mtofell
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2014 4X4 6.4 Hemi with 93K.
This is potentially tranny problem 2.0 as it originally blew up at 38K under pretty much zero load (stop/go freeway traffic) and was rebuilt under warranty. Post-rebuild it is/was okay but does have some scary clunky shifts at times and just generally feels like a POS. From reading of other experiences this just seems normal so it's hard to say if mine is out of the ordinary or not. If not for a Lifetime Maxcare warranty there is no way I'd own this truck past the 100K power train warranty. Anyhow, since the failure at 38K things have generally been consistent with no major problem... until yesterday.
Leaving town with family loaded into the truck on a **** poor rainy afternoon. As I was heading out of town, 2 lanes go to one, I get on it a bit to merge in front of slow car and I get a pretty hard/clunky shift. Honestly, nothing too out of the ordinary from the crappy shifts it does everyday but I do remember it. FF a few miles and I notice the truck is stuck in 4th gear. Can't shift manually, won't downshift when I hammer it, tow/haul mode doesn't change anything, tranny temp is consistent/low. Just moving along in 4th gear. By this time I'm 10 miles out of town on a state highway with pouring rain, my family in the truck and the bed full of luggage and crap for a weekend trip. I make the decision to just keep going (in 4th gear). We are about 50 miles from our destination with no stoplights and thankfully traffic is light. We make it all the way to our destination town and have to come to a stop (by this time at least I'm in a town so my thought process was a tow would be much easier and getting family and junk to hotel is only 2 miles instead of 50).
So, when coming to a stop (first time the truck had been below 25 MPH) it shifts down to 1st without incident. Then starts moving and shifting normally. I pull over, turn it off/on and everything is fine. Driven it all day today 3-4X and everything seems fine. From researching online it seems I went in "limp mode".
After all this rambling (sorry) I guess my question is, does going into limp mode once indicate a problem? Have any of you had this happen once or twice and it was just a fluke? This just sucks because I was already leery of getting stuck due to the original failure and crappy operation. Now with this I'm really going to be worried. I have my code reader and there is nothing. I know if I take it to the dealer they will just scratch their head and wonder why I have a question since the truck still rolls. From reading online, going into limp mode seems pretty common and many people say there is a solenoid that fails. Again, I'm just wondering if anyone else had just had a "fluke" limp mode episode or if it always turns into something. I really don't care what it turns into. I just need to get it to act up AND be able to show the almighty king of denial Ram dealer so it can be fixed.
This is potentially tranny problem 2.0 as it originally blew up at 38K under pretty much zero load (stop/go freeway traffic) and was rebuilt under warranty. Post-rebuild it is/was okay but does have some scary clunky shifts at times and just generally feels like a POS. From reading of other experiences this just seems normal so it's hard to say if mine is out of the ordinary or not. If not for a Lifetime Maxcare warranty there is no way I'd own this truck past the 100K power train warranty. Anyhow, since the failure at 38K things have generally been consistent with no major problem... until yesterday.
Leaving town with family loaded into the truck on a **** poor rainy afternoon. As I was heading out of town, 2 lanes go to one, I get on it a bit to merge in front of slow car and I get a pretty hard/clunky shift. Honestly, nothing too out of the ordinary from the crappy shifts it does everyday but I do remember it. FF a few miles and I notice the truck is stuck in 4th gear. Can't shift manually, won't downshift when I hammer it, tow/haul mode doesn't change anything, tranny temp is consistent/low. Just moving along in 4th gear. By this time I'm 10 miles out of town on a state highway with pouring rain, my family in the truck and the bed full of luggage and crap for a weekend trip. I make the decision to just keep going (in 4th gear). We are about 50 miles from our destination with no stoplights and thankfully traffic is light. We make it all the way to our destination town and have to come to a stop (by this time at least I'm in a town so my thought process was a tow would be much easier and getting family and junk to hotel is only 2 miles instead of 50).
So, when coming to a stop (first time the truck had been below 25 MPH) it shifts down to 1st without incident. Then starts moving and shifting normally. I pull over, turn it off/on and everything is fine. Driven it all day today 3-4X and everything seems fine. From researching online it seems I went in "limp mode".
After all this rambling (sorry) I guess my question is, does going into limp mode once indicate a problem? Have any of you had this happen once or twice and it was just a fluke? This just sucks because I was already leery of getting stuck due to the original failure and crappy operation. Now with this I'm really going to be worried. I have my code reader and there is nothing. I know if I take it to the dealer they will just scratch their head and wonder why I have a question since the truck still rolls. From reading online, going into limp mode seems pretty common and many people say there is a solenoid that fails. Again, I'm just wondering if anyone else had just had a "fluke" limp mode episode or if it always turns into something. I really don't care what it turns into. I just need to get it to act up AND be able to show the almighty king of denial Ram dealer so it can be fixed.