Country girl 82
Junior Member
I purchased my 2011 Ram 1500 a little over 2 years ago. On drive home from purchasing noticed lights in the dash cluster going on and off. Dealership made it right, replacing the cluster (and the heated steering wheel that was working intermittently). Within less than 1 year I noticed my RPM gauge flickering and the heated steering wheel was still only working intermittently. The parts were still under warranty so they replaced them again! Day after getting it back the heated steering wheel doing the same thing! They finally figured out the it was the airbag clock sensor causing the issue and I had to pay for that fix. (I think it was that from the get go!) Now more issues...a couple months after new cluster, new steering wheel, and new airbag click sensor I noticed my gas gauge not going ALL THE WAY to full when I would fill up. And then within 20 miles dropping to between 3/4 and full. When down to 1/4 the DTE reads around 180 miles, gauge is obviously not correct! But my bigger issue...a couple times before the new parts, my headlights would stay on after shutting the truck off (knob in auto position) once for over 2 hours before I noticed! Turning the knob to off didn’t work, would have to start the truck, turn to off position and then shut the truck off. Dealership didn’t know why that was happening and of course didn’t do it for them. Also, sometimes the windows would roll down when truck was off! Sometimes only an inch, sometimes half way, sometimes all the way! I associated it to something with the fob as it had happened when I was right by the truck and the fob was in hand, I thought I had maybe pressed both the lock and unlock at the same time? It was also happening when my keys were in my purse after getting home and shutting truck off, and could have gotten pressed up against something when I was carrying stuff inside. I changed the battery in fob a couple months ago and hadn’t happened again, until last night! Came home late from our friends house, noticed my headlights hadn’t gone off but when I went to start it, as soon as I opened the door they went off. Thought all was good BUT this morning, after getting s couple inches of snow during the night, my boyfriend opened the door only to see both off my front windows down all the way and my headlights on, all night!!! And over an inch of snow in both front seats!!!!! I’ve been told by a local mechanic that my gen Ram is known for cluster and electrical issues! Of course the dealership would never tell me that because obviously Ram doesn’t have a solution! I’ve had it! Please help!
