2005 Dodge Dakota: engine knocking or ticking

6 of the 470 complaints about the 2005 Dodge Dakota describe engine knocking or ticking.

owner complaints: 6
of this car's complaints: 1%
typical mileage: 62,500
recalls: 0

Is there a fix? 9 service bulletins cover this area of the car. See below

Engine knocking or ticking by model year

2011
1
2006
1
2005
6
2004
5
2003
5
2002
12
2001
13
2000
9
1999
18
1998
10
1997
4
1996
1
1995
3
1993
1

What owners say

Filed Aug 24, 2019 · Engine · 62,000 miles · SC

Ticking noise from exhaust manifold. Exhaust manifold bolts & studs prematurely broke! Leaking exhaust fumes are able to enter passenger cabin & cause a safety hazard! This issue needs a safety recall to replace exhaust manifold gaskets, bolts & studs that are of an improved grade to correct this factory installation safety issue on both left & right hand exhaust manifolds!!

Filed Aug 24, 2019 · Engine · 62,500 miles · SC

Ticking noise coming from exhaust manifolds! Exhaust manifold bolts & studs are breaking prematurely allowing exhaust gases to enter passenger compartment! New better grade exhaust manifold bolts & studs plus gaskets need to be installed on both left & right hand side manifolds with a recall to correctly repair this dangerous factory installed defect!!

Filed Apr 21, 2018 · Engine, Fuel system · 130,000 miles · CA

Mine is the 2005 dodge dakota extra cab and the exhaust manifold bolts breaking/shearing at the engine block. This can cause (and it has) a ticking sound that gets louder as you accelerate. Once you hear the ticking sound, both sides of the engine are affected. This results in poor mileage, overheating, engine will stall at low idle, ultimately allowing exhaust fumes to enter the cabin, potentiallu, poisoning the occupants with carbon monoxide fumes. I took this vehicle to the dealer to have then replaced. The 1st dealer said it wasn't repairable. 2nd one said, 1400 $ per side to extract broken bolts at the rear of the exhaust manifold on both sides of my 4.7 . 3rd repair shop told me this very common on the 4.7 and he does about 10 a week. His price was 350 $ per size plus gasket and doughnut gasket at the collector. Hey! If this is such a common problem why are we dodge owners being hostage by having to make this repair ourselves and pay for it? It is an emmisions engineering underdesign that needs to be fixed and a recall needs to be issued. It is a design defect. Please investigate and get this situation corrected before some innocent child dies from carbon monoxide entering the cabin. Not to mention other potential hazards that may occur because the driver is overwhelmed by carbon monoxide and runs down 78 people because they passed out from the carbon monoixide filled cabin while driving. Please. Do. Something. Time is running out. Before somebody is killed.

Filed May 28, 2015 · Engine · 60,000 miles · AR

Driving and it got a ticking noise ?? Then I started to get sleepy and a bad head ache!!! It got loud and then I looked under hood and bolts broke off in the heads of the motor , I can't afford 800--- 1,000 from chrysler wants to fix it ! It's dangerous if you stay in truck a long time with out window down !! Tales to many people have had same thing but of course they won't fix it should be fixed ! I slept in my truck in move out to ar ! If I did to know what was wrong I could of died from that deal !! How many mite of ??? From carbon monoxide poison????? Needs to be recalled !!!!

Filed Sep 5, 2014 · Electrical, Steering · 98,000 miles · GA

I am a tall driver standing 6'9" even with the seat all the way down and all the way back. After inheriting the 2005 dodge dakota sxt quad cab pickup truck from my step father that pasted away in october of 2013. I was driving along and my right knee hit the key while in the on position knocking into the auxiliary position turning the truck almost completely off. All the check engine lights came on the AC shut off turned over to heat and started getting very hot inside the truck. We when to the local dodge dealer they hooked up of a machine that gave them a code that said our computer was out of factory spec's. The guy said if we wanted it to be looked at to be diagnost.we would have to pay $198.00 to have them sep up an appointment for us to bring it in and put it on the "big computer" and if the computer in the truck can be restored to factory spec's that would be done with t the $198.00. The same guy said if they can't get it back to factory spec's and we need a new brain computer for our truck which my step father purchased new in 2005 from a different dealer. The guy said the new computer would cost us $2000.00 since this first incident it has happened four other times with the same thing happening each time. I am disabled and can't afford this headache off these issues.

Filed Apr 7, 2006 · Engine, Transmission · 3,000 miles · MI

I have been trying to get chrysler to fix the vibration/or wobbling sensation in my 05 dodge dakota since october. They did replace the axles but the truck still vibrates. They will not work on my truck- they say everything is normal and I disagree. I believe there are safety issues here. My 3.7 v6 engine has a lower engine knock at slow idles. They refuse to acknowledge the sound or say it is normal. I have been to the dealership several times and had to finally hire a lawyer for advice. I have also had problems with my heater not working and transmission/rear end making unexplained noises. I'm very frustrated and disappointed with the truck and how chrysler is handling the situation.