Did you guys read the pickup reliability rankings out? RAM came in last....

[Jeepwalker]

This was for 2026 pickups, not our 4th gen trucks. Pickup reliability tanking ..all mfgrs. Take it or leave it.. I'm not making any claims or statements other than it's a talking point in the news. I love my Ram ...2012 pre-big-tech. One overall point of the article is too much tech seems to be making the once super-reliable pickup platform a lot less reliable (across the industry).

A lot of the issues reported seem too-common to what a lot of 4th gen owners have been struggling with for years. Hopefully this black eye will prompt mfgrs to clean up their act, fix issues and improve reliability.

https://autos.yahoo.com/ownership/articles/ram-1500-tops-brutal-list-164500618.html

Here's the video.

These 2026 Pickup Trucks Have a Serious Problem — Consumer Reports Just Exposed Them

For years, pickup trucks earned a reputation for being the toughest vehicles on the road.But something has changed.Consumer Reports just released its latest ...

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Whaddya think?

 

[TradesmanGuy]

Says --> Ram 1500 - Reliability Score: 5/100

That bad, how does one get the new truck home? Seems that it should explode driving it off the dealer lot.

 

[oe542bob]

I just saw it’s from Consumer Reports. Don’t care what they say, never did, never will.

 

[04fxdwgi]

Probably some Prius driver wrote it.

All newer stuff is F.U.B.A.R. with engine / xmission "cost saving designs" (read cheaper), electronic gremlins / design flaws and spying software.

 

[RamDiver]

Just wait until they start measuring your state of awareness and shutting down the engine while alerting the authorities if the driving skills aren't up to par.

Add those features to the rats' nest of electronic irregularities, and you haven't seen anything yet.

Hopefully, they won't outlaw buying older vehicles, at least not in our lifetime.

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[tjfdesmo]

CR = BS

 

[DILLIGAF]

Rams are massives pieces of ****. Specially the new ones

 

[Mojo88]

I would loooovvvve to know how much eTorque contributed to the bad ratings..............

 

[Gemeni06]

This was for 2026 pickups, not our 4th gen trucks. Pickup reliability tanking ..all mfgrs. Take it or leave it.. I'm not making any claims or statements other than it's a talking point in the news. I love my Ram ...2012 pre-big-tech. One overall point of the article is too much tech seems to be making the once super-reliable pickup platform a lot less reliable (across the industry).

A lot of the issues reported seem too-common to what a lot of 4th gen owners have been struggling with for years. Hopefully this black eye will prompt mfgrs to clean up their act, fix issues and improve reliability.

https://autos.yahoo.com/ownership/articles/ram-1500-tops-brutal-list-164500618.html

Here's the video.

These 2026 Pickup Trucks Have a Serious Problem — Consumer Reports Just Exposed Them

For years, pickup trucks earned a reputation for being the toughest vehicles on the road.But something has changed.Consumer Reports just released its latest ...

www.youtube.com

Whaddya think?

No reason for manufactures to fix issues and improve reliability. People will keep buying trucks no matter what with many wanting to cram every bell and whistle into the truck as possible.

 

[msweets]

According to the article, you just shouldn't buy a truck. ALL the trucks in the article had horrible scores. It just so happens that Ram was ranked at the bottom... with little separation in scores from the top.

 

[Jeepwalker]

The disturbing part is it comes from owner surveys. Most of the hassles (posts) on this section for yrs have been the very things they're pointing out.

Like was pointed out though, people seem to want the high-tech features and mfgrs have to comply with the myriad of emission/safety laws... and try to get good power and fuel economy...

