Tom Slick
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- Joined
- Feb 7, 2014
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- Ram Year
- 1985 Ramcharger Royal SE
- Engine
- small block wedge 360-4bbl
Anyone else out there have a '14 1500 Big Horn crew cab loaded-up with options 4x4 with a water leak issue ? Just returned from a trip down south, where my truck was parked outside overnite in some fairly heavy rain. Got in the next day & the rear passenger seat bun was WET, as was the headliner in the passenger rear corner. This was a factory official, lease turn-in, certified truck that I bought a year ago with 26,000+ miles. It now has 36,000 miles. I was NONE TOO HAPPY, since it had NEVER leaked before & called the selling dealer service manager from down south, to see: a) what caused the water infiltration ?, b) what should I do about it ?, and c) was the repair needed covered under the extended warranty that I purchased when I bought the truck ?? His answers were: a) probably was the 3rd brake light, water has been known to get in around there in a rain. I asked if it could be coming in around the seam where the roof & sides of the truck joined together ? He told me that he'd only seen ONE truck of this gen that had leaked there, all the rest were around the roof-mount brake light. I thought it sounded like a design flaw to me, letting water leak into the cab in a rain storm. b) He suggested putting duck tape around the 3rd brake light until I got back to Mich. & could have the problem addressed. I told him I'd ALREADY done that ( after I dried the interior out with fans & hairdryer !! ) & I also taped the entire roof seam on BOTH sides, just to make sure that sucker DIDN'T leak ! c) turns out that this issue WASN'T covered under my extended warranty ( supposedly ). And even if it was, I have a $ 100.00 deductible on any repairs. So, after replacing the entire brake light housing for under $ 70.00, I'm back at it. I think this is a design flaw that FCA ought to re-engineer & cover the repair costs of the trucks out there that have this issue.