ARE YOU SERIOUS RAM? Failed Factory Powersteps Running Boards

Disclaimer: Links on this page pointing to Amazon, eBay and other sites may include affiliate code. If you click them and make a purchase, we may earn a small commission.

DA Smith

Senior Member
Joined
Dec 25, 2018
Posts
220
Reaction score
273
Location
Marshall Texas
Ram Year
2019
Engine
5.7 Hemi
Amp does not make the factory boards. They are actually very different. The motors have different connectors and wiring circuits, different control modules, the factory boards have a rod that connects to the idler end, etc.
Sorry dude but AMP does manufacture the power running boards for MOPAR . They are built to MOPAR specs for the Ram Trucks, FCA contracts with AMP to build and furnish the running board that they sell under the Mopar name!
 

DA Smith

Senior Member
Joined
Dec 25, 2018
Posts
220
Reaction score
273
Location
Marshall Texas
Ram Year
2019
Engine
5.7 Hemi
My mistake on AMP making the boards. That is what dealer told me when I got the truck. I think locally AMP boards are $1200 to $1500 installed from after market shops. As for me the factory steps have worked flawlessly for 2 years. I use my truck for work and would guess that They have to deploy at least 30 times per day.
No mistake AMP does make the power steps for MOPA to the Specs they provide.
 

DodgeDude99

Senior Member
Joined
Aug 16, 2016
Posts
590
Reaction score
276
Location
Oak Lawn, Illinois
Ram Year
2014
Engine
6.7 Cummins
2019 Ram 1500 Limited: My factory installed powerstep/running boards started making a loud noise when going down and up... and after down and up. Took it in to the dealer: it's covered under 3 yr 36,000 miles or for me, $1,200 because I have 39,000 miles. Are you SERIOUS?? 2 years old and the motor fails for factory-installed powerstep/running boards and I have to pay $1,200?? Is it just me... or wouldn't you expect a motor to last the 'lifetime' of the vehicle? NOT 2 YEARS??? C'mon Ram!! This is the **** that makes American Car manufacturers look bad. The motor for a powerstep/running board should not fail within the 1st 5 yesrs... MINIMUM. If it does, it is YOUR FAULT not the consumer. Step up and cover a failure in quality control. Don't shift it to the consumer. This is the 70's.


I had bought Bestop power boards for my 2014 in 2015. I took them off last spring. 2 motors & 3 sets of linkages.
So if you want to count, that’s a set of linkages every year that was replaced when I had them on.

The winters killed them every time.
 

Jimmy07

Senior Member
Joined
Feb 23, 2017
Posts
3,250
Reaction score
2,910
Ram Year
2017
Engine
6.4 Hemi
Sorry dude but AMP does manufacture the power running boards for MOPAR . They are built to MOPAR specs for the Ram Trucks, FCA contracts with AMP to build and furnish the running board that they sell under the Mopar name!
You’ll have to show some documentation on this. Why do you suppose it took them 6 months after the 5th gens were released to release their own version for the DT body. They had to readjust for the vapor canister location. Why would they have to do this if they already designed a set for mopar that would clear it. Their version and the mopar version are a completely different design.
 

corneileous

Senior Member
Joined
Sep 6, 2016
Posts
6,851
Reaction score
3,915
Location
Podunkyville, OK
Ram Year
2018 Ram 1500 Limited 4X4
Engine
Hemi 5.7
Fun fact: vehicle ownership is a risk. The warranty is 3 years/36k miles. Like someone else said, you were presented the option to extend that coverage, you declined, now you’re ******** that you can’t take advantage of coverage you declined. Tough nuts dude. Things break. It sucks. But no one has any obligation to stand behind that product as it’s not under warranty anymore. Stop pointing fingers, put your entitlement away, realize that vehicle ownership is a responsibility and fix your truck.

This..... this right here. I feel for ya OP, it sucks but it is what it is.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 

corneileous

Senior Member
Joined
Sep 6, 2016
Posts
6,851
Reaction score
3,915
Location
Podunkyville, OK
Ram Year
2018 Ram 1500 Limited 4X4
Engine
Hemi 5.7
Replace the boards with a fixed style. No more motor problems and much cheaper than the 1200 for the motor that may fail again.
The motorized boards and the air suspension are 2 things I would never want.

