In 2004 I purchased my beautiful truck, after four years the top dash cracked by a vent. In the last six years it has slowly crept across my dash and into separate areas. I am so annoyed! Not only has that cracked, but the plastic handles you use to pull yourself up into the cab on both the driver and passenger side have had to be replaced three times. They cannot tell me it's heat because I always put sun covers in my front window. And why would the handles break when they are not even in the sun.

I take good care of my truck and it is upsetting that Dodge has chosen not to use high quality material.

Started as one small crack and now it's all the way across. Then the grate over the speaker started to fall apart. Now a second crack has started on the passenger side. It's only a matter of time before the whole thing starts falling in. The worst part is when you tell people about it they say; yep, that's a typical Dodge. Happens to all of them. Be careful when you clean it because it will fall to pieces.

You would think they would do something about it since this isn't a new problem. Guess when enough people start buying their trucks maybe they think about putting better quality parts in them. My in-laws have Fords that are 20 years old with 300,00 miles that don't have the first crack....HMMMM

I cannot believe that there has not been a recall for the dash on my Dodge Ram 1500 Quad Cab. I have never pursued this issue until now because the airbags have a recall and they are most definitely going to have to remove the dash to get to them. The dash is in pieces now. This is definitely a safety issue. I have owned many vehicles and owned them for a long period of time and never had one, new or old, that had a dash problem like my Dodge Ram 1500 Quad Cab.

Once lawsuits are filed for people getting injured by these defective dashes that have fallen apart, then maybe Chrysler will do something about it.

My dash started to crack several years ago and has steadily gotten much worse. I touched the dash the other day and a couple of pieces broke off and fell down in the hole. Fortunately, I was able to fish them back out. They are very hard, thin, brittle, and sharp pieces...almost like glass. I can see this as a real danger now. As you can tell from the low mileage, the truck hardly gets used and is kept clean. I was investigating how difficult it would be to fix it when I came across this site. The 2002 model already has over 350 complaints registered so I figured I better do my part and add my 2004 complaint to the list.

this dash started with crack,i put my finger on it a big chunk fell inside under dash. I contacted chrysler, after a period of time they called and told me to take to nearest dealer, did so, body shop manager, i think came out, to my info, just told me that i would be notified. about 3 weeks or so they called and told me that was out of warranty, but they would replace it for 300.00 dollars. i told that was a defect, and all the dodge trucks that i have purchased that i have never experience this kind of problem, by the way they told me the 300.00 was a service charge. i have had a dodge van and three dodge pickup.

I had bought 2 of these trucks....lucky I sold the other one before the dash started to crumple apart.......it is so bad now there are holes where the air vents are...cracks are running up and down the dash......even the door locks plastic is completely cracking apart........it looks like I just came back from Mexico and was involved in a drug cartel shootout inside the truck....holes and cracks everywhere....this is a disgrace to a truck company...that advertises RAM tough.......I thought it was just my truck.......now on this site I find out everybody has this problem...........so where do we do to fix this problem without spending a fortune on new plastic inside the truck......I need to sell this piece of S.......I will never buy another RAM truck........note to Chrysler...my son just bought a Ford 150 truck because he saw my dashboard and told me he wants his first new truck to last a long time.....he's 21 and he will never buy a Dodge Truck..........do the right thing an issue a recall for the huge problem that you have on your hands..............