Consumer Complaint Detail

DODGE / RAM 2500 / 2000

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NHTSA Complaint Number: 999034636 Incident Date: Oct, 31 1999
Consumer's City: POTTSVILLE Consumer's State: TX
Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO Manufacturers Name: Chrysler (FCA US, LLC)
Model Name: RAM 2500 Model Year: 2000
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#: 1B7KF23WXYJ Date added to File: May, 25 2021
Date Complaint Received: Mar, 25 2000 Complaint Type: IVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: No Purchase Date: Sep, 30 1999
Was Original Owner: Yes Anti-lock Brakes: Yes
Number of Cylinders: 0 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: Transmission down shifts out of sequence without warning, down shifts to lower gear and then shifts into next lower gear. this causes motor to tack out to 5500+rpm and shuts down, when rpm drops down motor fires up transmission down shifts again motor shuts down again. this will happen again and again until i back off gas petal. transmission shifts through upper gears without stopping example ; shifts from 2nd to 3rd 4th od without stopping.these problems happen when pulling loads, has happened without load caused truck to spinout of control. last week while pulling a trailer on rain slick road down shifting nearly caused truck to jacknife. dealers know there is a problem but cannot find any codes. shifting problems and engine operating at wrong rpm causing extremly bad fuel millage. *ak