2003 Dodge RAM 2500 visibility complaints

Filed Mar 27, 2007 · Visibility · 75,000 miles · FL

Hvac system will not let the defroster work. Dodge has issued a tsb for this issue. Tsb 24-004-03.

Filed Jul 18, 2006 · Visibility · 94,500 miles · TX

A downpour came while I was driving with 5 children in the truck. The window fogged up and I turned on defroster and the air wouldn't come through defroster! I was blinded! The air will not blow through my defroster.

Filed Feb 14, 2006 · Visibility · 15,000 miles · AK

A recall is due. Driving the 2003 dodge heavy duty 2500 hemi pickup towards work in the dark morning hours of 02-10-05 in anchorage alaska, the wiper arm and attached wiper blade on the (left) drivers side windshield fell off at 45 MPH while in use on a rare 40 f degree warm morning, heavily sanded and slushy covered road way. The view became instantly blurry and hard to focus on the dangers ahead, while the following vehicles barely escaped the projectile of the assembly of steel and plastic. The second vehicle hit it and destroyed any attempts to investigate its reasons for failure to stay with the truck. When she was able to stop and clean the windshield to see she was greatly shaken and afraid of the final duration to work. She then swapped the passenger side to the drivers side and finished her trip. She called me and told me that the arm fell off again, and said that it had happened before, due to the ice and snow that deposit in the plastic trim cover of the arms locking clip below the arms base. That the arm hits the ice and switches the lock into the off position and than the motor power tosses the arm off the truck in any given direction. The dodge dealer declares to us this is a common event in the northern environments. They warranted the whole assembly and admitted that this only happens on the drivers side. They admitted the problem was always the drivers side because the way the snow piles and melts into an icy dam in the arms way to operate freely. I believe that a black neoprene doughnut could be placed under the arm and through the splinted socket below the arm to stop the ice damming in this sensitive area and or a screw inserted into the safety tab to prevent the ice from opening the switch. Drivers in the northern climates should be notified about this problem. And the arm could use a leash to keep from leaving the vehicle. The dealer I went to was lithia of south anchorage. Apparently they are aware of the problem.

Filed Feb 19, 2004 · Visibility · 50,652 miles · KS

The defroster failed. As a result, the driver's visibility became impaired. *ak

Filed Feb 4, 2003 · Seats, Steering · 1,400 miles · PA

Seat becomes a problem when the temperature gets colder. Cool mornings will cause the seats to rise 3 inches causing driver or passenger not to sit correctly and buckle seat belt. This also causes driver to readjust mirror as temperatures rise and cushion lowers. As these changes occur driver must adjust seat forward and back making use of mirrors impossible without numerous corrections daily.also, vehicle wanders on highway, driver must continuously move steering wheel to keep vehicle between lines on consumer's side of the road. In addition, detected clunking noise coming from steering box.