Tyranny Issues 2016

[etbrown4]

My 2016 tyranny failed at 60k. Can be hard to tell at first with slight slips often as warming up, mostly between 1, 2, and 3rd .

I've found you can tell the most on cold mornings if you can start off on a somewhat downhill road, and accelerate lightly up to 30 mph. Acellerating under normal or high power won't show much.

As my troubles progressed, I would rarely get a clunk between 2 and 3, again slips between gears on light accelerating downhill below 30.

If you get a flashing P or D on the shifter knob, that can be a clue of trouble coming.

Ram dealers will ignore ALL tyranny complaints until you finally get a tyranny error code. With 3 shops, they even declined to drive mine, until the code showed up.

They first replaced the tyranny valve body, hoping to save money. Finally after 4 months they gave me a new tyranny. On a hemi 1500, it's the same tyranny for 16, 17, and 2018.

If buying a used 16, 17, or 2018, I would get enough discount to buy a Ram extended warranty. You can get them online, actually from a Ram dealer for about $1500 for 2 or 3 years and about 60k additional miles.

If you end up needing a tyranny, it will cost a fortune.

I found all this the hard way.

 

[kurek]

I hope that the three coequal branches do their job to prevent tyranny.

But this is a truck forum

 

[JoeCo]

I hope that the three coequal branches do their job to prevent tyranny.

But this is a truck forum

Had to read that in Charles Barkley voice, reminded me of "turrible".

 

[tfeni52355]

Or “basketball turnament”. I hear it all the time.


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[GunnyZXR]

Had to read that in Charles Barkley voice, reminded me of "turrible".

Samuel Jackson voice with a mother f**&%"er in the sentence a couple times....

 

[JoeCo]

Samuel Jackson voice with a mother f**&%"er in the sentence a couple times....

Hahaha maybe a hybrid of sir Charles with Samuel Jackson? Reread it like that, good for some laughs!

 

[IRSmart]

I don’t know what’s more impressive. The fact that op typed tyranny 8 times, or that were now on post #7 of complete non-help lol

 

[JoeCo]

I don’t know what’s more impressive. The fact that op typed tyranny 8 times, or that were now on post #7 of complete non-help lol

Haha those are both fair observations, however, I viewed what he typed as more of a cautionary tale as opposed to him having questions.

 

[kurek]

I dunno man there are a couple sides to all that...

There's ribbing because tyranny is.. kind of a funny misspelling and like you said 8 times (and on another thread too..) - OP it's "Tranny" like your uncle Judy, tyranny is what dictators do like that pe**s in charge of Turkmenistan.

On one hand the transmissions in these trucks - 6 and 8 speed alike - are pretty well proven machines with many hundreds of thousands of them on the road doing work every day and really I don't think the failure rate is that high. Any product is going to have some small percent that fails prematurely but these trucks just don't seem to have that kind of epidemic going on. Not like the 9 speed in other FCA products.. ugh.

But I can sympathize with an owner who says the company won't own a real problem. FCA refused to own the problem with my (bought new off the lot) Jeep until I started calling executives at home while they were eating dinner and that was after I spent three months trying to do it their way through normal channels.