2014 Ram 2500 acceleration problems

Filed Nov 26, 2021 · Acceleration, Transmission · 230,000 miles · TX

The contact owns a 2014 Ram 2500. The contact stated that while driving at 20 MPH, he temporarily released the accelerator pedal and when he depressed it again the vehicle failed to respond. There were no warning lights illuminated. The contact stated that he veered to the side of the road. The contact stated that after he disconnected and reconnected the battery terminals, he was able to restart the vehicle and the accelerator pedal responded when depressed. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who diagnosed that the accelerator sensor needed to be replaced. The contact stated that the accelerator sensor was replaced; however, the failure reoccurred five times. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 230,000.

Filed Oct 21, 2019 · Acceleration, Suspension · 50,000 miles · MN

The cruise control on the vehicle doest work. It seems to be something wrong with the system, because it starts to somewhat work when I reboot the system to factory settings. After a while, the system just stops working. I guess that this is something a lot of people go through, since there's tons of youtube videos about people trying to fix it.

Filed Aug 31, 2019 · Acceleration, Airbags · 24,000 miles · IL

The truck was recalled and repaired or up dated as per recall notices. Then I started having trouble with my cruise control. My dealer checked the switch and fuse , they where ok. The tech said there is maybe something broke in the clock spring. I only have 29k on the truck. I think they may have broke something in one of the recall fixes. There seems to be other people with the same trouble. I don't think they fixing the recalls properly. Why should I pay for their guess work and/or sloppy work.

Filed May 17, 2019 · Acceleration, Steering · 122,500 miles · TX

Tl* the contact owns a 2014 ram 2500. The contact received notification of the federal safety agency campaign number: 15v541000 (steering). While driving at an unknown speed, the vehicle experienced the death wobble and was uncontrollable. Additionally, the vehicle failed to accelerate above 35 MPH. There were no warning indicators illuminated. The vehicle was towed to lone star chrysler dodge jeep ram (8811 interstate 35 access rd, san antonio, tx 78211, (210) 828-1515) who stated that the vehicle had been modified. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was approximately 122,500.

Filed Jan 30, 2019 · Acceleration, Transmission · 76,000 miles · NC · crash

On december 21st, 2018 I took my truck to a car wash. Following the initial cleaning the attendant placed the truck in neutral, exited the truck, engaged the track mechanism and walked back to the next truck in line. I was in the glassed in area watching. Without warning the truck went to full throttle racing through the car wash tunnel and hitting a toyota van waiting to be moved to the next cleaning point. I watched as the attendant tried to race down the tunnel after the truck. Just as the truck struck the van he entered and put the truck in park. The engine slowed from full throttle to what appeared to be normal. I filed a complaint with chrysler. They had a third party run a diagnostic program on my truck. They sent the information to chrysler engineers. I received a phone call telling me chrysler was not responsible for the incident. I have written them again telling them I thought their investigation was incomplete since they spoke to no one on staff at the car wash or review the video of the event. They implied the problem was caused by after market mats. Since I was present and observed the incident, I am not satisfied with that explanation and have asked them to state to me in writing my truck is safe to drive. I do not anticipate that happening as I believe they are playing a classic game of cya. There is a video of the event as it happened. *tr *dt *dt

Filed Oct 14, 2018 · Acceleration, Electrical · 103,256 miles · WV

I have been receiving a fault code on my truck for "electronic throttle control" I take it to an auto parts store and dealership to only be told no codes are present, even when they see the light on the dash. Since having the code pop up my fuel consumption has increased drastically. My avg mpg went from 14.6mpg to 10.2mpg, with the same driving conditions and same route that I have driven the last 4 years. I have had both the dealership and auto parts store clear the codes that are present, the light goes out. But will return within minutes of driving. But yet no fault codes for it specifically. I have searched the net for this issue and have found several articles on multiple dodge, ram and crystler vehicles doing this same issue with the dealership telling them the same thing. For me to be consuming a larger amount of fuel with driving the same route and conditions this has to be doing something drastic and damaging to the emission and engine.

Filed Aug 21, 2018 · Acceleration, Engine · 20,000 miles · MI

We have had this vehicle excellerating on its own for over two years when you let off the break after a stoplight the truck excel rate to 1500 RPM is making it very difficult to stop this condition happens anytime of the year and all driving conditions as well does it whenever it feels like it

Filed Oct 25, 2017 · Acceleration, Steering · 64,000 miles · FL

I noticed my steering wheel was off center. Also the electronic stability control system was going off repeatedly. I took it to a dealership for inspection and they found no "codes" in the computer and could not get the ESC to go off while driving. They neglected to notice my steering was off center. They said nothing was wrong with the vehicle and to just turn off the ESC and if it went off again to stop and turn the truck on and off again. I had the wheels aligned thinking this was the problem. The truck seemed sensitive while driving over bumps in the road but I didn't realize the issue. A few days later while driving on the interstate at 70 MPH the truck began to shake violently and would not stop until I reduced the speed to 20 MPH. It was extremely dangerous and hard to drive or steer while it was shaking. It did this again 3 more times. I kept the speed at 55-60 MPH and was able to get the vehicle home without incident. I took it in to the dealer the next morning and they drove it barely a mile and the steering almost completely failed. I could have had total steering failure and lost control of the vehicle. My truck has approximately 64,000 miles it is 3 years old and it has never been wrecked.

Filed Jun 1, 2017 · Acceleration · 100 miles · CA

"dead pedal" issue- when you need to accelerate quickly in traffic, and you push the accelerator pedal more than about 70%, the truck just sits there... Like there is no power. It will eventually (4-6 seconds later) slowly increase speed, or if you feather the pedal, it will accelerate into traffic. This is a safety concern when pulling into traffic from a side street, or other times when entering faster moving traffic. It does not seem to be turbo lag, but rather some kind of programing in the drive train that keeps the truck from accelerating briskly when pushing on the pedal..... This happens frequently, the listed date is the last time I felt it. It has happened at least 30-40 times since I have bought the truck new in jan 2013. Note: I am not talking about being able to drag race or smoke tires... I am talking about when you need to quickly pull out into traffic... Definite safety issue...

Filed Oct 27, 2016 · Acceleration · 1,000 miles · CT

My 2014 ram 2500 6.7 diesel truck has a problem with a throttle hesitation in certain situations (dead pedal) the problem is if you give it some throttle and then you let off slightly and reapply the throttle again the truck will not respond to the throttle input for a couple of seconds! This situation can be very dangerous and has put me in a bad situation several times nearly causing an accident! This needs to be addressed!