2008 dodge ram 2500 6.7l 6spd...driving home from work and starting hearing a clunking sound. Made appointment to drop off at dealer. Dealer said the spare tire was loose and reinstalled. Picked truck up drove home started to clunk again. Check the truck out myself and found transfer case bolts broken off. I was not going to waste fuel to take it back, installed bolts myself. At about 22,000 miles clunking again, found bolts broken again. Made appointment dropped off to have repaired. Truck now has 88,500 on it and I've replaced the bolts about 7 times now. Seems like every 10,000 to 15,000 miles they break. Will be replacing bolts again. It feels like the rear end is sliding out when you make a turn when the bolts are broken.
2008 Dodge RAM 2500 transmission complaints
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Tl* the contact owns a 2008 dodge ram 2500. The contact stated that the transfer case on the vehicle exploded while they were traveling 70 MPH. The contact was able to pull over without incident. The contact spoke with the dealer and was not given a reason for the failure. The failure mileage and current mileages were 103,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2008 dodge ram 2500. The contact stated that while traveling 70 MPH, the transfer case failed. The vehicle was towed to a dealer where the failure could not be diagnosed. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was contacted about the failure. The failure mileage was 106,000.
Heading to town to take 2008 dodge ram to the dealership to have looked at for stalling at idle and no foot pedal response. Shut truck off and restarted now I have throttle.. Anyways headed to dealership to have these thing looked at. Im on the interstate cruise control set at 70mph. I go over a slight dip on the interstate than experience what feels like two blown front tires. The entire truck is shaking violently. Its all I can do to hold onto the steering wheel. The truck feels like its going to fall apart. I get on the brakes start pulling to the side of the road at about 10miles an hour this violent vibration stops. This incident was the scariest incident I've been through. I inspected the truck nothing visible wrong so I continued on to dealership with no problems.. 15 minutes later I stopped shaking. Told service man at dealership what just happened and he says oh you just experienced the death wobble.. Are you serious they have a nickname for this and are still selling these vehicles at 40,000 a piece. I refused to sign the work agreement and left the truck there. I will not pay to have this truck fixed. This vehicle is a serious danger to the driver, passengers and any other vehicles on the road. After research I found many other incidents of what I have described. Go to youtube and type dodge death wobble. Vehicle manufactures should be responsible for there product. Concerned and productive united states citizen..
This is the second time this problem happened in 7 months. I was sitting at a light and started to accelerate, the exhaust brake engaged and prevented me from moving forward. I was able to move by slightly depressing the accelerator a little at a time. When I approached my next traffic light, the engine RPM dropped to 500 and then shot up to 1200 rpms. When this happened the truck lurched forward and almost hit a pedestrian in the crosswalk. It also put me half way into a busy intersection. There were multiple close calls that could have caused injury or death. The truck is currently at the dealer again but I am very concerned about this issue. It seems I am not the only person this has happened to.
On a 2008, 2500 ram diesel with a manual transmission, failed to engage in gear while towing. First time (june 2008) the transmission failed the vehicle had approx. 10,000 miles and would not shift to lower gears. I took it to dealer who said nothing was wrong. Truck is now at dealer with over 17000 miles and they say it now needs a new clutch. Yesterday while towing vehicle failed to downshift and every stop the truck had to be shut down to engage transmission. The vehicle also launches forward while the clutch is depressed after I get it in gear. I have less then 18000 miles on the truck and 15000 miles are highway miles a clutch should not fail without having something else wrong. I was with a friend of mine, who is a diesel tech. When the transmission failed to engage, he said he believed it was the hydraulic system failing to engage the clutch. Yesterday while making a left turn, in the middle of a intersection I had to shut the vehicle off and engage the transmission. I was lucky no cars were behind me and the light had changed to green for the cross traffic who had to wait until I turned the truck off to engage the gears and restart the truck.
Started with a rattle coming from the front end. Rattles whenever you drive it.. I can't say what the outcome would have been had I let the u-joint fail. Dealer replaced the universal joint,front axle shaft. Don't know what became of old part.
My 2008, 2500 dodge truck 4x4 diesel has a bad jerking problem when you let off the fuel and then put it on again. The dealers have changed turbo, wire harnesses, all sensors, egr......... This has been going on since 7000 miles on truck. I have now 47,000. Everyone including the dealer has said all 2008's do this and it is the factory's problem.
When the truck is started and put into gear, the truck will roll about 10 feet and then take off. The driver has to stand on the brakes to get it to stop. The problem is intermittent and tends to occur after it sets for more than 8 hours. It only happens during the first 3 -5 minutes after startup. If driver is unaware of problem it could easily lead to damage to others as it requires a great deal of force to get the truck to stop.
Tl*the contact owns a 2008 dodge ram 2500. While driving 35 MPH, the driver's side u-joint axle failed, which jammed the steering wheel to the right. The contact crashed the vehicle into a telephone pole. He was not injured and a police report was filed. The vehicle was towed to a repair shop. The dealer advised him to call the dodge manufacturer and his insurance company. The manufacturer sent an investigator to inspect the vehicle. The contact then received a letter stating that the failure occurred after he struck the telephone pole; however, he stated that the axle failed prior to the crash. The vehicle is currently being repaired. The failure mileage was 26,177. The consumer believed the u-joints failed due to lack of grease. When the u-joint broke, the axles binded with each other and the axle jammed the spindle making it difficult to steer the vehicle back to the center. . The consumer complained of a noise days prior to the accident, but was told nothing was wrong. Updated 04/22/09.*jb updated 05/04/09 *bf the consumer stated he heard a banging noise in the left front of the vehicle. Right after the noise, the steering went to the right and he jumped the curb. After the accident, the consumer noticed 2 parts from his vehicle were on the street. The parts were 2 ears off the left front axle u-joint. One was male and the other was a female and they were stuck together. Updated 05/04/09.
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