2004 DODGE RAM 2500 Complaints

DT: THE CONTACT'S TRUCK JUMPED OUT OF PARK INTO REVERSE ON ITS OWN. HE TALKED TO THE DEALER, AND THE DEALER TOLD HIM TO CALL DAIMLER CHRYSLER. THEY CLAIMED THEY WOULD HAVE TO SEE WHAT THE PROBLEM WAS. THIS WAS THE THIRD TIME THIS HAPPENED. THE LAST TIME IT HAPPENED WAS ON 8-26-05 AND THE TRUCK ALMOST RAN OVER HIM. ON 8-31-05 THE DEALER WAS SUPPOSE TO TEAR DOWN THE TRANSMISSION AND FIX IT. HAD 20,000 MILES LEFT ON WARRANTY. IT WAS 70,000 MILES POWER TRAIN WARRANTY, AND DAIMLER/CHRYSLER WERE NOT SURE IF THE REPAIR WORK WILL BE COVERED UNDER THE WARRANTY. *AK

I HAVE A 2004 DODGE RAM 2500 WITH A 6 SPEED MANUAL TRANSMISSION. THE SENSOR IN MY MANUAL TRANSMISSION THAT TURNS ON MY REVERSE LIGHTS FAILED. I REPLACED MY SENSOR AND THE PROBLEM WAS SOLVED. I AM CONCERNED BECAUSE NOT ONLY CAN I NOT SEE WHEN BACKING UP, OTHER DRIVERS ARE NOT ALERTED TO MY VEHICLE MOVING IN REVERSE WHICH COULD BE DANGEROUS TO MYSELF AND OTHERS. THERE SEEM TO BE QUITE A FEW OF THESE FAILURES BECAUSE THE PART WAS ON BACKORDER FROM THE MANUFACTURER. *NM

DT: THE CONTACT OWNS A 2004 DODGE RAM 2500 DIESEL. THE CONTACT COMPLAINED ABOUT FRONT UPPER AND LOWER BALL JOINT PROBLEM. THE FAILURE MILEAGE THE FIRST TIME WAS 5000 MILES,THE UPPER BALL JOINTS HAD TO BE REPLACED. THE FAILURE MILEAGES THE SECOND TIME WAS 20,300 MILES AND THE UPPER AND LOWER BALL JOINTS HAD TO BE REPLACED. THE UPPER BALL JOINTS WERE CHANGED TWICE, AND THE LOWER BALL JOINTS WERE REPLACED ONCE IN A YEAR AND A HALF PERIOD. THE FACTORY TIRE SIZE WAS LT26570R17. AT FIRST INCIDENT THE TIRES AND RIMS WERE FACTORY EQUIPMENT, AND AT THE SECOND INCIDENT IT WAS AFTER MARKET EQUIPMENT.*AK

DT: WITHOUT WARNING THE VEHICLE CAME OUT OF PARK. THE CONSUMER TOOK IT TO THE DEALER AND THEY SAID THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH IT. 6 MONTHS AGO THE DEALER SAID THEY COULD NOT DUPLICATE THE PROBLEM AND THEY TRIED IT AND THEY COULD GET INTO PARK. THE CONSUMER SAID IT WAS SPORADIC. THE CONSUMER STATED LAST NIGHT(JULY 24, 2005) HE AND HIS WIFE PULLED UP IN FRONT OF HIS GATE AND HE EXITED THE VEHICLE TO OPEN THE GATE AND THE VEHICLE CAME OUT OF PARK WITH HIS WIFE STILL IN IT AND IT RAN INTO A DITCH AND THEN INTO HIS FENCE AND WAS STOPPED BY A TREE. HIS WIFE WAS NOT HURT. THE CONSUMER WILL BE CALLING THE MANUFACTURER AFTER THIS CALL. THIS HAS HAPPENED MORE THAN 18 TIMES. *JB

VEHICLE IS IN FOR A THIRD TIME FOR SAME VIOLENT SHAKING AT 65MPH AS REPORTED TO THIS SITE BEFORE. THIS VEHICLE IS BOUND FOR A FATAL HEAD-ON! I HAVE FOUND NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS OF THE SAME PROBLEM NATIONWIDE ON THE INTERNET. DODGE BOUGHT BACK 32 VEHICLES FROM THE STATE OF MAINE FOR THE SAME REASON. IS ANYONE AT THE NHTSA LOOKING INTO THIS? I HAVE VIDEO OF THE PROBLEM SHOWING A VIOLENT HIGH SPEED WOBBLE AND BOUNCE OF THE FRONT-END. THE VIDEO WAS TAKEN FROM A SECOND VEHICLE AS I TRAVELED AT ABOUT 70 MPH.

