1995 Dodge Ram suspension problems

Filed Mar 14, 2005 · Acceleration, Electrical · 300,000 miles · AR

The dealership was unable to perform the ignition switch wiring recall #00v135000, and the throttle cable recall# 01v037000 because the parts were not available. It has been 60 days. *nm recall campaign; the consumer stated that it has now been 3 months and the parts are still not available. *tc the consumer has since found a part on his own.

Filed Jan 15, 2004 · Body, Engine · 17,000 miles · WY

This truck body started breaking out behind the cab soon after I bought it. The engine has never ran right from day one. It was in the dodge shop numerous times because of poor fuel milage, and then dodge finally agreed to send the truck to cummins. Cummins found that truck had bad milage also and wrote letter to dodge stating the problems they found. Dodge more or less said tough, don't bother us! The engine had boken push rod at low milage and now an injector melted top out of piston ruining the engine.

Filed Nov 7, 2002 · Suspension · CA

While traveling about 50mph on the highway without prior warning. The vehicle became uncontrollable to steer and there was vibration due to the suspension. Please provide additional information. Dealer is aware of the problem. Ts

Filed Sep 12, 2002 · Suspension · MA

While driving and if vehicle hits a bump it feels as if vehicle is falling apart. Consumer feels as if losing control, and has to slow vehicle down considerably, and pull over to side of road. Vehicle has been checked by dealer, who replaced numerous suspension components., but problem still exists.

Filed Mar 11, 2002 · Suspension · LA

Vehicle is squeaking and creaking. Front end is lower than usual. Took vehicle to dealer, and dealer indicated it needed to repair upper and lower ball joints.

Filed Oct 30, 2001 · Suspension · NY

99 v 214 000/suspension, unable to get the dealer metro auto mall; queen village, ny; phone # 718/479-6452 to honor recall repairs properly. Manufacturers representative had to be called in to inform dealer to make corrections on repairs, currently dealer is unable to correct problem due to improper tools. *ak consumer was recently notified that the body shop that did the repair originally borrowed the correct welding equipment, and was informed that the repairs would be taken care and to come back to the body shop, consumer inspected the welding equipment machine and it was incorrect per the requirements for the safety recall.

Filed Oct 18, 2001 · Suspension · AL

Received recall notice 99v214000. Contacted dealership, and was informed no one at dealership available to do recall repairs on suspension's coil spring. Had contacted manufacturer, and informed co called consumer back. Consumer has been waiting for several months and no call.

Filed Oct 1, 2001 · Suspension · NY

Steering shuddered while driving between 45 and 55 MPH and when hitting a bump or pothole in the road. Vehicle vibrating and shuddering uncontrollably through steering wheel. Also, in order to regain control of vehicle had to drop speed around 20 MPH. Contacted dealer, and dealer stated there was a tsb for that problem. Consumer complied with tsb, but still had problems.

Filed Sep 19, 2001 · Suspension · IN

Dodge ram trucks have a known history of "self sustaining vibration" or "shimmy" after striking a small bump, or offset in the road. See dodge tsb 19-05-96 and other steering related issues. We have had our vehicle worked on twice due to extremely violent shimmying that has nearly caused complete loss of control of the truck on 6 seperate occassions. Only by incredible luck and skill has there not been serious accidents and fatalities. The tsb I just referenced suggests that the service personnel "test drive the vehicle over a road that duplicates the customer complaint and if shimmying is felt perform ..." this is woefully inadequate in that this problem can not be replicated by such a procedure. The fact remains that one can drive hundreds if not thousands of miles over the same road and the problem will not reproducibly appear. But, with absolutely no notice, and at random, the violent self sustaining and propagating shaking will suddenly occur and one will nearly wreck. During the last such episode which occurred last week, the violent shaking was so great that a 140 pound cardboard box about 18 inches high was nearly thrown out over the side of the truck. This incident occured at a speed of about 65 miles per hour on a curve on the interstate when the front tire of the truck hit a hole in the road that was about 4 inches wide, 1 foot long, and maybe an inch deep. In other words, the bump was nothing. Fortunately I was in the middle lane on the interstate and all of the other cars around me hit their breaks when they saw the truck bouncing and leaping down the road. To further complicate things the violent bouncing only gets worse when you apply the brakes. The only quick way to restore control of the vehicle is to violently jerk the steering wheel back and forth, unfortunately this requires both lanes of the road and the emergency lanes. There does not appear to be an adequate "fix" to this problem from dodge.

Filed Aug 4, 2001 · Suspension · UT

The trailer hitch issue, I beleve, is serious. "out of sight, out of mind" a recall has been issued for 1998 to 2001.5 models. Investagtion should be extended to the 1994 models this is serious. Also the track bar issue, this effects the handling of the vehicle the so called "shimmy" this also needs to be looked in to.