I’ve got air suspension, I love the **** out of it but since I did my research before I bought my truck, that air ride is pretty much the sole purpose of the lifetime warranty I bought when I
signed the papers on the new truck.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 

corneileous

Senior Member
Joined
Sep 6, 2016
Posts
6,851
Reaction score
3,915
Location
Podunkyville, OK
Ram Year
2018 Ram 1500 Limited 4X4
Engine
Hemi 5.7
The power running boards are a $995 option for a pair on a new truck from the factory so the dealer is gouging, which is hardly surprising. Most of the income for dealers is from the sale of parts and from repairs and service work.

To me have retracting running boards on a truck or SUV seems dumb anyway. The running boards protect the sides of my trucks from dirt and gravels and such being tossed up by the tires. Having the running boards no longer in a position to protect the truck when driving does not make any sense.

Same here. When I had to replace my factory running boards due to damage from an old phone box pedestal in the front yard, I considered an aftermarket brand of power steps because they looked cool but once I saw all the rock dings on the bottom of my factory boards from even the slightest amount of gravel road driving, I’m glad I went with another fixed set.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 

corneileous

Senior Member
Joined
Sep 6, 2016
Posts
6,851
Reaction score
3,915
Location
Podunkyville, OK
Ram Year
2018 Ram 1500 Limited 4X4
Engine
Hemi 5.7
Gaining some limited protection from steps is a side benefit of having them. It's not most people's primary reason for having steps. The retractable steps are very nice to have, and make getting in and out of the truck easy for anyone. They are wide and sit lower when deployed. And when they are retracted they allow for more clearance if you go off road.
That really only applies to people who go off-road but in my experience, who’s going to be taking a $55,000+ Limited or even a Laramie on that kind of terrain where a fixed set of boards is gonna get in the way?..lol. You’ll probably be tearing up other **** before you start ripping running boards off.

We have fixed steps on the Laramie, and power steps on the Limited. Both trucks still get rock chips on the rocker panels. The fixed steps probably do protect from some of these, but, unless you get full coverage wheel to wheel steps, they are not nearly as effective as you are making them out to be.

I’ll admit, I do have a few rock dings on the underneath of my cab that who knows, probably could’ve accumulated while my factory boards were off the truck for a short while before my new ones came in but they are pretty effective, at least on my truck.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 

corneileous

Senior Member
Joined
Sep 6, 2016
Posts
6,851
Reaction score
3,915
Location
Podunkyville, OK
Ram Year
2018 Ram 1500 Limited 4X4
Engine
Hemi 5.7
Well, dang! I feel really dumb now. Here this entire time I’ve had side steps on my vehicles, and I’ve always thought they were so I can step on to get into the vehicle. I never knew they were intended to protect the sides of the vehicle...

I guess it depends on the boards but some people say they even protect the sides of your truck from door dings on parking lots. Mine actually stick out further than stock boards but because my truck is standard height, I don’t know if mine would get struck from a careless door from a car next to mine or not.

But I will say, that day that I let my mom move my truck out of the way for me to mow under when she drove over the phone box, the side rail DID take the hit instead of the cab. Saved me an insurance claim. I didn’t care for the painted steps that came on my truck so I just used it as an excuse to get the stainless aftermarket boards that I originally wanted.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 

corneileous

Senior Member
Joined
Sep 6, 2016
Posts
6,851
Reaction score
3,915
Location
Podunkyville, OK
Ram Year
2018 Ram 1500 Limited 4X4
Engine
Hemi 5.7
Details on this lifetime warranty?

Well for starters, I don’t think they offer it anymore but for as long as I have my truck, it’s a hundred dollar deductible that kicks in after the factory warranties expire.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 

mikeru

Super Moderator
Staff member
Super Moderator
Joined
Nov 3, 2016
Posts
2,813
Reaction score
3,627
Location
Eastern WA
Ram Year
2020 Limited
Engine
Hemi 5.7L
That really only applies to people who go off-road but in my experience, who’s going to be taking a $55,000+ Limited or even a Laramie on that kind of terrain where a fixed set of boards is gonna get in the way?..lol. You’ll probably be tearing up other **** before you start ripping running boards off.
Lots of people take their Laramies off road. Not as sure about the Limiteds. I know someone who bought a brand new Longhorn to use as a farm truck. People do abuse $55k trucks.

