Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEERING | |||
| 03/01/2012 | 98090 | ||
| Steering woobles/shakes violently when driving. often initiated by a minor irregularity in road pavement. requires coming to a full stop to eliminate the wobble. reoccurs often. difficult to exceed 30mph in order to avoid shaking. no noticebly bad or broken suspension parts. | |||
| 07/01/2008 | 45000 | ||
| Tl* the contact owns a 1996 dodge ram 3500. while driving approximately 45 mph, the front end of the vehicle began to shake vigorously. the vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic for diagnostic testing where the mechanic performed repairs to the steering assembly. the contact was unaware of the exact repairs performed. approximately two years after the repair, the failure recurred. the vehicle was not further repaired. the approximate failure mileage was 45,000. | |||
| 07/01/2008 | 45000 | ||
| Tl- the contact owns a 1996 dodge ram 3500. while driving at approximately 45 mph the front end of the vehicle began to shake vigorously. the vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic for diagnostic. the mechanic performed repairs to the steering assembly. the contact was unaware of the exact repairs performed. approximately two years after the repair was performed the front end began to shake again. the vehicle was not repaired. the approximate failure mileage was 45,000. ds | |||
| 03/26/2011 | 136000 | ||
| 1996 dodge 3500 4x4 dually has a front end shake at any speed have put new balljoints in put a new track bar in than put a double front steering stabilizer on and the truck still shakes after it does it once and you have to try and get out of hihway trafic and stop it will just randomly keep doing it bump or not just a rough road | |||
| STEERING - COLUMN | |||
| 05/15/2003 | 2 | ||
| Brakes pull to right, calibers and pads have been replaced. rear brakes don't seem to work well antilock allows you to roll to far. steering column goes bad after warranty is up ( 100,000 miles ). fuel pump shut down solenoid and relay have also gone out on both of my trucks. automatic transmission failures have occurred on both trucks at the 70000-75000 miles . *nlm | |||
| STEERING - GEAR BOX (OTHER THAN RACK AND PINION) | |||
| 07/01/1996 | 1 | 06/21/1996 | |
| While traveling when road was warm and over a bump tire would leave skid marks on road. vehicle would travel from left to right. *ak at 65 mph, the front tires makes deep skid marks on the road until the vehicle stops. the square shaft from the steering wheel and steering box makes noise while driving. *yh | |||
| STEERING - LINKAGES | |||
| 05/20/1998 | |||
| While driving 30 mph, the steering pitman arm that connects the steering wheel to the power steering pump came off. driver lost control of the truck and side swiped two parked cars. the steering arm has been replaced. *ak | |||