Two days later his tranny blew, they replaced it. Two weeks later, his tranny blew, they replaced it. My brother, unknown to me, bought the same truck 2004 Dodge Ram Pickup, new. These have an electric controlled torque converter, which is pure junk. Coincidentally, the problem with the tranny was this Dodge was scrapping 4 of 5 transmissions straight off the line for problems (before installation) with the torque converter. They put it in auction and got shy of $4000 for it, still overpriced for that piece of junk. At that point the truck was not worth the balance of $12,000 still owed on it. It never did fail before I turned it back in two years later for 5 bad water pumps in one year, with the heater core failing and blowing a leak from all the additives put in from pump failures. I told the salesman, its on record, my complaint, and if it failed they would be held responsible. The last time, an outside Dodge dealer came back with their conclusion, "NORMAL". It went back 3 times, with multiple mechanics and our friend, the salesman, all listening and agreeing, sounds like a bad transmission. Well within my 30 days I reported a grinding noise between gears and howling in gear,shifting fine. At that time I needed a truck badly for my business. I took it without signing anything for 3 days. When it runs bad trying to pick up speed xtar gas peddle does not help when all of a sudden the engine noise changes & its all power again & the truck runs like a bat out of hell, anybody have an idea I can try !!!!!!!!!!!!īought this Truck used, Barberino Dodge Wallingford, Ct, had 30 days warranty from dealer. If anyone has any ideas please let me know. I went to Vegas a few years ago & the truck was running ok I valet but when they brought my truck back to me it ran real bad, I could only get 15 miles per hour, had to go back to the hotel & call my son to send me the super chip I left at home, he had to send it by fed x I got it the next morning and was able to reprogram my truck, the truck ran ok after that (for a while). I did buy a super chip which I use from time to time when the truck is running real bad(super bad). The problem I still have is the good/poor performance ,when going up an incline when the truck is running good all power no problem, when the truck is running poor it has a hard time climbing the incline it can not hold the speed, the truck will down shift a lot, now this is a off & on thing!!!! same problem getting on an on ramp, when it is running good it has all power when running poor it has a hard time picking up speed when I need it most. after it was repaired I had no more problems with crossing an intersection. a mechanic at orange repair said I had a vacuum leak somewhere, Now this time frame was 5 years later, so I took it to Beech dodge (we left the engine lite on) dodge called me & asked if anyone been missing around with the truck, I asked why & dodge told me I was missing a gasket in the egr valve from the factory. Tustin dodge told me it was the nature of the beast. took it in several times for a running issue, was bad trying to cross a intersection, had a bad hesitation.
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