The vehicle was involved in a collision and the air bags failed to deploy. *ts consumer believed the brakes may have locked up.
2001 Dodge RAM 1500 airbags complaints
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Frontal air bags failed to deploy during a collision. A safety recall was conducted, however vehicle was not included in the population of vehicles affect in the safety recall.
Air bag didn't deploy, seatbelt didn't lock up. Ts
There is vibration when hitting a bump at 60-65 MPH. Dealer has replaced front tie rod.but, it has not remedied the problem.*akconsumer adds that this is not just vibrations but intense ascillations that alternate left to right. The bouncing makes the vehicle difficult to control and will not subside until broughtr to a complete stop. Upon checking several times, the tires were choppy and needed replacing, the track bar needed replacing, and a special part for the tie rod was ordered, also the left mirror was not heating, also the clock spring was replaced, also tires were showing wear..
This truck is owned by sacramento county. Our driver proceeded from a green light into the intersection. Another car travelling perpendicular to ours ran their red light. Our truck impacted about at the passenger side door. We "t-boned" the other car. During this accident the car travelling beside ours collided with the side of our truck. Two highway patrol officers actually witnessed the accident. They estimated the speed of collision for our truck at over 25 MPH. The airbags in both of the other vehicles deployed. We did alert dodge to this event. They checked the electronic system and found no faults. We are still concerned because a short time later we had another front end collision with a tree in a 2001 dodge ram 1500 and the airbag did not deploy. I will report this accident on a separate questionaire. The report we got back from dodge was nearly identical to the first one which makes us wonder how thourough an investigation they perform. Also the report for the accident in this questionaire stated that the force of the impact was dissipated through the perpendicular travel of the vehicle to our truck. The highway patrol at the accident have told me that there was no travel for our truck in the direction of the car it hit. This incomplete or untrue conclusion from dodge also makes me suspicious of the quality of their investigation. Also, talking to a dodge rep. Who investigates these events I was told that they rarely see the air bag go off when their car hits another as ours did (t-bone). One last comment, this form would be much easier if I could see all of my typed comments instead of just one line. Thank you.
While traveling at 45 MPH, another vehicle traveling at about 45 to 60 MPH hit consumer's vehicle on front driver's side. Driver's side air bag did not deploy. *ak vehicle was totaled and one person was injured in accident.
Both frontal air bags did not deploy after a frontal collision with a guard rail and a phone pole at 35 MPH. Manufacturer was not notified at this time. Feel free to provide any further information.
My truck has an engine miss, that is confirmed by the manufactures own engineers who say there is no known solution. Dc refuses to honor their comittment and has failed in their so called attempts at repair. The clockspring has twice been replaced, first after it broke two days after the dc rep inspected my truck but refused to do anything with the concerns. Second time was the recall 982 which was performed on 7/9/01. The noise in the steering wheel has since returned and the steering at times gets tight while turning right. The first clockspring that broke was also after the vehicle steering wheel was turned to the right. The brakes will shudder when coming to a stop, and the dealer replaced the rear drums at one point but refused to procede further. On 5/13/01 coming to an intersection the trucks rear tires locked up and the truck entered the intersection approx. 1/3 to 1/2 the length of the truck, on 11/17/01while returning home I noticed a burnt odor at the rear of the truck, a further inspection showed smoke coming from the wheels, touching the rear wheel it was extremely hot to the touch. So hot in fact I pulled my hand away before I was burnt. Front tires still show extreme signs of wear , dealer has refused to do anything further. In fact dependable dodge of vero beach on 5/14/01 told me dc ordered that no further work be done on my truck. They in fact stated they will breach their warranty.
Airbag light came on and there was a noise when steering. Vehicle taken to dealer 5 times, replaced clock spring assembly. Did not remedy problem. Consumer is returning vehicle under lemon law.
After traveling approximately 50 MPH and rear-ending another vehicle both frontal air bags failed to deploy. No determination has been made as to the reason for failure of the airbags to deploy. Driver suffered a cut on head and bruises. Please provide any additional information/attachments.
While making a slow right turn at about 5-10 MPH steering wheel became very hard to turn. Consumer then heard a loud popping sound and airbag light came on. Vehicle not taken to dealer yet. Please add further comments.
This is the second clockspring that has failed in this truck. The first obi# is 742727.
After many visits to the selling dealer, and a meeting with the chrysler rep. My truck still exhibits problems such as sat.4/28/01 while driving I turned the truck right and noticed the steering was extremely tight, when the steering wheel was turned back to the straight position, something inside cracked, almost immediately the (air bag) light came on and remainred on, truck was brought to dealer and was set for an appointment for monday, 4/30/01. The ownersmanual states ( warning ignoring the air bag light in your instrument panel could mean you won't have the air bags to protect you in a collision) the dealer failed in attempt after attempt to investigate my complaints, and now caused me to have to drive this defective truck. The brakes at times while comming to a stop shudder, or do you call it wheel hop , 3/15/01 dependable dodge replaced the brake drums on the rear after the service director drove the truck on 3/9/01. The truck now three times is exhibiting front tire wear, first time they match mounted the tires as well as took one of the front tires off the rim and exchanged it with the spare tire under the truck, second time they aligned the frontend and rotated the tires, 200 miles later the tires showed signs of wear again, truck was taken to 2 different michelin tire dealers and they informed me that the tires are wearing prematurely, to soon with only 1000 miles on them since the alignment. The truck ehibits what the service director says is a ping, I was informed to increase the octane from 87 to 89, which has done nothing. I am in the process of entering into the lemon law process and am very dissapointed with the response I have received from the dealer as well as the manufacturer. Thank you.
Damage $ 12000.00 , front crash at 55 MPH, neither airbag deployed.
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