Laeskis
Junior Member
2013 Ram 1500 slt with 4 doors and 4.7 v8. 155k miles. I had the ac evap blow out. Everything was working fine except the ac. Member of the family says “I have a mechanic who can fix that” so I send it off with him.
I say “since it’s going to the shop, I’d like to go ahead and get the tires rotated and do a front end alignment”
When it went, again…everything but ac was working normally. Perfectly fine.
So…family member rotates the tires for me to save a little money, instead of paying mechanic for it.
Mechanic pulls the dash and replaces evap, and heater core for good measure. Does a front end alignment.
Family member gets it back from mechanic. Says brake light won’t go off. Takes it back to mechanic who says switch is now messed up. Replaces it with aftermarket part. But says abs module is bad now. So family member takes it to dealership. Dealership says abs module is bad. But they don’t have one in stock. Says it’s fine to drive. They do a couple of recalls on the truck. None related to abs, electric power steering, or tpms.
Family member brings the truck back. Tpms all showing “-“ with no pressures. Traction control light is on and won’t go off. One day later, there’s a clunk and electric power steering stops working. Odb scan also says abs module is bad.
Take it to a different dodge dealership locally. They say it needs $2000 electric power steering module.
Does this seem to be true, or is this lazy diagnostics? “Hard to figure it out so just replace the whole thing?”
Reason I’m wondering is it’s very suspicious that EVERYTHING was working fine, then right after said work was done…all of these components suddenly “go bad” abs module, tpms, eps, brake light switch…
That’s a lot of money to gamble. $2000 on a part that might not be the fix…that has to be bought aftermarket because dodge can’t put their hands on one so dealer won’t stand behind the “fix”…
Sorry to post a question here without having contributed. But I’m about 10 hours into searching, reading and even asking chatgpt with no clear solutions.
I say “since it’s going to the shop, I’d like to go ahead and get the tires rotated and do a front end alignment”
When it went, again…everything but ac was working normally. Perfectly fine.
So…family member rotates the tires for me to save a little money, instead of paying mechanic for it.
Mechanic pulls the dash and replaces evap, and heater core for good measure. Does a front end alignment.
Family member gets it back from mechanic. Says brake light won’t go off. Takes it back to mechanic who says switch is now messed up. Replaces it with aftermarket part. But says abs module is bad now. So family member takes it to dealership. Dealership says abs module is bad. But they don’t have one in stock. Says it’s fine to drive. They do a couple of recalls on the truck. None related to abs, electric power steering, or tpms.
Family member brings the truck back. Tpms all showing “-“ with no pressures. Traction control light is on and won’t go off. One day later, there’s a clunk and electric power steering stops working. Odb scan also says abs module is bad.
Take it to a different dodge dealership locally. They say it needs $2000 electric power steering module.
Does this seem to be true, or is this lazy diagnostics? “Hard to figure it out so just replace the whole thing?”
Reason I’m wondering is it’s very suspicious that EVERYTHING was working fine, then right after said work was done…all of these components suddenly “go bad” abs module, tpms, eps, brake light switch…
That’s a lot of money to gamble. $2000 on a part that might not be the fix…that has to be bought aftermarket because dodge can’t put their hands on one so dealer won’t stand behind the “fix”…
Sorry to post a question here without having contributed. But I’m about 10 hours into searching, reading and even asking chatgpt with no clear solutions.