DT: ON A COUPLE OF OCCASIONS VEHICLE WAS RUNNING AND IT POPPED INTO REVERSE. SECOND TIME THIS HAPPENED WA SON FEBRUARY 8, 2005, A TRAILER WAS ATTACHED TO VEHICLE. WHILE AT STORE, PACIFIC FEED STORE 554 EAST OSAGE, PACIFIC, MO. 63069 VEHICLE POPPED INTO REVERSE. TRAILER JACKKNIFED AND CAUSED DAMAGE TO THE SIDE OF THE VEHICLE ABOVE THE REAR PASSENGER SIDE WHEEL AND TAILGATE. NO POLICE REPORT ON INCIDENT BECAUSE NO OTHER VEHICLES WERE INVOLVED. DEALER TOLD CONSUMER TO HAVE TRUCK SERVICED, CONSUMER DONE SO IMMEDIATELY, THEN CONTACTED MANUFACTURER. DEALER FOUND PROBLEM WITH LINKAGE FOR TRANSMISSION. DEALER REPAIRED PROBLEM. MANUFACTURE RWAS SUPPOSED TO SEND AN INSPECTOR TO INSPECT VEHICLE. WHEN INSPECTOR CALLED CONSUMER TO SCHEDULE AN INSPECTION, CONSUMER GAVE A TIME FOR INSPECTION, THEN INSPECTOR CALLED BACK AND TOLD CONSUMER THAT HE HAD RECEIVED AN E-MAIL FROM MANUFACTURER THAT STATING HE WAS TO DO NOTHING FURTHER WITH CONSUMER'S VEHICLE. MANUFACTURER THEN CONTACTED CONSUMER BY MAIL, STATING THAT SINCE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED THEY COULD NOT ADEQUATELY ACCESS THE CLAIM, AND BASED ON THIS INFORMATION, THEY WERE DENYING CONSUMER'S CLAIM.*AK

AT LESS THAN 4000 MILES ON MY '04 DODGE RAM 2500 I EXPERIENCED VIOLENT SHAKING IN THE FRONT-END AT ABOUT 70-75 MPH. I HAD TO SLOW TO ABOUT 35 TO RECOVER. THIS OCCURED ON A POOR STRETCH OF INTERSTATE THEREFOR I AVOIDED THIS STRETCH FOR SOMETIME. AT ABOUT 13000 MILES I EXPERIENCED THE SAME PROBLEM AND HAD TO COME TO A COMPLETE STOP TO RECOVER. THIS OCCURED THREE MORE TIMES ON THAT TRIP AND EACH TIME THE ONSET OCCURED AT A SLOWER SPEED. THE SHAKE IS SO VIOLENT THAT THERE IS NO STEERING CONTROL AND SLOWING TO ABRUPTLY ENHANCED THE PROBLEM. I HAVE SEEN SEVERAL SIMILAR COMPLAINTS ON THE INTERNET YET ONLY FIVE REPORTED TO THE NHTSA. THERE ARE CURRENTLY THREE OTHER PICKUPS WITH THE SAME PROBLEMS BEING SERVICED AT THE SAME DEALERSHIP I TOOK MINE TO. I WAS TOLD BY THE MECHANIC THAT THEY HAVEN'T TRACKED THE PROBLEM AND DODGE HAS BEEN OF NO HELP. I CURRENTLY HAVE 600 MILES ON IT SINCE THE REPAIR AND THE PROBLEM IS BACK. THIS PROBLEM WITHOUT A DOUBT WILL CAUSE A FATAL CRASH. I AM CURRENTLY RESTRICTED TO TOWN DRIVING UNTIL THIS PROBLEM IS SOLVED. NOTE: THE DATE NOTED BELOW FOR THE DATE AND MILEAGE OF OCCURENCE IS ONLY AN ESTIMATE.

VEHICLE IS OWNED BY COMPANY AND DRIVEN BY SALES STAFF. THE OPERATOR STOPPED THE VEHICLE ON LEVEL PAVED SURFACE AND SHIFTED TO PARK THEN EXITED THE VEHICLE WITH PARK BRAKE OFF AND THE ENGINE RUNNING. WHEN THE OPERATOR RETURNED 1 TO 2 MINUTES LATER THE VEHICLE HAD MOVED REARWARD ABOUT 40 FEET ACCROSS A PUBLIC ROADWAY. IT STRUCK A LIGHT POLE AND KNOCKED IT OVER. THE REAR BUMPER WAS ALSO DAMAGED. THE VEHICLE WAS FOUND IN REVERSE ('R' ILLUMINATED) AFTER THE INCIDENT.

3 TIMES THIS HAS OCCURRED. AFTER PUTTING MY DODGE RAM 2500 DIESEL INTO PARK, LEAVING THE MOTOR RUNNING AND STEPPING OUT OF THE TRUCK, THE TRANSMISSION HAS JUMPED OUT OF PARK AND INTO REVERSE. THE FIRST TIME IT RAN OVER A GATE AND CRUSHED THE DRIVER DOOR. DODGE PAID THE REPAIR BILL. THE SECOND TIME I WAS TESTING THE VEHICLE TO SEE IF IT WOULD DO IT AGAIN. IT DID. THE THIRD TIME MY WIFE WAS ASSISTING ME AT MY FARM AND STEPPED OUT OF THE TRUCK AFTER PUTTING IT IN PARK. WE LOOKED UP AND THE TRUCK WAS TRAVELING BACKWARD AT A FAIRLY FAST PACE. I WAS ABLE TO GET THE DOOR OPEN AND PUT IN PARK, HOWEVER, IT WAS A VERY CLOSE CALL. WE COULD HAVE BOTH BEEN RUN OVER IN ADDITION TO THE PENS THAT WERE JUST A FEW FEET AWAY.

2004 DODGE 2500 GEAR SHIFTED OUT OF PARK AND INTO REVERSE AND THE VEHICLE RAN INTO A PALLET OF TILE.*MR THE TRUCK WAS RUNNING WHEN THIS HAPPENED. THE VEHICLE RIGHT REAR FENDER WAS DAMAGED. *NM