I'm not going to file 15 complaints because its too much to detail here is a summary: The truck is a 2015 Ram 5,7 vibrated so severely at 159 miles, I had to pull off to the berm. It felt like a flat tire bouncing. It came from the rear tire passenger side the power wheel. After a 5 minute rest I forget if I turned the engine off. I went on our bypass at 60 to 80 mph but I could not duplicate it.
Dealer would not repair it unless I duplicated it with service mgr in truck. However after reading Ram blogs for 3 days, I asked the dealer to remove the drive from the yoke and turn the drive shaft 180 degrees. This did not cure the problem but it diminished future vibrations to date it vibrated 15 times.
I filed a federal lemon law suit and I'm awaiting the first response from Ram/attorney, could take 4 more months. One blog owner reported that his dealer changed out the front and rear axle and it cured it. Good luck talking your way into that repair to save other owners money.
Here is what doesn't work: it's not the tires not the calipers, not the balancing of the tires either. It's intermittent it appears and I'm not a mechanic that transmission sensors over heat after 30 minutes of driving. Sometimes resting or rebooting the computer by turning off the engine and sitting for 15 minutes works, but not always. Sometimes once it starts. It will do it all day at any speed even at 30 -40 mph I can feel my seat shaking..one owner of a 2013 crew cab got his repaired via recall he said they replaced a bunch of sensors and pinion nut....I asked another owner how he fixed his met him at swap meet he said he didn't bother the dealer waste of time he was a retired mechanic so he took it to a machine drive train shop and had the shaft re-balanced another guy (by the way theses fixes can void the warranty) Put a quart of Lucas in the rear end. He said every Dodge truck he and his son owned vibrated and every year they bought a new one they added Lucas. The last guy I met said at 60000 miles he bought it used the transfer case exploded into a hundred pieces. The drive shaft put a 10 inch hole in the floor board. Dodge would not fix it so his insurance company paid $10,000 in repairs, plus he paid co pay. After the repair he took it out to highway, it still vibrated at 65 mph and higher so he drive 64 mph.
Well guys and gals you figure it out. I'm buying a Tundra when I get my money back.
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I'm not going to file 15 complaints because its too much to detail here is a summary: The truck is a 2015 Ram 5,7 vibrated so severely at 159 miles, I had to pull off to the berm. It felt like a flat tire bouncing. It came from the rear tire passenger side the power wheel. After a 5 minute rest I forget if I turned the engine off. I went on our bypass at 60 to 80 mph but I could not duplicate it.
Dealer would not repair it unless I duplicated it with service mgr in truck. However after reading Ram blogs for 3 days, I asked the dealer to remove the drive from the yoke and turn the drive shaft 180 degrees. This did not cure the problem but it diminished future vibrations to date it vibrated 15 times.
I filed a federal lemon law suit and I'm awaiting the first response from Ram/attorney, could take 4 more months. One blog owner reported that his dealer changed out the front and rear axle and it cured it. Good luck talking your way into that repair to save other owners money.
Here is what doesn't work: it's not the tires not the calipers, not the balancing of the tires either. It's intermittent it appears and I'm not a mechanic that transmission sensors over heat after 30 minutes of driving. Sometimes resting or rebooting the computer by turning off the engine and sitting for 15 minutes works, but not always. Sometimes once it starts. It will do it all day at any speed even at 30 -40 mph I can feel my seat shaking..one owner of a 2013 crew cab got his repaired via recall he said they replaced a bunch of sensors and pinion nut....I asked another owner how he fixed his met him at swap meet he said he didn't bother the dealer waste of time he was a retired mechanic so he took it to a machine drive train shop and had the shaft re-balanced another guy (by the way theses fixes can void the warranty) Put a quart of Lucas in the rear end. He said every Dodge truck he and his son owned vibrated and every year they bought a new one they added Lucas. The last guy I met said at 60000 miles he bought it used the transfer case exploded into a hundred pieces. The drive shaft put a 10 inch hole in the floor board. Dodge would not fix it so his insurance company paid $10,000 in repairs, plus he paid co pay. After the repair he took it out to highway, it still vibrated at 65 mph and higher so he drive 64 mph.
Well guys and gals you figure it out. I'm buying a Tundra when I get my money back.
- counselor3, Indiana, PA, US