Tl* the contact owns a 2005 dodge ram 2500. The contact stated that while driving 70 MPH over a road bump, the front end of the vehicle started jerking violently. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who was not able to diagnose the failure. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure who advised the contact to call a different dealer for a second opinion. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 20,000 and the current mileage was 170,000.
2005 Dodge RAM 2500 suspension complaints
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I just purchased my used 2005 dodge ram 2500 and decided to take it on a 1500 mile round trip to test it out. At speeds over 55 MPH, I experienced the death wobble whenever I would hit uneven pavement. My conservative estimate is that it happened no less than 50 times during the trip. It was very scary and dangerous as many times I was traveling 70 MPH with semis right beside me. The dodge dealer quoted me over $1200 to replace the steering dampener as well as the ball joints, with no guarantee that it would even fix the problem. This could have very easily caused a death if someone less experienced than myself was driving. I am very surprised that dodge has not intervened with this obvious design flaw as it could very well cause serious injury including death.
At cruising highway speeds, if a pothole is hit the truck will go into a violent "death wobble" until brought to a stop.
Dealer had my truck twice since the recall. He told me that there was a tie-rod assembly, steering linkage and front end needed. I only have 49,000 miles on it and there's a recall for these defects with chrysler id 11v350000 - they old me that it would cost me $3,000 the first time and then I came back to get parts and now they are telling me they will give me a break on parts - this is fraud if there's a recall plus they should have fixed it the first time for free - it was totally under warranty at both times.
My dodge ram 2500 truck has a violent death wobble issue. At freeway speeds when hitting an uneven bump in the pavement the truck goes into a sustaining death wobble type motion in the front end. It is extremely scary, and quite dangerous. The truck is completely out of control and must be slowed to approximately 30 MPH for the wobble to stop. I've taken my truck to the dodge dealer several times and they cannot find the problem. I've replaced everything, the axle, steering dampener 3 times, ball joints, alignment adjustments, new tires. The problem goes away for a short time but then always returns. I'm afraid to drive my truck on the freeway and my kids are afraid to drive in my truck period. When it happens it's very wild and scary. All the traffic around me slows down and swerves to get away from my truck. It's not only dangerous and scary, but embarrassing too. I don't know what to do. I've tried everything and nothing is working. Dodge is pretty much useless. They turned their back on me since all the components check out fine. They said there's nothing that they can do. I need a resolution for this problem.
We bought an 05 dodge ram 2500. On a trip with a small trailer after hitting a bump the front end started shaking violently. (death wobble) after slowing the truck shaking went away. Problem recurred several times on this trip. On way home no issues. Trailer empty. Issue recurred while wife was driving truck to work, no trailer. Bumps an potholes seem to set it off at speeds over 55mph. Took to dealer they found no issues. Put 2" spacer lift on truck with different tires. Problem seemed to go away. Over the past several years truck drives o.k unless hooked to a trailer. Last occurrence was 10-2-11 on trip to south dakota. Problem recurred 3 times in 5 miles. I made adjustments to equalizer hitch (tightened 1 link) and had no more issues on this trip. This is a major safety issue with these trucks and need to be addressed. Web searches show this is a very common problem. It would be nice if dodge would issue a recall and fix this issue.
When truck hits bump in road at more than 55 miles it gets death wobble ,severe shaking in front end and have to stop to stop shaking.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 dodge ram 2500. The contact stated that the steering wheel and front end of the vehicle would jerk violently. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who was unable to diagnose the failure but advised the contact to install a suspension kit. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure who provided no assistance. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 40,000 and the current mileage was 61, 000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 dodge ram 2500. The contact stated that when driving 50 MPH and above, he would hear a grinding noise from the vehicle. The vehicle was inspected by a dealer and they advised him to replace the front ball joints. The vehicle was repaired once before and the failure recurred within 60,000 miles. The manufacturer was not contacted to report the failure and the vehicle was not further repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 129,000. The VIN was unavailable.
Death wobble on 2005, dodge ram 2500 4x4 cummings diesel. I was traveling 50 to 60 MPH and the front end started shaking violently after hitting uneven pavement. It caused me to swerve in front of a semi tractor trailer who luckily stopped in time as I drove off the side of the interstate. This is not the first time it happened. Last time, approximately 6 months ago, I bought new tires. It seemed to help for a few months but it eventually happened again; once two weeks ago and twice today. The tires have very little wear. Today it ripped out the left front stabilizer link. When I bought the new tires, I told the service technician about it and he said I needed new wheel bearings, upper and lower ball joints, tie rod ends, right front axle u-joints, and stabilizer links; adds up to over $3,000. This truck only has 150,000 miles.
