I was driving the 2009 dodge ram that I purchased in july 2010. While driving on the highway on I-20w in georgia, the drive shaft fell off. The whole drive shaft fell off. Luckily no one got hurt. The cars behind me had to stop. The ram quickly lost speed, and I had to pull to the side of the highway. The tow truck driver told me that I was lucky the truck did not flip over. A bunch of fluids came out of where the drive shaft was supposed to be. When the tow truck driver tried to attach the ram to his truck it was noticed that the rear tires locked up. He said the differential locked up. I have checked some dodge online forums, and this seems to be a common enough problem that it needs to be addressed.
2009 Dodge RAM 1500 fuel system complaints
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Second incident-10/19/09. While sitting in parking lot with foot on brake, truck in drive, engine died out and would not restart. Had to tow to local dealer. Truck did restart after sitting overnight at dealership. Dealership could finally duplicate problem. No codes stored in any module. They checked voltage at the fuel pump and pump pressure, no pressure at pump. After lowering the fuel tank and checking the fuel, they inspected the fuel pump and discovered a power lead at the pump was loose and disconnects with vibration. Installed new fuel pump assembly. Old part not available.
First incident-9/27/09. While driving down the street, engine died out and would not restart. Was out of town and had to tow to local dealer. Service department did code check and could not find anything wrong. They did reprogram the PCM software per tsb 18-038-08.
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