I’ll admit, I do have a few rock dings on the underneath of my cab that who knows, probably could’ve accumulated while my factory boards were off the truck for a short while before my new ones came in but they are pretty effective, at least on my truck.
Obviously they will provide some protection. How well they protect is dependent on the design. It's more of a secondary benefit. The fixed steps on our Laramie don't provide much protection. The powered steps are the best I've ever used for their intended purpose as actual steps. My older relatives can actually get into the truck without assistance. That's never been the case with any fixed steps I've had.

I'm a little concerned to hear about people having problems with them. But if ours ever fail we'll be replacing them with AMP power steps if it happens after the warranty expires.
 

corneileous

Senior Member
Joined
Sep 6, 2016
Posts
6,851
Reaction score
3,915
Location
Podunkyville, OK
Ram Year
2018 Ram 1500 Limited 4X4
Engine
Hemi 5.7
Lots of people take their Laramies off road. Not as sure about the Limiteds. I know someone who bought a brand new Longhorn to use as a farm truck. People do abuse $55k trucks.

I guess I can’t say that I’m surprised to hear this, I just don’t know of anybody who’s bought that expensive of a trim just to take it out and bash it unless they just got more money than they know what to do with.

But hey, thank you for taking the time to prove me wrong and show me that there are people out there who in my opinion are dumb enough to buy expensive trucks like these and treat them that way. I figured that’s why they made the tradesmen’s and the big horns was for the people who were going to actually go work them or take them off road and that? maybe not so much the Laramie‘s but the Laramie Longhorns and the limited‘s were the ones that only people who like myself would buy but again I guess I’m wrong but you know what, it don’t matter, it’s their money, they can waste it however they wish.

I just think it’s awful entertaining when I hear from people on Facebook primarily that do that and then they wonder why they get stuck all the time because they have that automatic transfer case and then it’s like they don’t have enough sense to not turn around and not bash Ram because of how their auto-transfer cases are and it’s like, well, if you knew you were taking this truck off road or were going to use it on a farm, maybe you should’ve got something that didn’t have all that fancy **** and got one that was more of a plain, standardized truck.

Or the guy that was ******** about his brand new ram with the hemi in it that had an a lot more power than his older 2007 ram hemi but when he put 35s on it, he couldn’t understand why he couldn’t sling mud in his new truck like he could in his old truck and it was discovered that the guy had bought a truck with those higher gears in it and I told him that because of them 3:21’s was why. I said his new truck may have about 50 more horsepower than the old one but I said that if you put 35s on a truck that had already ultra high gears in it, that were gonna feel it. Lol.


Obviously they will provide some protection. How well they protect is dependent on the design. It’s more of a secondary benefit. The fixed steps on our Laramie don’t provide much protection. The powered steps are the best I’ve ever used for their intended purpose as actual steps. My older relatives can actually get into the truck without assistance. That’s never been the case with any fixed steps I’ve had.
That’s good I guess. I’ve never had powered steps like that and I don’t ever plan to but nobody’s ever said to me that my truck was hard to climb in and out of with the fixed steps I’ve always had. But you’re right, it’s depending on the design on how much protection they actually offer.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 

Sully1960

Junior Member
Joined
Dec 23, 2020
Posts
20
Reaction score
8
Location
Massachusetts
Ram Year
2021
Engine
Hemi 5.7 e Tourque
Picked up a new 2021 Ram 1500 Longhorn Limited Edition 0n 12/16/20. Beautiful truck... and expensive. On 12/24/20, eight days and 120 mi. after taking delivery on the truck, a message flashed on the instrument panel that said "power assist steps unavailable, schedule service." I called the dealer and scheduled an appointment for 12/31/20... first available appointment. The next day, the steps were working. On 12/27/20, same message and steps not working. Next day steps working again. On 12/31/20, dealer took in to check problem. At this time, steps were working. I was told they found a code that showed steps lost communication. But no other problem was found. Reset and sent me along my way. I got home 25 minutes later and... steps would not deploy when I was exiting my truck. Immediately called dealer and spoke w/ service mgr. He asked me to bring the truck in on 1/5/21 and leave it for a couple days so they "could play around with it." Today, 1/1/21, I got in my truck and steps not working. Left with my wife to run errands. While out, steps would deploy... then not deploy. This happened twice in about 90 minutes. Additionally, during that 90 min period, the "steps unavailable" message flashed no less than 4 times. I hope the dealership is prepared to go through the entire "circuit" of the power assist steps, including all wiring, connections and elements (eg control modules) in the circuit. This problem needs to be fixed. The truck is two weeks old with approximately 300 min on it. To boot... it's a $66K truck!

