2011 Dodge RAM 1500: misfire or rough idle

Filed Jul 28, 2022 · Engine · KS

I was driving at highway speed. The vehicle suddenly lost power and began to shutter. It was difficult to control and the vehicle behind me had to swerve to the inside lane to avoid a rear end collision. Upon receipt and diagnosis from Olathe DCJ, they indicated there is a misfire in cylinder 5. Through a Google review, I discovered this is very common know issue. It costs anywhere from $3500-$15000 to resolve let alone the risk to life. In discussion with my service advisor (Mike), they perform this repair a couple of times a month. This is in one location in the Kansas City area. I can only imagine how widespread this issue is.

Filed Mar 24, 2021 · Engine, Transmission · 79,000 miles · IA

Engine code reading misfire on cylinder 3 while driving down the interstate. Vehicle has less than 80k miles. Vehicle starts to shake and is harder to control, and loses acceleration, is random, almost causing a multi-car pileup. Issue is the camshaft and lifters. It is descibed in this communication this is apparently a known issue with anything with a 5.7, 6.0 or 6.4 hemi motor. Spark plugs and plug wires were replaced 3/21/21, driven again on 3/22/21, same issue, almost causing another crash due to loss of power on the interstate when merging, and then shaking almost sending the vehicle into bridge.

Filed Nov 30, 2020 · Engine · 86,000 miles · CA

I was operating my vehicle when it presented a check engine light. I utilized a code reader to determine it was a cylinder 5 misfire code. The code disappeared after roughly 30 seconds. About an hour later, the check engine light came on and stayed on. The truck started violently shaking, causing me to almost lose control of the steering wheel. I had to quickly pull off to the side of the road from the middle lane, almost causing multiple accidents as my speed rapidly decreased. The shaking continued for another two minutes after which it stopped. I was able to get the vehicle home by traveling at a low rate of speed and keeping the engine speed under 3000 RPM. The issue was diagnosed as a failing camshaft and lifters causing a misfire and the loss of power. This is a serious safety issue, and I am not able to drive my vehicle for fear of the misfire occurring again and me losing control of the vehicle causing an accident.

Filed Nov 8, 2020 · Engine · 160,000 miles · VT

The check engine light came on while driving and the code was a p305 which is an engine misfire on cylinder 5. We had the truck looked at and the spark plugs were replaced then the coil packs none of which fixed the truck. Finally the dealership said the lifters in the motor failed which damaged the cam shaft. We had to replace the motor in the truck. The dealership even said that the part was faulty and dodge continued to use them in the engines.

Filed Sep 1, 2020 · Engine · 155,000 miles · PA

Tl* the contact owns a 2011 ram 1500. The contact stated that at vehicle start-up, the engine rattled and vibrated without warning. Over time, the contact stated that the check engine warning light illuminated while driving at 35 MPH. The contact took the vehicle to an independent mechanic who informed him that there was a misfire in cylinder #8. The contact was informed that in order to repair the vehicle, the lifters and possibly the camshaft needed to be replaced. The vehicle had yet to be repaired. The dealer had yet to be notified of the failure. The manufacturer had been notified and the contact was informed that there were no recalls on the vehicle. The contact was then referred to the federal safety agency and was offered no further assistance. The failure mileage was approximately 155,000.

Filed Jun 2, 2020 · Engine · 138,700 miles · GA

Check engine light illuminated while driving. Lost power and had to pull over due to vibration. Could not drive even close to the speed limit and caused a traffic backup while driving it to the dealer. Code ws p0305. Misfire on cylinder 5. The dealer changed plugs, and coil pack. Reset check engine light. Drove 12 miles and check engine light illuminated again. Returned to dealer. Mechanic stated it was worn cam. Estimated cost to repair is 4500-5000. This truck only has 140,000 miles on it. I have taken extra care with this vehicle. I'm retired and I planned on this being my last truck. Upon investigation there are literally 10000's of these engines breaking in this manner. It's not only trucks but in all of the various chrysler vehicles. This started with the first model 5.7 hemi. There is no comment or help from chrysler. This engine failure needs to be addressed by the federal safety agency. Individuals have little power to do anything which is why we rely on government organizations such as the federal safety agency to make our collective voices heard. I'm positive that you have thousands of registered complaints on this issue yet you have done do nothing? I know this will mean millions to chrysler. Do they have the federal safety agency in it's pocket? Sure seems to be the case since you are not representing the us citizens harmed by chrysler using faulty parts in the manufacture of the 5.7 hemi. Where is the quality control? This should have been found if chrysler had quality control on the parts they use. I thought this was mandatory. I look forward to your response to see how you are wiggling out of this.

Filed May 18, 2020 · Engine · 110,000 miles · TX

Coming for the senior center on the freeway. My truck began to shake and the engine light came on & a bell was ringing. I put my emergency light on, I did not know what was going on. Everyone around me had to slow down and I'm in traffic. They will run you over on the freeway. Blowing there horn and they can see something is wrong with you truck. The truck slow down so I keep going. When I got off the freeway I went to o'reilly auto part to see what was going on. The engine light was still on. They put the machine on it and said it was a misfire code 5 and other code also. Now to find out that it the cam/lifter that need fixing. Over $5,000.00 dollar work for this truck. I look on line to see if it was a recalls for this and found out that almost all the dodge ram was having the same problem. Something need to be doing. There are to may ram driver that coming out there pocket to pay for the same thing.

Filed Feb 28, 2020 · Engine · 70,800 miles · KY

Vehicle shakes and will lose its pulling power to where one can only go around 20 miles per hour. This happened on a bypass while going 50ish MPH. The sudden slowing almost caused me to wreck. Engine code pulls up as misfire. After both spark plugs and on-coil plug was replaced vehicle done the same thing. Upon investigating conditions and knocking noise I discovered many have had problems due to lifter seizing and digging into cam shaft. This causes the cylinder to not open right making fuel air mixture to be off. Many forums and videos online blame bad lifters from factory. However I am personally uncertain of this so issue is unknown. Reaching out to dodge I get a message of sorry your vehicle is out of warranty. Vehicle only has 70853 miles on it but is past five years old. Others reported issue from 50-120k miles in their cases. I trully dont understand why there was no recall on this issue since it seems fairly common and people are out 1000s of dollars because of it.

Filed Feb 26, 2020 · Engine · 100,000 miles · PA

Has number 6 misfire and was determined after items replaced it is a seized lifter causing the issue

Filed Feb 25, 2020 · Engine · 138,043 miles · TN

Camshaft and lifters malfunction driving highway vehicle will go into limp mode, when checked out says number 5 misfire, replace coil pack and plugs, same thing

Filed Dec 21, 2019 · Engine, Fuel system · 100,000 miles · SC

Cam/lifter issue with the 01-11 dodge ram 1500! It's a factory engine problem that the average person can't afford to fix. It's been a problem since day one & yet it's still not a recall on it. Nobody has the time or money to fix a problem the manufacturers should have fixed before hand. Keeps throwing the cylinder 5 misfire code & everything that I can afford to replace has been replaced

Filed Jul 12, 2019 · Engine · 160,000 miles · VA

Engine cam shaft and lifter failure. Lifters fail resulting in cam shaft lobe wearing unevenly causing extreme shaking and misfire while driving under load and could cause drivers to wreck while in motion