Consumer Complaint Detail

DODGE / RAM 1500 / 1998

Recalls
0 Injured
Investigations
0 Death
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No Fire
Components - Details
NHTSA Complaint Number: 004292931 Incident Date: Aug, 06 2004
Consumer's City: PULASKI Consumer's State: NY
Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO Manufacturers Name: Chrysler (FCA US, LLC)
Model Name: RAM 1500 Model Year: 1998
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No Component's Description: Power train:automatic transmission
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No Persons Injured: 0
Vehicle's VIN#: 1B7HF16Y8WS Date added to File: May, 25 2021
Date Complaint Received: Aug, 10 2004 Complaint Type: IVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: No Purchase Date: May, 13 2002
Was Original Owner: No Anti-lock Brakes: Yes
Number of Cylinders: 8 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: While returning home from seeing my first grandchild, south of hershey pa my transmission died at approx. 50,000 miles. i had to have the vehicle towed from the interstate and the transmission rebuilt. they told me there were a lot of metal shavings in the transmission which clogged up the works. this cost me almost $3,000.00 plus the cost of being stranded out of town for 5 days. i now have 92,000 miles on the truck and have to have the transmission rebuilt again. i do not know the cost to do this yet. plus i have the cost of obtaining alternate transportation to get to work for about 14 days until i get the work completed. the first repair work was done by aamco and the warranty on their work was for 12 months or 12,000 miles, whichever came first. i had aamco do a diagnostic on the vehicle and they told me the transmission was "toast". *jb