Has anyone else had this issue?
 

corneileous

Senior Member
Joined
Sep 6, 2016
Posts
6,851
Reaction score
3,915
Location
Podunkyville, OK
Ram Year
2018 Ram 1500 Limited 4X4
Engine
Hemi 5.7
This attitude is exactly why I plan on selling it when it reaches three years.

You know, I’ve had my truck exactly 3 years to the day, pretty much. I couldn’t even dream of gettin’ rid of it and buying something else; even if those new 5th gens did look appealing at all.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 

BWL

Embrace the skeptisism
Joined
Oct 14, 2017
Posts
8,529
Reaction score
8,464
Location
BC Canada
Ram Year
2017
Engine
hemi 5.7
I want rid of mine, but with the high sales tax and depreciation it's more than I can afford right now even with the truck long paid off. Still has a couple years warranty left, but when that's over I think it'll be bon voyage. As much trouble as I've had already I don't want the repair bills and down time. I'll probably go more basic next time since I find the options to be good ideas poorly executed so essentially pointless since I end up disabling them.
 

corneileous

Senior Member
Joined
Sep 6, 2016
Posts
6,851
Reaction score
3,915
Location
Podunkyville, OK
Ram Year
2018 Ram 1500 Limited 4X4
Engine
Hemi 5.7
I want rid of mine, but with the high sales tax and depreciation it's more than I can afford right now even with the truck long paid off. Still has a couple years warranty left, but when that's over I think it'll be bon voyage. As much trouble as I've had already I don't want the repair bills and down time. I'll probably go more basic next time since I find the options to be good ideas poorly executed so essentially pointless since I end up disabling them.

You’re talking about your white limited, right? What all of the options have you disabled?

The only options on my limited that I’ve disabled/pretty much quit using is just the auto wipers, the auto highbeams and the auto aero-mode on my air ride suspension because to me, I think it does nothing useful as far as fuel mileage and it seems like when it goes into aero mode, the truck feels like it bottoms out too much or is too bouncy because of the less amount of air in the bags, and since it feels like it actually rides better with that part off, maybe I’m cutting down on wear and tear on my compressor so who knows.

As far as the auto highbeams and auto wipers, the auto highbeams don’t work right anymore with my much brighter LED highbeams now because let’s face it, the system was probably programmed to the brightness of the stock regular bulbs so, it’s almost kinda given that the highbeams would be turning on and off all the time because of the brighter reflection off road signs making the system think it needs too. The auto wipers; well, they work too much as it is and because I guess since I keep enough wax on my truck, the wipers don’t need to be in near as long or as soon as the sensor thinks they need to be.

Would I buy another fully-loaded truck? Hell yes I would. Just because there’s a few things I don’t use, isn’t reason to downgrade to a lesser-optioned truck in my opinion.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
Last edited:

BWL

Embrace the skeptisism
Joined
Oct 14, 2017
Posts
8,529
Reaction score
8,464
Location
BC Canada
Ram Year
2017
Engine
hemi 5.7
You’re talking about your white limited, right? What all of the options have you disabled?

The only options on my limited that I’ve disabled/pretty much quit using is just the auto wipers, the auto highbeams and the auto aero-mode on my air ride suspension because to me, I think it does nothing useful as far as fuel mileage and it seems like when it goes into aero mode, the truck feels like it bottoms out too much or is too bouncy because of the less amount of air in the bags, and since it feels like it actually rides better with that part off, maybe I’m cutting down on wear and tear on my compressor so who knows.

