Complaint 1755561

2001 DODGE RAM 1500 • POWER TRAIN • incident Jul 1, 2021

Crash
No
Fire
No
Injuries
0
Deaths
0
Complaint ID
1755561
Make
DODGE
Model
RAM 1500
Model Year
2001
Component
POWER TRAIN
Incident Date
Jul 1, 2021
Date Received
Jul 5, 2021
Data As Of
Sep 1, 2026

Complaint Summary

POWER TRAIN

Owner Narrative

There have been three times now in the last two years, six-eight months of which I never drove the vehicle due to being repaired. I was driving at about 60-70mph. At which time there were no odd or sudden noises, no warning at all when the trucks acceleration goes way up till I let of the gas pedal, go to pull over while two of the three times, my drive shaft is bouncing between the road and underneath the truck which could have bounced up into another vehicle's windshield, radiator or whatever and could have actually hurt or even killed someone. Thank God nothing like that ever happened. After inspecting the problem, in which all three cases, the transfer case has broken off part of the tailshaft of the transmission and once, even broke part of the transfer case to. After trying to look up the problem on line, the exact same problem seems to have happened to several people from several different states and even one same instance from the same small town that I'm in. All the same instances that I've seen have been from the same type of vehicle from the years of 1995-2001. It just seems like a wide spread problem to me

Owner-submitted narrative on file with NHTSA. Complaint narratives are self-reported and have not been verified.