 

[Burla]

It isn't only trucks, it is every single vehicle made in 2026 and beyond. Of course they say Ford is running stuff. why? even on reliability? Listen close to what they say. It is all politics, chose brands based on their view of climate change. Why they want everyone in a Ford Maverick? Famously those fools put a diaper on the exhaust before any mandate, enough for the CR to wet their own diapers. And listen how they "guide" you into a Ford f150 hybrid or eco boost but casually mention oh yeah they still have a v8. It's just a bad joke, their language is the language of the damned, ever buy into their crap which is what cr should mean, you are the damned. Agree with them and you get all of the brownies, this I promise you. Diapers on exhaust is total CR so they try and tell you that is the "most reliable" was them paying Ford for placating to the language of the damned period stop.

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[Jeepwalker]

I get what you're saying, sure we all know about the regulations. What does that have to do with EPS or ABS modules? Taking personal politics of it, just on the face of things, you're saying there isn't a problem and trucks are at least as reliable as they used to be? I'm not trying to start a back n fourth but you've been around this forum quite a while.

The air-ride on the Rivian, I'll look past that for now b/c those are just whole problematic 'systems' in themselves and never really been reliable long-term going back to the 80's. Tricky and expensive to debug. I can't hardly believe those EV companies went with air ride. I've been through that on other cars even in the 90's. Great while it works..."while it works". Maybe air-assist with springs would have been a better choice, but that's more weight. You want to get under a customer's skin...just put an air-ride system in place which eventually fails in the worst way (pumped up, or pumped down) which most customers coming from spring-cars never had to deal with. I was pleasantly surprised, the last Genesis G80 (EV) I rented had the smarts to stick with coil springs all around. Anywhoo....

 

[Jeepwalker]

Of course the more 'stuff' you add to anything (vehicle or otherwise), the greater complexity, the more failure-points there are. Luxury cars have been headaches for decades. Vs a basic old-school plain-jane pickup with a key and HEI.

 

[Burla]

I was just saying possible motivations for why Ford made it to the top of CR reliability list. And how they are all up for raving about the Ford Maverick.. I believe reliability is negotiable to them, No back and forth, that was my point bro.


coincidence? the truck at the bottom just brought back hemi and tanked e toque and ended it's plans for an EV?

 

[SeventyGTX]

Says --> Ram 1500 - Reliability Score: 5/100

That bad, how does one get the new truck home? Seems that it should explode driving it off the dealer lot.

Too funny. I've had 4 of them a 2500 and 3 1500's and none of them gave me any serious trouble at all.

 

[Buddy]

Pick a product, not just vehicles. Everything is made to break nowadays. Vehicles and houses are just the most expensive thing you buy that will be breaking.

 

[Docwagon1776]

I was just saying possible motivations for why Ford made it to the top of CR reliability list. And how they are all up for raving about the Ford Maverick.. I believe reliability is negotiable to them, No back and forth, that was my point bro.


coincidence? the truck at the bottom just brought back hemi and tanked e toque and ended it's plans for an EV?

Because the Maverick is an excellent vehicle and is mature enough that recalls have addressed what issues it had. Consumer Reports is hardly unique in their rating. Find anyone saying otherwise in the automotive media, including those that do long term test fleets.

GM screwed the pooch with QC on crankshafts and it's beyond intelligent debate that RAM reliability took a massive dump with the switch to Atlantis. Ford's got a more mature product right now. Let them come out with a new generation and they'll have teething pains as well. The 2.7EB is one of the most dead nuts reliable motors on the market right now, with the 3.5L not far behind.

 

[MarshRam]

I like the part where sensors always go out, not the actual part it's sensing. 9 x outta 10, that's what I deal with. Next is a sensor for the sensor. LOL..

 

[kt4hx]

Pick a product, not just vehicles. Everything is made to break nowadays. Vehicles and houses are just the most expensive thing you buy that will be breaking.

Yeah, case in point refrigerators. Our primary frig failed at the end of May and had to be replaced after about 10.5 years service. While we have two over 20 yrs old smaller Sears Kenmore models (one in garage, one in finished basement) that keep chugging along. When we bought a new main level refrigerator in early June we were told to expect about 7 to 10 years service. Jeez!