As far as the auto highbeams and auto wipers, the auto highbeams don’t work right anymore with my much brighter LED highbeams now because let’s face it, the system was probably programmed to the brightness of the stock regular bulbs so, it’s almost kinda given that the highbeams would be turning on and off all the time because of the brighter reflection off road signs making the system think it needs too. The auto wipers; well, they work too much as it is and because I guess since I keep enough wax on my truck, the wipers don’t need to be in near as long or as soon as the sensor thinks they need to be.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Auto high beams because they only work when they feel like it and I have stock headlights, auto wipers because they like to go into hyperdrive when the rain starts and it's 3 menus deep to go into manual mode, park sensors because they don't work in the winter and it drives me bananas when they go off while in reverse to warn of an obstacle in front of me, got rid of the sat radio subscription because they took out options I really liked vs the older alpine head unit making me use the touch screen more, which I'll never like the idea of on a vehicle because you have to take your eyes off the road to do anything on it vs getting to know where the buttons and switches are and doing things by feel. I've given up on warm feet in the winter because I hate having to go through the touch screen to change airflow settings, but have to start in defrost to thaw the windows initially. I still plan to disable the power tailgate because I like it unlocked with the cab locked for jobsite access without carrying my keys since I frequently remote start and/or set off the panic alarm when I keep them in my pocket so I leave them in the trailer. Why the f that can't be disabled via the head unit is beyond me. The trucks come with open backs so apart from not having your tailgate stolen it's useless for most people. I never use the box lighting because I have to switch it on and off in the cab. I know the newer ones have a switch in the box, but mine does not so I keep a flashlight back there as it's just easier. I never use voice controls because you can't interrupt it to do what you want and rarely does it in the end anyways. Why is the only cig lighter outlet under the phone holder where a USB would be best. I stopped using my ipod because when I plug it into the USB that links to uconnect it doesn't charge so I have to plug it into the one beside it to charge and then use it once charged. Also, as far as using a "luxury truck for work" underneath it's still a pickup and it's cheaper to make your work truck and comfortable daily driver the same vehicle than to have 2 separate vehicles. Shouldn't get a less capable truck because you spend more money on it. I knew going in that the only time 4wd would only work is when I didn't need it so I insisted on limited slip and I carry chains. Now the or2 air ride is a joke because once you're over 15mph it lowers. If I need the extra height because the road is rutted I need a little extra speed usually as well because it's slick. What happens is all is fine and then it auto lowers and I scrape. Then I stop, raise it again and try to get up the hill again mid way from a stop. Then the transfer case cuts out and I give up, chain up and crawl up slow, when all I needed was the suspension to just stay raised till 30mph instead of 15.
 
Last edited:

corneileous

Senior Member
Joined
Sep 6, 2016
Posts
6,851
Reaction score
3,915
Location
Podunkyville, OK
Ram Year
2018 Ram 1500 Limited 4X4
Engine
Hemi 5.7
Auto high beams because they only work when they feel like it and I have stock headlights...

That’s not really that “options” fault, tho. If you’re still running stock-brightness bulbs and having that problem then something is wrong with your system or your sensor.

At least with mine, it’s operation didn’t get really bad until I upgraded to my LED highbeams. Back when I was still running those Sylvania ZxE’s- their brightness is like, between the regular Sylvainia Silverstars and the Silverstar Ultras, shortly after buying my truck brand new, the auto operation of the highbeams was still normal.

...auto wipers because they like to go into hyperdrive when the rain starts and it's 3 menus deep to go into manual mode...
As I said- this, I can get behind because yes, I think they went a little crazy designing the function of these damn things. Maybe they started designing them better in the new fifth-gens.

But I’m curious- if you only need to go into the menu system ONE TIME to fully disable it then why is having to go that deep in the menu system a problem enough to complain about? I’m just curious. But then again, for the other people reading who may not know- you really don’t even need to go all the way that deep in the Uconnect settings to fully disable it if you don’t want the auto-wipers to work because when that setting is enabled, the wipers are only in auto mode when the wiper switch is turned towards the front of the truck, one click from OFF.

We get a lot of mist here in Oklahoma, winter or summer so that right there alone, is why I don’t really care for my auto wipers but even if I didn’t have that function fully disabled, and if there might be times I’d still use it, I can still only work my wipers when I want to, rather than only being limited to when the truck thinks it needs to by leaving the switch fully off and turning the switch on to the first click and then back off when all I need is a single quick wipe.

...park sensors because they don't work in the winter and it drives me bananas when they go off while in reverse to warn of an obstacle in front of me...
This one here, I really have nothing to say against them because yes, when these things get ice on them, they don’t work. But you know, maybe that’s why they ever so conveniently used up the right-two spots on that bottom switch panel so that you can turn the front, rear or both systems off so that they for one, don’t bug the **** out of you if they have ice accumulation on them or if you have a trailer hooked up, you can turn the back ones off.

...got rid of the sat radio subscription because they took out options I really liked...
What options?

