASHBOARD SUPPLIER AFTER THEY FOUND THE PROBLEM. I NEED TO GET THIS FIXED SOON FOR MY SANITY. ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED. *TR

I'VE NOTICED ON MY LOW MILEAGE 2001 DODGE RAM 1500 THAT THE DASH HAS BEEN CRACKING AND I BOUGHT A DASH MAT TO COVER THE PROBLEM AND NOW IT IS IN HORRIBLE CONDITION. I SEE THAT THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE WITH THIS PROBLEM AND I WORRY IF I AM EVER IN A WRECK WITH A PASSENGER THAT THEY ARE GOING BE HARMED BY THE LARGE CHUNKS OF DASH THEY ARE VERY SHARP. I HAVE TAKEN GREAT CARE OF THIS PICKUP AND THERE IS NO REASON THAT THIS SHOULD BE HAPPENING! *TR

2001 DODGE PICK UP - HOOD FLEW UP DUE TO FAILURE OF SECONDARY SAFETY LATCH - PURCHASED REPLACEMENT HOOD HINGES @ COST $239.00 - DAMAGE TO HOOD ALSO WHICH I DID NOT REPAIR. *TR

CRACKS IN DASHBOARD ON TRUCK DURING ACCIDENT DASHBOARD THAT WAS CRACKED WITH LOOSE PIECES FLEW AND CUT MY PASSENGER MOST OF THE PIECES WERE SHARP AND WERE LOOSE PRIOR TO THE ACCIDENT. *TR

I HAVE A 2001 DODGE RAM 1500 PICKUP. NOTICED WALKING AROUND MY TRUCK ONE DAY A CRACK IN MY DASHBOARD STARTING AT THE WINDSHIELD RUNNING TO THE DRIVER COMPARTMENT. A CLOSER LOOK REVEALED 5 MORE CRACKS. I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS OLD ENOUGH FOR THIS TO HAPPEN BUT DECIDED TO GO ONLINE TO ORDER A REPLACEMENT DASH. I WAS VERY SURPRISED TO FIND NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS FROM OTHER DODGE RAM OWNERS HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM. A VIDEO OF A NEWS REPORT FROM A FLORIDA TV STATION IS WHERE I FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS SITE. THEY URGED ANY RAM OWNER WITH THIS PROBLEM TO CONTACT YOUR SITE. I WILL MOST LIKELY PAY TO HAVE THIS FIXED. MY CONCERN IS THAT THERE WAS A DEFECT IN MATERIAL FROM THE VENDOR DODGE USED FOR THE DASHBOARDS AND THEY WILL NOT OWN UP TO IT. THE NEWS REPORT MADE ME HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT PIECES OF THE DASH FALLING IN ON THE PASSENGER AIRBAG OR CAUSING ELECTRICAL PROBLEMS AND POSSIBLY SOME SAFETY ISSUES. *TR

DASHBOARD IS CRACKED IN SEVERAL DIFFERENT LOCATIONS, HAS A COUPLE OF VERY SHARP PIECES OF PLASTIC PROTRUDING FROM DASH, COULD HARM A PASSENGER IN THE EVENT OF AN ACCIDENT. THE TRUCK WAS KEPT IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, ARMOR ALL'ED AND KEPT IN A GARAGE MOST OF ITS LIFE. THERE IS CURRENTLY A COVER MADE OUT OF A VERY LIGHT MATERIAL TO COVER THE DEFECT, HOWEVER, IN THE EVENT OF A SERIOUS ACCIDENT THE PLASTIC COULD EASILY PENETRATE THE COVER AND POTENTIALLY SEVERELY HARM A PASSENGER. *TR

SEVERAL YEARS AGO THE DASHBOARD BEGAN CRACKING IN MY 2001 DODGE RAM 1500. THE CONDITION HAS CONTINUED TO WORSEN AS TIME GOES BY. LARGE PIECES ARE FALLING DOWN INTO THE DASH AREA AND MAY CAUSE SHORTING OUT OR EXPOSING WIRING. *TR

CRACKED DASHBOARD. NO OFF ROAD USE OR ACCIDENT. MULTIPLE CRACKS ORIGINATING ON PASSENGER SIDE ON THE FRONT OF DASH BETWEEN VENT AND WINDSHIELD. SHARP, CRACKED PLASTIC ABOVE THE PASSENGER AIR BAG AREA. *TR

JUST FILING THIS COMPLAINT OF THE DODGE RAM DASH. IT HAS FELL TO PIECES, SOME OF THE PIECES ARE FOOTBALL SIZED. IF YOU TYPE IN DODGE RAM DASH ON GOOGLE, YOU WILL FIND A TON OF FORUMS WITH PEOPLE HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM. TALKED TO DODGE CUSTOMER SERVICE AND WAS TOLD THEY COULD NOT HELP ME WITH ANY THING. IT SEEMS WITH ALL THE PEOPLE HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM, IT IS A MANUFACTURE DEFECT IN THE PLASTIC. I HAVE A 2001 RAM 1500 NOW WITH 91,000 MILES. WHEN I BOUGHT THE TRUCK IT HAD 39,500 MILES AND A SMALL CRACK IN THE DASH. NOW THERE IS HARDLY A DASH LEFT. I JUST HOPE THAT A PIECE OF PLASTIC DOES NOT FALL THROUGH AND MAKE THE AIRBAG DEPLOY OR NOT DEPLOY WHEN IT SHOULD. THANKS, MAD DODGE OWNER. *TR

THE DASH ON MY 2001 DODGE RAM CAVED IN LAST YEAR AND I REPLACED IT YESTERDAY FOR $548. I WAS TOLD IT IS A PROBLEM WITH THE 2001. *TR