Ya know,
Here's my take on this even though we're new to the Ram scenario and especially to the Ecodiesel. We recently purchased, 3/17/25, a '21 Ram 1500 Laramie Crew Cab 4x4 Ecodiesel. It had a whopping 34,500 miles on it. It's damn near a flawless truck. It's Delmonico Red with the two-tone silver fender flare type things. The interior is absolutely gorgeous! They call it Mountain Brown with light frost beige suede and leather. The CEO and I are totally astounded at it's appearance, it's over all presentation without a doubt, the performance AND MPG are PHENOMENAL!!!!!!!
Now, since we purchased this truck a couple of months ago, yeah, I've heard of or red on here, some typical paranoia about the Ecodiesel and how it can grenade at the most inopportune time. Bad this or bad that, prematurely worn this or that and all of a sudden, you're stuck with a blown or defective engine. Wellllll, can this happen, sure it can. But, what you HAVE to take into account is, how many of these ITALIAN VM MOTORI 3.0L V-6 Ecodiesels have been made????? Of those, IN ALL THE WORLD, not just here in the USA, how many have had any form of an issue, either minor or complete obliteration?????
On ALL FORUMS, one reads of a certain amount of disasters with whatever components or parts or complete engines or transmissions etc. that are part of the forums contents. Does that mean ALL of the components/engines/transmissions/electrical systems etc. are bad, OF COURSE NOT!!!!!!!!!
Every manufacturer on the planet has or has had, teething problems or even some on-going issues with at least SOME of their products or a series of products. It's a given. Ford's had that ***** turbo V-6 dang near come through the hood on quite a few of their 1/2 ton trucks. I know a buddy who's had THREE of those V-6's in his '13 F-150. Fortunately, he's had warranty all three times. GM's had some issues with various versions of its Duramax. Ford's had Power Stroke issues too. If I had to guess, even though I'm not that up on them, I'd say Ram's had some issues with the Cummins too at one time or another.
I'm pretty sure NO ONE likes an engine to go south in any vehicle they either have now or one in the past. But it happens from time to time. I have an '18 Honda Goldwing Tour DCT Airbag GL1800 motorcycle. It's without the top touring machine on the planet. Not that long ago, about 6 months to a year or so ago, Honda and NHTSA decided that there is a SINGLE BOLT inside the engine, that may, or may not have had improper heat treatment when the bolt was manufactured and it could, I SAY IT COULD, simply self break at any given time, low speed or zooming down the road at your basic 65, 75,85 or a 100 mph and when that happens, that bolt head starts flopping around in an area it's not supposed to play in and it, and along with some components that were being held in place, can also enter a playground where they're not wanted and you can have your basic motorcycle grenade right between your legs.
Well, to date, in the bazillion of those model Goldwings that have been made, with that particular engine, only ONE OR TWO have had this catastrophic issue. So Honda has decided to do a RECALL on all those with that same bolt. Bring it in to your local Honda motorcycle dealer, and they're take about 8 hours or so to replace it, on their dime.
I feel for the OP, I really do. I'd hate for that same thing to happen to us with our new-to-us '21 Ram 1500 Ecodiesel. Although we could afford monitarily an instance like the OP has had, we did manage to procure an aftermarket warranty that does spell out in the "fine details" it will cover pretty much every single engine component should there be some world shaking event. God forbid, that should ever happen to TEST that warranty.
But again, one has to take into account, the total amount of Ecodiesels that have been made and put that figure against just how many, documented and/or undocumented (those that have not reported a catastrophe on here or any other "forum") have had either a small issue or total failure. Then take that figure, and compare it to Fords twin turbo V-6 or any other potentially repetitious engine issue of any manufacturer. If our Ecodiesel grenades in the not too distant future or, after a 100,000 miles of ownership, or it NEVER does, we'll just continue to really appreciate a phenomenally nice truck. I applaud Ram, Stellantis, VM Motori etc. for some outstanding work and an outwardly GREAT machine.
Scott