...vs the older alpine head unit making me use the touch screen more, which I'll never like the idea of on a vehicle because you have to take your eyes off the road to do anything on it vs getting to know where the buttons and switches are and doing things by feel. I've given up on warm feet in the winter because I hate having to go through the touch screen to change airflow settings, but have to start in defrost to thaw the windows initially.

You say vs the the old Alpine so, how is a satellite radio subscription involved or associated with how the 8.4 Uconnect works, to it’s predecessor?

But on to the heater; if your Auto function doesn’t seem to be doing it’s job, there’s a defrost button right there to the right of the main dial.

As far as accessing the screen that controls your HVAC, it’s one button to get to. Lol.

I still plan to disable the power tailgate because I like it unlocked with the cab locked for jobsite access without carrying my keys since I frequently remote start and/or set off the panic alarm when I keep them in my pocket so I leave them in the trailer. Why the f that can't be disabled via the head unit is beyond me. The trucks come with open backs so apart from not having your tailgate stolen it's useless for most people.

Bein’ that since almost all models from the most expensive end of the lineup to the cheaper end have electric door locks and a rear backup camera, you would think that they would’ve accounted for people who use their truck for work and put in an option to keep the tailgate lock separate from the cab. I hear ya, on this one.

But hey, as long as you don’t mind using your emergency key to lock and unlock your tailgate, getting rid of that headache is only a matter of like 8 bolts or so away to remove the access panel and then unplugging the harness to your electric actuator. Problem solved.

I never use the box lighting because I have to switch it on and off in the cab. I know the newer ones have a switch in the box, but mine does not so I keep a flashlight back there as it's just easier.
Reasonable. Maybe that’s why they finally got smart the very next year and put that neat little weatherized switch in right below one of the lights so you don’t have to go to the cab to take advantage of those lights. But hey, if you’re pretty knowledgeable at least to be able to still use your fold-out floor with your under-seat sub box you put in, I wouldn’t think adding your own switch to that light to make it like the 18’s, would be all that difficult...[emoji41]

I never use voice controls because you can't interrupt it to do what you want and rarely does it in the end anyways.

I don’t use mine either...lol. But still no reason to opt against the finer other options of a Limited just for that.

Why is the only cig lighter outlet under the phone holder where a USB would be best. I stopped using my ipod because when I plug it into the USB that links to uconnect it doesn't charge so I have to plug it into the one beside it to charge and then use it once charged.
Since I can get a much better music-listening experience by using my phone as my iPod, I quit using my old
iPod years ago but, I’m curious as to why your USB ports under your console lid aren’t charging your iPod.... do they charge your phone? And also, which iPod are you using? I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume it’s an older one that doesn’t have Bluetooth? But still, older iPod or not, even if it was the older iPod Classic like mine, it still should charge when plugged into the USB port.

Also, as far as using a "luxury truck for work" underneath it's still a pickup and it's cheaper to make your work truck and comfortable daily driver the same vehicle than to have 2 separate vehicles. Shouldn't get a less capable truck because you spend more money on it.
Completely understandable but what gets me is when people complain when all that **** quits working from the harder use and abuse from using that kind of truck as a work truck. But yeah, I get ya... no sense in not having a work truck and a luxury truck not in the same vehicle.

I knew going in that the only time 4wd would only work is when I didn't need it so I insisted on limited slip and I carry chains. Now the or2 air ride is a joke because once you're over 15mph it lowers. If I need the extra height because the road is rutted I need a little extra speed usually as well because it's slick. What happens is all is fine and then it auto lowers and I scrape. Then I stop, raise it again and try to get up the hill again mid way from a stop. Then the transfer case cuts out and I give up, chain up and crawl up slow, when all I needed was the suspension to just stay raised till 30mph instead of 15.
Yeah, they could’ve let that threshold be a little higher than 15 miles an hour. I get it.

But all in all, sounds like you need a specific truck that’s outside what most people would need. Maybe ordering one specifically is probably your best option. Or, look into that kit that that guy on here sells that basically takes the “auto” out of your other two modes of 4WD. Then at least that way maybe you won’t have to run chains, just some decent tires and probably won’t even have to hit certain roads so hard and fast because your system will be “tricked” into thinking your back end is slipping nonstop thus resulting in your transfer case clutch being always locked in.

But I’m curious; if you’re talking this thing up places where you need that OR2 mode, why not lift the one you got through it’s suspension?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
Last edited:
Top