Dodge Ram trucks buyback ordered
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration just ordered Fiat Chrysler to buy back 500,000 Ram trucks and Jeeps. (link) This is an FYI, not a flame on Chrysler. Not trying to start a brand wars...
Forum Discussion
Super_Dave wrote:
When I took my truck in for a front end recall they said my truck wasn't one of the ones in the recall. My ball joints still failed at 50,000 miles. As tbred states, the recall work doesn't fix all the ills.
Ball joints are suspension components, not steering. And mine failed too and were replaced at 40k miles. Put some Moogs in and you'll be good.
woodhog wrote:
It finally caught up with them, they put the first heavy diesel in a pickup back in the early nineties, mated it to the largest car transmission they had in the automatics, from then on it was failed transmissions for many years, early ball joint failure, sway bar end links broken,hub bearings failing, universal joints failing in the front end, universal joints failing in the drive shafts...it took them until the latest chassis design in 2012 to get the suspension right...
Quite the mess..
Dodge started putting Cummins engines in their trucks in the '80s. The trucks made at that time did not have ball joints (kingpins) nor did they did not have hub bearings (because they had tapered roller bearings).
