2001 Dodge RAM 1500

1)2001 DODGE RAM 1500 4X4 QUAD CAB NORMAL DRIVING UNEXPECTED EVENT 2)TRANSMISSION FAILURE TRUCK WOULD NOT MOVE IN ANY GEAR WAS WITHOUT CAR FOR 1 WEEK 3)REBUILT TRANSMISSION AT A COST OF $2,192.80 WHICH I HAD TO PAY TO THE DEALER WHICH SOLD ME THE TRUCK AND I HAD IT FOR 5 MONTHS AND DIDNT EVEN PUT 8,000 MILES ON IT IT HAD 56,000 MILES WHEN I BOUGHT IT AT $17,000.00! WHEN TRANSMISSION FAILED IT HAD 64,000 MILES ON IT. THE FRONT END IS ALSO LOOSE AND THE STEERING IS NOT RIGHT IM AFRAID I MAY LOOSE MY STEERING AND NEEDS REPAIR. AND I FEEL VERY UNSAFE TO DRIVE IT.

OVER A PERIOD OF A FEW MONTHS THE FREON IN MY PICKUP'S AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM ESCAPED UNDER PRESSURE (WHEN THE A/C OR DEFROSTER WERE TURNED ON AND ENGINE RUNNING) INTO THE CAB OF THE TRUCK. I PERIODICALLY NOTICED AN OILY RESIDUE ON THE INSIDE OF THE WIND SHIELD WHEN THE A/C OR DEFROSTER WERE TURNED ON, BUT THOUGHT LITTLE OF IT. SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THE FREON LEAKING UNDER PRESSURE INTO THE CAB, I DEVELOPED SERIOUS MEDICAL PROBLEMS INCLUDING A DIAGNOSIS BY A NEUROLOGIST OF POLYNEUROPATHY FOLLOWING ASCENDING PERIPHAL NEUROPATHY. I LOST FORTY POUNDS IN A TWO MONTH PERIOD. I DID NOT KNOW THE CAUSE OF MY ILLNESS UNTIL THE A/C STOPPED WORKING DUE TO A LACK OF FREON, AND THE MECHANIC TRACED THE LEAK TO THE INSIDE OF THE CAB. I HAVE NOT FULLY RECOVERED FROM THE PROLONGED EFFECTS OF BREATHING THE FREON.IT SEEMS THERE SHOULD BE SOME SORT OF DETECTOR TO INDICATE WHEN A PROBLEM SUCH AS THIS OCCURS. SINCE MY DODGE PICKUP HAD THIS PROBLEM, I SUSPECT THAT OTHERS MAY HAVE HAD THE SAME MALUFUNCTION, AND WOULD LIKE TO WARN OTHER DRIVERS. FORTUNATELY, I WAS THE ONLY USER OF THE TRUCK AND I AM OVER 60 YEARS OLD. MY DR. TELLS ME THAT THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF REGULARLY BREATHING FREON ALMOST DAILY FOR SEVERAL WEEKS IS UNKNOWN AND THAT I MIGHT RECOVER FROM THE NEUROPATHY OR POSSIBLY NOT. MY WEIGHT LOSS OCCURRED CONSIDERABLY IN THE ARMS AND LEGS (CONSISTENT WITH PERIPHAL NEUROPATHY ASSOCIATED WITH BREATHING FREON). PLEASE WARN OTHERS OF THIS PROBLEM.*AK

VEHICLE STARTED EXHIBITING STEERING PROBLEM AT 3000 MILES. THE ORIGINAL DEALERSHIP DID A REALIGNMENT OF THE FRONT END, INSTALLED NEW SHOCKS, WE REPLACED THE TIRES EVEN THOUGH THE ORIGINAL TIRES WERE NOT WORN OUT, AND THE PROBLEM CONTINUED TO GET WORSE. WE HAD THE SHOCKS REPLACED UNDER THE WARRANTY TWICE WITHOUT ANY DIFFERENCE. WE HAD THE FRONT END REALIGNED AT OUR EXPENSE THREE TIMES WITHOUT ANY DIFFERENCE. THE LOCAL DEALERSHIP REPLACED THE PITMAN ARM AND TIE ROD END SLEEVE, AND REALIGNED THE FRONT END TO THE TUNE OF $345.00, AND SAID THIS WOULD SOLVE THE PROBLEM. WHEN THE TRUCK HIT A BUMP OR UNEVEN PLACE IN THE PAVEMENT AT FREEWAY SPEEDS IT WILL START TO SHAKE UNCONTROLLABLY, BUT THIS IS NOT CONSISTENT. IT DOESN'T HAPPEN WITH EVERY BUMP, AND THERE IS NO PREDICTING WHEN IT WILL HAPPEN. IN ORDER TO REGAIN CONTROL, YOU HAVE TO STOP IMMEDIATELY, AND THERE IS GOING TO COME THE TIME WHEN THIS IS GOING TO CAUSE A MULTI-CAR CRASH ON THE FREEWAY! FORTUNATELY THIS HAS NOT HAPPENED YET. THE LOCAL DEALERSHIP, NOT WHERE WE BOUGHT THE TRUCK SINCE WE DON'T LIVE THERE ANYMORE, WANTS TO REPLACE THE ENTIRE FRONT END TO THE TUNE OF $2000.00, BUT THEY DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IS WRONG , AND DODGE SAYS THEY WON'T WARRANTY THIS WORK EVEN THOUGH THIS HAS BEEN ONGOING SINCE 3000 MILES. ALL MILEAGE ON THE TRUCK HAS BEEN HIGHWAY OR CITY MILES. OBVIOUSLY THERE WAS A DEFECTIVE PART INSTALLED ORIGINALLY, AND HAS STEADILY GOTTEN WORSE, BUT THE DEALERSHIP CAN'T PINPOINT THIS DEFECTIVE PART. THE SITUATION HAS NOW GOTTEN VERY DANGEROUS.*AK

I TOOK MY TRUCK TO A DEALERSHIP TO HAVE THE TRANSMISSION LOOKED OUT BEFORE THE WARRANTY OF 36,000 WENT OUT AND THEY STATED THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH IT.THEN WHEN THE TRANSMISSION HAD 50,200 MILES THE TRANSMISSION BURNED UP ..I HAD TO PAY 3200.00 .I CALLED DAIMLER CHRYSLER IN BONHAM.TX AND SPOKE TO A MECHANIC AND STATED IT I COULD FIND THE CAUSE AND IF IT WAS A MANUFACTURING PROBLEM THEY WOULD PAY TO FIX.THEN WHEN WE DID FIND IT WAS A MANUFACTURING PROBLEM DAIMLER CHRYSLER BACKTRACKED AND STATED WAS NOT THEIR PROBLEM .*AK

WHILE DRIVING VEHICLE STALLED. VEHICLE CAUGHT ON FIRE. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS CALLED TO EXTINGUISH THE FIRE. VEHICLE WAS TOWED AND TOTALED BY THE INSURANCE COMPANY. *AK...CONSUMER WAS CONCERNED THAT THERE MIGHT BE A PROBLEM THAT WAS NIT PECULIAR TO THIS VEHICLE BUT THAT COULD BE REPEATED IN OTHER DAIMLER CHRYSLER VEHICLES. IF THERE HAD BEEN A CHILD OR AN ELDERLY PERSON AS A PASSENGER IN THE VEHICLE CONSUMER WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO GET THEM OUT BEFORE THE FLAMES ENGULFED THE VEHICLE. *AK