2007 Dodge RAM 1500: sudden unintended acceleration

Filed Jul 30, 2018 · Fuel system · HI

Started my truck up. Then shifted into reverse with my foot on the brake, the truck suddenly went into a sudden acceleration. Like I had my foot on the gas pedal. I had to steep on the brake pedal very hard and even with that the 5.7 hemi was a lot of power to stop. I avoided hitting a concrete wall and a side of a house. Luckily I shifted into park and turned it off. It could of ended very badly. I now am not going to use the truck until I find out what's going on. I have called dodge corporation and they said they never heard of that happening or not at liberty to say. I have contacted my local dodge dealership and made an appointment for a diagnostic test. They told me on the phone that this is the first time that they ever heard of such a thing happening. I advised them to take a look at google and type in dodge ram sudden acceleration. Upon my own research a number of dodge mechanics have said the following. 1. Floor mat was stuck under pedal 2. Tps sensor 3. Iac sensor 5. Throttle body one or all needs to be replaced. In conclusion I would hope that dodge looks and address this matter before it's to late.

Filed May 28, 2014 · Electrical, Engine · 110,000 miles · NC

While driving down the road at 45 MPH I let off the gas to slow down when the truck started to lunge forward then stop then continued to lunge forward it repeated this process for a while. When I pressed on the gas it was fine only when I let off it. After about 5 miles the check engine light came on went to autozone had the code reed. The map sensor was bad so I replaced it myself. A week later driving down the road the truck began doing the same thing, only this time at a stop light the engine shut off. The steering wheel locked up as well as the brakes. I was able to get it restarted but it nearly caused an accident. Went down the road about 1/2 a mile when he died and I was unable to restart it. Had it towed to a dodge dealership who said the map sensor was once again bad. They replaced the map sensor this time and everything was well for about 2 weeks. When once again the truck did the same thing. Took it back to the same dealership once again the fault code was the map sensor. Upon them digging further they found the PCM was actually shorting out the map sensor. So they replaced the PCM. The new one came in and they weren't able to reprogram it. They contacted daimler-chyrsler who sent them another PCM they received that one and still are unable to reprogram the PCM. So that's 3 map sensor's and now 2 PCM's.

Filed Aug 7, 2012 · Electrical, Engine · 14,330 miles · SC

While waiting in traffic for light to change at corner of jackson bluff road and hwy 544, conway, sc, on 4 august 2012, truck suddenly accelerated even when brake was applied. Was able to whip truck onto sidewalk at jackson bluff rd & 544 to avoid an accident. It appeared that truck engine accelerated to as much as 2000 RPM even with brake on as firm as possible.

Filed Aug 23, 2009 · Acceleration · 11,287 miles · TX

At times, when in drive and when pressure is applied to brake vehicle suddenly accelerates forward for no reason requiring more pressure on brake until acceleration stops, but not before moving forward. This could be 3-5 feet depending how sudden the acceleration occurred. This has happened several times, with the last occurring where I hit the front end of our other SUV. This scares us because what if a person is in front of us, etc... We have reported this to our dodge service and they told us that they have no reports of this. They also asked us if we could have had our foot on the accelerator? To me the way the accelerator pedal and brake pedal is it is almost impossible for this to happen in a automatic transmission type vehicle. This has happened at least 3 time prior to this with this vehicle. It also happened in a 2005 durango we had a few times.

Filed Oct 23, 2008 · Acceleration, Engine · 4,000 miles · IA

Tl*the contact owns a 2007 dodge ram 1500. On approximately six occasions, while driving at any speed, the vehicle surged forward without warning. The contact has to depress the brake pedal and hold it down. The RPM's increased and the vehicle felt as if it were attempting to get away. The vehicle has to be completely shut off in order for it to stop. The esp indicator also illuminated on the instrument panel. The vehicle has been to a dealer six times for this failure without any resolution. The current mileage was 26,529 and failure mileage was 4,000. Updated 11/17/08 *cn updated 11/24/08.