While traveling westbound on ga 53 towards rome, ga. As I entered a very long sweeping right curve at 60 MPH, I hit a pothole or something in the roadway. It may have just been the raised tar strips from the dot's patching job, they are pretty rough. My steering wheel starting teetering left and right extremely violently at about a 20-25 degrees. Within seconds the entire front end was hopping to and from causing the truck to move in a straight path even though I was in the middle of a right handed curve of a state hwy! Luckily there wasn't any traffic in the left-hand lane because that's where the truck went. I applied the brakes hard and slowed to about 20 MPH and it just stop and was all normal again! As I was reeling from the experience and hoping it didn't break anything in, under or on my truck, I realized traffic was rapidly approaching from behind so I accelerated quickly and at some point around 55mph it started again! This time I applied he brakes more slowly and it seemed to worsen until suddenly at 30 MPH it stopped again. After that I played with my speed and steering to try to get a feel for what was going on with my truck, as I have been hearing of this "death wobble" for several years, but never had experienced it. As I accelerated past 40 MPH and turning the steering wheel even as slightly as just changing lanes it would start up again, but if I straightened up the steering soon enough, it would stop before getting to a full blown wobble again. This is extremely scary and I haven't let my family in the truck since. Please do something with dodge about this before someone gets hurt or killed!
2005 dodge ram 2500. Has death shake. Steering box stabilizer, duel steering stabilizer, rancho rs 9000 shocks, ball joints alignment radiouse arm bushing, and complete front end checked by respectable ase mechanic. I bought a 2500 truck for hauling trailer, plus just the heavy duty aspect of the pickup. I cant drive over 70mph without worrying. Even worse when pulling a trailer. Dodge needs to do something about this. I ask a dodge dealer about it and they act stupid, like they never heard of it. The least that dodge could do is send a bulletin to dodge dealers on how to fix it a, but I think its a major expensive design flaw, otherwise dodge would of corrected this dangerous problem years ago. $1900 worth of part and labor later, and still no fix. This is major b.s. This has happened maybe 15 times in the last year and a half I have owned the truck. Would have been alot more if I didn't have to babysit the truck so bad. Its pretty bad when you cant go over 50mph with a loaded car trailer being pulled by a 2500 pickup and have to worry about loosing control so easily. Someone please do something about this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was driving on a 2 lane asphalt road at approximately 55mph. I was crossing a bridge and when I got to the end, there was a low spot in the roadway. When the truck hit the bump, the front end started shaking violently and uncontrollably and I had to hit the brakes and slow to 25 MPH before it quit. On 12/17/2010 my wife was driving this vehicle at 70 MPH on I-35. She said she hit an expansion joint in the roadway and the truck started shaking violently and she could not control it and went off into the center median before bringing it under control.
Death wobble after hitting a bump.
'death wobble': severe shaking of the front suspension. Happened at speeds over 45 MPH, usually after hitting small bumps or irregular road surfaces. Several (6-8) episodes over 1 month period. Required decrease of speed from highway speeds to less than 30 MPH or even full stop to end episode. In one particular episode (8/11/10)was towing up an incline on a two lane highway was forced to slow from 65 MPH to 25mph while trying to move onto narrow shoulder to avoid danger with other traffic behind us. Despite no noted worn out suspension components (inspected by independent and dealer mechanics, some tie rod wear noted only) repair involved replacing steering components, pitman arm, tie rods & ball joints. Dealer retained old parts.
We own a 2005 dodge 2500 4x4 has only 56,000 on it we get a very bad wobble that causes use to come to a dead stop when going 65 to 70 miles an hour when hitting a bump in road or a uneven area. Replace steering damper did not help had front end looked at by dodge dealer said everything looks good.
2005 dodge ram 2500 diesel 4x4 truck experiences frequent sudden loss of control due to front wheel shimmy (death wobble). Received recall notice but dealer stated my vehicle is not included in that recall. There is a tsb (22-005-006)on it but it should be a recall.
2005 dodge ram 2500 quad cab 4x4, I get a very, very bad front end shake, also known as the death wobble whenever I hit a small pothole or dip in the highway. Usually happens at speeds above 50 miles per hour. Took it to the dealership and they replaced the track bar bushings.
I own a 2005 dodge ram 2500 4x4 and am constantly experiencing what is known as the death wobble. This is when the front end starts shaking violently, to the point where the vehicle loses all control. This happens every time I hit a bump, pothole, bridge, anything in the road. This is experienced at speeds of 30mph and above. I experience this issue about once a week. I am not the only one with this issue, there are hundreds and hundreds of people online that are experiencing this issue. The issue is none of them know to file a complaint on here to get the ball rolling against daimler chrysler.
While driving over a flyover (onramp) to get onto I-40 my 2005 dodge 3/4ton truck hit a bump and the front end starting jumping all over the road, the steering wheel started shaking violently. I almost went into the cement wall which could have resulted in a accident and possibly severe injury. This has happened twice since the first incident. This is a real safety concern for me and possibly other drivers on the road.
Driving on the hwy 5 doing 70 MPH long straight away hit a bump and it felt like all my tires popped at once. Very violent shaking through out the whole truck! Had to pull over to get it to stop shaking before I lost control and crashed into another car! Have spent $2000 trying to fix this problem! A dodge 2500 2005.
