Tl* the contact owns a 2014 ram 3500. In april of 2015, while the vehicle was in reverse, the brakes malfunctioned. The contact's vehicle failed to stop and bumped into a second vehicle. There were no injuries. While driving approximately 60 MPH, the brakes suddenly activated without the brake pedal being applied. During the incident, the brake sensor, ABS sensor and throttle sensor illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who replaced the brake module sensor and transmission sensor, but the failure recurred while being test driven. In november of 2015, the vehicle experienced the failure again. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who replaced the star connector. The failure recurred. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The VIN was not available. The failure mileage was 7,000.
2014 Ram 3500 brakes complaints
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Integrated trailer brake controller fails to provide sufficient braking power to trailer. On several occasions, truck and trailer were in near-miss potential accidents due to insufficient trailer braking. Controller will not hold trailer still while the truck is at rest. Regardless of settings, including max power settings and using the manual slider fully engaged, the controller would not activate the trailer brakes sufficiently to safely slow the trailer in any situation. Trailer in question is approximately 13,000#, dual axle with brakes on both axles. Second trailer was used for testing with similar results, including the inability to cause brake lockup of an empty flatbed trailer. Dealer replaced itbm component(s), with no change. Excused as working properly, even with obviously insufficient braking ability.
Nov 11 2015 my truck flipped during a left hand turn while pulling a 3 car hauler with 2 cars on trailer I was about 25000lbs gross plus or minus 1000lbs. I was on my way to truck stop for fuel when accident happened. My truck has an automatic transmission and the month before was having shifting issues on level ground so I took to dealership for free factory repair/ reprogram transmission have all documents. Nearly 10,000 miles later / 1 month turning and now my truck is on its side my guess is it downshifted and puh pow over it went.
The parking (emergency brake) does not work and never has since vehicle was new. It would lock up at times but then not work to keep vehicle from rolling. This seems rather insignificant until you understand that the vehicle has no park(no parking postion) so the parking brake must work to keep vehicle from rolling, this vehicle will roll anytime motor is off unless parking brake(emergency brake) is engaged. It has been in the shop many times to repair this issue and it has never even been improved!!! Safety issue is that vehicle should never have been allowed to be manufactured with no park! Unlike a standard transmission which can be put in gear with motor off to stop from rolling there is no way on this vehicle other than the parking brake!(emergency brake) I have video of the problem and here is a link to that video. Https://youtu.be/ep_hp3dekmy
The oem trailer brake controller does not work as designed. There has been number or times that I came close hitting a cars. The brake controller is not supplying enough volts to stop my 17k trailer. Took it to the dealer and they said oem brake controller is working fine. When I check controller it's only supplying 6.5 volts when the manual slide is fully engaged. This is a big problem and needs to be address before someone gets killed. By the way my trailer is brand new and works fine with ford and chevy oem brake controller.
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