What DON'T you like about your RAM?

[corneileous]

I got two 2015 pws and both oil filters were on so tight I had to destroy them to get them off I used two different types of filter wrench’s the socket kind just stripped and the strap kind just crushed it

Was this when the trucks were new?

 

[BuschLatte420]

Bad thing is, you’re going to find shoddy Quality Control in a lot of things these days in every vehicle manufacturer but the cool thing is, a lot of that stuff can be easily fixed/corrected.

When I got my new ram, the hole that little screw goes in that secures the front end of the stainless trim over the rubber window gasket at the bottom of the window on the driver side passenger door was stripped from being over tightened so all I did was just got a little bit larger screw and just like that, problem solved.

They had also used two different types of magnet latches that secures the upper flap over the storage pockets on the back side of the front seats; the ornamental latches still looked the same on the outside, but the way the magnets were attached on the underside was not the same as the other one and on the one that I was having problems with, I just drilled out the rivet that held the magnet in place and put a screw in it because the one on the other side actually had a screw instead of a rivet so with that, within a half hour I had that problem solved.

One other thing I found shortly after I bought it was when they tightened down the screws that held both stainless trims on the window gasket at the bottom of the windows of the front doors, they accidentally put a crinkle in that black vinyl tape crap they apply to the doors to the rear of the front windows and in front of the back windows and after I found a discussion where people were talking about removing that stuff, I just decided to peel mine off and was much happier with the look after it was taken off of there.

But yeah, it would’ve been nice if they would’ve used see-through plastic for the coolant overflow tank but at least they included a little dipstick in there so you can see how much you have but, I don’t know about you, it’s pretty easy to tell the difference between which cap the coolant goes in and which cap the washer fluid goes in.

I can tell, but if it’s ever at the dealer and the young lowest paid person goes to fill something…just hope they look at symbols. And I see that these days as said had a lemon Toyota 4 runner known to be the best of the best. Main thing with that was horrible paint & a shimmy, shake, vibration issue that could not be resolved, guess it’s a known thing. Which I woulda test drove longer. Love the ram drive wise vs the 4 runner all day!

 

[4xdad]

Yes brand new off the lot came that way from the factory

 

[corneileous]

Yes brand new off the lot came that way from the factory

I was pretty certain you had to have been talking about when these trucks were brand new and it was time to do the first oil change but this isn’t necessarily something about your trucks though, this has to do with the robot at the factory that installs the oil filters.

I thought this was just a fairly recent thing as I had no idea this went all the way back to 2015 but from what I read on here a couple years ago, you’re much better off to just let the dealership do your first oil change so that they can deal with that ungodly tight oil filter and if they happen to screw something up, it’s on their dime to fix.

 

[LumberJakl]

Just had a $6000 repair bill to replace all the lifters and push rods. Surprisingly the Camshaft was in great shape, so that was untouched...
150,000 km on truck, and I have as much idle time as engine hours due to a lot of idle time when I used my truck for work in the oilfield...

I think I will sit on this truck for another couple years before something else happens and trade it in.

 

[corneileous]

Just had a $6000 repair bill to replace all the lifters and push rods. Surprisingly the Camshaft was in great shape, so that was untouched...
150,000 km on truck, and I have as much idle time as engine hours due to a lot of idle time when I used my truck for work in the oilfield...

I think I will sit on this truck for another couple years before something else happens and trade it in.

Well, if excessive idling actually does play a big role in whether or not you become a statistic to the dreaded cam and lifter failure, I would say that in this instance it’s not necessarily the trucks fault. I mean, better, more reliable, engine parts could probably prevent this from happening all the way around but still- on an engine with known problems, I would only be idling as little as I could.

 

[4xdad]

Unfortunately my ocd wouldn’t allow me to let the trucks go more than 1000 kms before I looked in the oil filter and I only let other people wrench certain stuff on my truck I always do my own service greasing etc messy jobs like the transmission service I let the dealership do but I inspect it before I leave the lot

 

[4xdad]

Sometimes ocd is apita but it can save a lot of money

 

[LumberJakl]

Well, if excessive idling actually does play a big role in whether or not you become a statistic to the dreaded cam and lifter failure, I would say that in this instance it’s not necessarily the trucks fault. I mean, better, more reliable, engine parts could probably prevent this from happening all the way around but still- on an engine with known problems, I would only be idling as little as I could.

For sure, I never said it was the trucks fault - its just that I've now experienced the cam lifter failures like other people had. I couldn't ask for a better truck for my needs and it has accomplished it. Now that's its fixed and working 100%, I will stick with it for now until I need to upgrade to a Cummins.
Just like everyone else, I was hoping it wouldn't happen to me :/

 

[TestPilot57]

Here’s one I just thought about that I feel is a little bit more legit than whining about wanting a CD player but didn’t buy a truck that had one but I guess one of my other gripes- on second thought, it’s not really a gripe, it’s just more along the lines of, why did they design it that way but when they designed the premium projector headlights, why didn’t they make them like the near-identical projector headlights in the Dodge Durango‘s that had the white LED DRL‘s on the same board that had the orange marker lights and turn signals on the bottom of the headlights? Doesn’t seem to me like it would’ve been all that hard to do when there’s several companies in the aftermarket that make some upgraded LED boards to go in projector headlights to make them how they should’ve been when they came out of the factory.

I found out there’s a dedicated DRL wire that goes into the headlight plug on the truck side but because there is no white LED DRL in the headlights, they somehow connected that wire to the turn signal which means if you have alpha OBD, it doesn’t matter if you select turn signal or dedicated as your chosen location of your DRL’s because both those two selections is going to make the brighter side of your orange LED strips light up.

I guess it’s nice they finally incorporated this on the new fifth GEN body styles but why couldn’t they have done this on the fourth gens that have the premium projector headlights? Just doesn’t make sense to me.

Not sure if I get all the nuances of your post, but I upgraded my 4th gen projector lights to Morimoto HIDs via Retroshop.us. The only better headlights I've had (maybe) were in my 2009 MB CLS 550 ($100k+ car in today dollars).