Tl*the contact owns a 2005 dodge ram 2500. During a front end alignment, the dealer stated that the wheel bearings were worn out. There were no recalls for the failure and the warranty was not valid. The contact was awaiting repairs. The failure and current mileages were under 84,000. Updated 2/17/10 *cn updated 02/22/10
Front left tire wore very unevenly w/ 85k miles. Truck vibrates and bounces. Replaced all tires. Truck still vibrates with new tires and seems to have a self perpetuated bounce - most often occurs at 45 to 65 MPH, under light acceleration, while making a long swooping right curve - but happens elsewhere less frequently. Certified dodge shop followed tsb and replaced original tie rod (no longer available by itself) with multiple arm damper / tie/ pitman arm parts # 68039930-aa, 52106909-ae, 52122362-ae, 52122370-ab. Truck still vibrates and bounces - very unsettling! You definitely feel like you don't have complete control of the truck while it's bouncing. Add ice or snow and ????also new damper parts now squeak when body leans - like when I take a hard right at low speeds in a parking lot. Returned to shop. They suggested I change differential fluid (never done to date), so we did. Made vibrations a little less noticeable, (steering wheel and shift lever don't dance as much) but did not fix the problem. Shop said dodge is working on some other kind of fix (tsb) that may pertain to my problem, but they don't know yet because it hasn't been released. Something about a sleeve that goes over some existing part. I contacted dodge directly to see if I could find out more information about what the problem and what they are working on to fix it. They wouldn't tell me anything except to maybe try another authorized dodge shop if I wasn't happy with the work they did. This is '!@#$%'.! You know dodge knows something. Didn't we learn anything from the ford pinto? Atleast tell people that you are working on something so we don't waste our hard earned money on pointless repairs that won't fix the problem. My truck is a 05' dodge 2500 crew cab 5 spd manual. Problem started around 80k miles - truck now has 97k miles.
I have a 2005 dodge ram 4x4 (3rd generation ram). When I hit an irregular road condition such as the transition from a bridge to the road, or a bump or pot hole, at speeds over 45 MPH the front end on the truck shakes violently. It causes the entire truck to shake violently and takes a bit of muscle to hold onto the steering wheel to keep it from getting out of control. Dodge has replaced (so far) the wheel bearings three separate times, they also replaced the entire steering linkage (tie rods, control arm ect..), ball joints at my expense to the tune of $1,200. They also recommended I put on a dual steering stabilizer which I did (cost $140). All of this and the truck still had the ?death wobble?. I then put on dual shock absorbers and filled the tires to 60 psi (10 psi over recommended) and the ?death wobble went away. It has been about 8,000 miles since I was able to make it go away and now it is coming back intermittently. I have had this problem intermittently since the truck has had about 38,000 miles. I have several friends with the same problem with their 3rd generation ram 2500 and 3500 series 4x4?s. Dodge recognizes that there is a problem but does not know what the cause is. They have issued tsb # k15782911. I have had my truck in on this tsb and I believe the work was done but the "death wobble" remained until I put on dual shocks and excessive tire pressure. This condition causes the entire truck to shake violently. My wife has driven off the road when it happened to her. The only way to make it stop is to slow down to a crawl quickly. It is a recurring problem that is happening to a lot of owners. I think the front axles on these vehicles should be recalled.
My truck shakes violently at 70mph then it stops when I slow down to 45mph. I've put my stock tiers and rims on and still does it. No one is able to find any thing wrong with the truck.
Pick-up experiences a violent wobble in the front end at higher speeds. The only way to make it stop is to slow down below 20 mpg. Very dangerous situation!!!
An intermittent front end shimmy happens often, but twice now I have been driving at highway speeds and hit a bump and the front end went out of control, wobbling back and forth and hopping uncontrollably, when I hit the brakes it got worse so all I could do is coast until the it stopped, both times it stopped once I got down to about 40 MPH. One of these times my son was with me and I thought for sure the truck was going to roll or go out of control. My wife happen to be following me and she was in the lane next to me and a little behind me, her and my daughter said it looked like my wheels where going to fall off the way they where wobbling. This has happened both with front tire pressure at 40psi and 60psi. It was much worse when the tires where at 60psi after looking this up on the internet I found what people are calling a death wobble and they also say dodge has a tsb # 22-055-06 for this problem, but I am unable to find anything on it from dodge. My truck is a 2005 dodge ram 2500 4x4 four door.
Massive uncontrollable shaking in the front end of my truck. I can not drive my truck over 50 miles per hour without fear that I will loose control if it starts to shake and not be able to get it off of the road without rolling it or hitting another vehicle. It does this any time you hit a bump or go over an extension joint in the road. I have replaced the front end bearings, all 4 shocks, had a front end alignment and put new tires on it.
2005 dodge truck / ram/ pick up/ 4x4/2 door/ diesel continues to shake violently. I have to come to a complete stop to stop the shaking. Dodge service continues to charge me the fix the problem however the death shake returns. Dodge has charged me over $10,000 in repairs & still not fixed. I believe they know what the problem is & they can't fix it as it is a major design flaw. Now they're telling me a couple of new front tires will "fix" the problem. So far, I have bought new steering linkage, tires, balance tires, front end alignment, steering dampener, hub brake. Now they are telling me the replace the axles for $ 2,000.
Front wheel bearing is bad. Same issue as the federal safety agency campaign number is 07v‑038 (or 07v038000 except my truck is a 2005 dodge 2500 diesel 4x4 slt.
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