Can Anyone Explain What is Wrong With This Trim Piece?

Robert Mc · Apr 18, 2022

I'm looking at a new to me truck online with at CarMAx. For now the car is a three hour drive from me but i have a question regarding odd markings on a trim piece It appears the trim piece that surrounds the radio/climate controls has some lines running through it and they don't appear to be straight or evenly spaced. Has anyone seen this before? Is it a manufacturing defect like when the clear coat on some trim pieces on my Porsche developed micro-cracking? (BTW Porsche replaced those for free even though the car was two years old) Or did a prior owner try to "customize" it like a three year old would customize something? It looks terrible and the piece will certainly have to be replaced. This is on a 2018 Ram Laramie Limited. Other than this piece of trim the truck looks pretty good.

OC455 · Apr 18, 2022

If it's a Laramie Limited, then it is a wood grain trim piece.

OC455 · Apr 18, 2022

It's just a dark wood trim piece. It is not anything anyone tried to do themselves.

Robert Mc · Apr 18, 2022

Hmm. I certainly hope it looks better in person because that photo does it ZERO justice.

OC455 · Apr 18, 2022

The Limited trims have dark wood trim pieces. If you have pictures of the interior available, look at the door trim panels and the steering wheel it will show the dark wood grain trim.

GTyankee · Apr 19, 2022

mikeru · Apr 20, 2022

After almost 4 years of owning 5th gens, it's strange how dated the 4th gen interiors look to me now. When 5th gens first came out I really didn't think the interiors looked that much different than the 4th gen I had at the time.

2020PW · Apr 20, 2022

If your use to Porsche you will hate these. Check out the Ridgeline.

JoeCo · Apr 20, 2022

mikeru said:
After almost 4 years of owning 5th gens, it's strange how dated the 4th gen interiors look to me now. When 5th gens first came out I really didn't think the interiors looked that much different than the 4th gen I had at the time.

To be fair, the picture posted above your post looks to have a cheesy aftermarket 90s style wood dash installed. My 2017 looked like this:

Although even with the less fake wood in my 2017, my 2021 absolutely does blow it away all around and in quality of materials. Less than a year in on my first 5th gen but enjoying it very much.

mikeru · Apr 20, 2022

JoeCo said:
To be fair, the picture posted above your post looks to have a cheesy aftermarket 90s style wood dash installed. My 2017 looked like this:

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Although even with the less fake wood in my 2017, my 2021 absolutely does blow it away all around and in quality of materials. Less than a year in on my first 5th gen but enjoying it very much.

Very nice. This is how my 2017 looked:

2020PW · Apr 20, 2022

mikeru said:
Very nice. This is how my 2017 looked:

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I could drive this. The black reminds me of the Lincoln Blackwood. The brown wood reminds me of the 80’s dodge diplomat with the wood paneling stickers on the side.

JoeCo · Apr 20, 2022

mikeru said:
Very nice. This is how my 2017 looked:

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Thanks Mike! I really like your 2017 interior as well, love the red to break up the black and add contrast. Nice look!

GTyankee · Apr 20, 2022

I looked at the picture in Post #1 the other day & i thought something was wrong in the picture.

Today i looked at it again, someone was using some kind of artificial light to get a good image & it distorted the image

Robert Mc · Apr 21, 2022

2020PW said:
If your use to Porsche you will hate these. Check out the Ridgeline.

I thought about getting a smaller truck but my wife really likes the room in the Crew Cab. I’ll look at a Ridgeline since I’ve never been in one.

Nedap · Apr 25, 2022

If you look closely in the top right hand side at the original picture 1st post, it looks to me to have the protective plastic film on it, that should just peel off to see how it really looks. It looks as thought it is slightly peeled off on the corner.

El Toro Blanco · Apr 25, 2022

You by chance are not referring to the reflection of the photographers fingers are you?

Noneck · Apr 25, 2022

Haha! Yeah the reflection of the person's hand holding the phone for the photo! I'm sure Ram will take car of that for you LOL?

Robert Mc · Apr 25, 2022

El Toro Blanco said:
You by chance are not referring to the reflection of the photographers fingers are you?

If you're asking me, no. If you look at the photo the plastic piece that surrounds the climate controls and the tow/haul buttons, and etc, has evenly spaced, rough looking horizontal lines that run left to right. It looks like cracking in the plastic piece. I was wondering if that is how the piece is supposed to look or if the PO did something to make it look like that. Because it looks terrible.

Tim7139 · Apr 25, 2022

Robert Mc said:
If you're asking me, no. If you look at the photo the plastic piece that surrounds the climate controls and the tow/haul buttons, and etc, has evenly spaced, rough looking horizontal lines that run left to right. It looks like cracking in the plastic piece. I was wondering if that is how the piece is supposed to look or if the PO did something to make it look like that. Because it looks terrible.

That was the desired effect. As others have mentioned, it may not look as bad from other angles. It's trivial to change if you don't like it.

Jimmy07 · Apr 25, 2022

Robert Mc said:
If you're asking me, no. If you look at the photo the plastic piece that surrounds the climate controls and the tow/haul buttons, and etc, has evenly spaced, rough looking horizontal lines that run left to right. It looks like cracking in the plastic piece. I was wondering if that is how the piece is supposed to look or if the PO did something to make it look like that. Because it looks terrible.

If you are referring to the highlighted area pictured below, then you probably don’t want to be looking at limiteds. Those lines represent the wood grain, and is exactly how it’s supposed to look. There are pieces like that on the door panels, and the top half of the steering wheel is like that

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