Where's the Jack? 2025 RAM 1500 Big Horn

[Wellcraft]

So I'm getting ready to take a trip out west and it occurred to me I don't see a jack in my truck, spare tire is where it's supposed to be but wondering where RAM stored the jack or it it missing? My truck was a leftover 25 purchased right before Christmas and I know cars that have been sitting on the lot a while sometimes things come up missing.

 

[Grams]

Under right front seat. Remove the plastic cover (below the right side of the passenger seat) by snapping it off…. You’ll find the jack as well as the spare-tire winch-handle and extension. (pain is the ar-se to use)

 

[Wellcraft]

Under right front seat. Remove the plastic cover (below the right side of the passenger seat) by snapping it off…. You’ll find the jack as well as the spare-tire winch-handle and extension. (pain is the ar-se to use)

Thanks and hopefully I won't have to use it

 

[Dean2]

Thanks and hopefully I won't have to use it

Read your owner's manual, especially since you are going on a long road trip. This answer is there but so are a ton of other useful bits of info. New vehicles have so many options and abilities you can't get the most out of them without reading the manual.

Something a simple as how to open the gas door on a GMC Terrain rental had to be looked up. No lever anywhere, no button or key. Had to have vehicle in park and drivers door open, then push on rear centre of gas door to open it.

 

[Wellcraft]

Something a simple as how to open the gas door on a GMC Terrain rental had to be looked up. No lever anywhere, no button or key. Had to have vehicle in park and drivers door open, then push on rear centre of gas door to open it.

This is absurd and the type of unnecessary nonsense that drives up the cost of vehicles.

 

[Dean2]

This absurd and the type of unnecessary nonsense that drives up the cost of vehicles

Well, call it whatever you want to, but if I had not figured it out using the owners manual, I would not have been able to refuel. There were quite a few other quirks I sorted out reading that manual. I would have never come up with the answer to the fuel door on my own, and I am pretty damn good with vehicles. Have owned a great many different brands but this one Buffaloed me.

Did not use to read owners manuals but when I got my first 2006 Lexus GS430 sport sedan, I learned the value of reading them. It was the first truly complicated and high end featured car I ever owned. Even the BMWs and Mercedes I had owned previously were not nearly this complicated or feature rich. This was the first one to have adaptive cruise, selectable ride, electronically controlled performance mapping etc. There were so many hidden features I would have never found without reading the manual. It is a truly great car and I use those hidden features all the time.

 

[British Bulldog]

The older trucks have a screw that goes thru jack body into truck floor. The newer ones, same idea but the jack sits over a threaded rod instead with a plastic wing nut. No more seized jack bolts!

 

[jc56berg]

Yea, I've seen what they call a "Jack" for my Ram. No kidding only if I had to absolutely use it to change a tire. I will call a wrecker if I couldn't limp it home. Like a slow leak nail and stop to put air in it (have an air pump in truck) a couple times. Insurance would reimburse me and maybe get it back under the seat like it was. I miss having a real jack and spare.

 

[MarshRam]

There was that one time I needed to find the jack. Asked on the forum, was told it's in the forum, look it up. I spent days looking through the hay stack for the needle and never found it, eventually had it towed. Fast forward 2 years later decided to clean my truck and there was a jack I found under the passenger seat. It was buried in perfectly good looking and what appeared to be still edible french fries and some coins, wrappers and a bunch of other $h.t. I took it out. Surprisingly, it unscrewed super easy. I think it was the grease from the french fries IMOHP. My truck did somehow smell better after this cleaning venture??? Anyhow, a couple years later found out the jack is worthless with my lift and so is the spare tire for the most part (talk about limping home), got it towed AGAIN. I used the coins I found under the seat to buy a 7 ton jack and I also ate the fries. They actually tasted and felt the same in my mouth as they did when I purchased them years earlier(weird).

ABSOLUTELY NO PUN INTENDED on the OP. My post is a total joke to give the guys a good laugh and none of it is true. Welcome to RAM Ownership @Wellcraft. You bought the right truck and came to the right place to learn more about it. As always, enjoy that truck and have fun!

 

[turkeybird56]

Thanks and hopefully I won't have to use it

Some folks will carry a 2-5 ton floor jack, I have a combo Jack Stand/3 ton bottle jack I carry when I travel. I also carry a long handled 1/2” socket sized breaker bar and a 22 MM 6 point socket when I travel. Lot easier to use than the silly wind up toy and mini handle they put in the trucks.

 

[Marshall]

This is absurd and the type of unnecessary nonsense that drives up the cost of vehicles.

try finding them on some late 1950's GM cars. 53 Caddy can fool you .
Wife's Honda ,I always open the hood, then have to go back and open the gas cap instead. But at least there is a gas cap as there should be.

I have taken my jack out a few times when I want to check to see if the spare tire winch is still not rusted up and check the air pressure, not that I have needed to change a tire on last 3 trucks.

When I use to pull a trailer around, I had a mediam size hyd floor jack I carried.
Seem like when you have all the equipment, you never need it .
I could say more on that ,But

 

[EdGs]

Some folks will carry a 2-5 ton floor jack, I have a combo Jack Stand/3 ton bottle jack I carry when I travel. I also carry a long handled 1/2” socket sized breaker bar and a 22 MM 6 point socket when I travel. Lot easier to use than the silly wind up toy and mini handle they put in the trucks.

Yep, I always carry a square of plywood in the truck, too. You never know when the jack will be positioned in softer soil, and it will provide stability and save grief.

Ditto on assortment of tools, you never know.

 

[Grams]

As a matter of fact… just last month (May ‘26) we had a blow-out traveling thru Grand Junction on our AirStream Rt side. For over a year, I had carried a New, never-used 3-ton H.F. floor jack in the bed under the tonneau. That was a LIFE SAVER.
It’s permanent equipment and the OEM will continue to live, completely unused under the pax seat.

(rest of story: The spare was flat. I’d ck’d it before the trip…but somewhere the schrader-valve must have been hit by an object and snapped. I had to use a jack on the flat-tire…jacking against the frame…to collapse the empty spare..down, off the bead…to steal the blown-out tires’ schrader to install it on the spare.*
A HF-hotdog compressor in the Rambox running off the Ram-inverter…aired up the spare.
Only two hours …and on-the-road-again…..

*thankfully, the schrader on the blown tire was an all-metal, high-pressure type and only needed a deep-socket to remove/re-install. The spare was a 15 yr old OEM rubber-schrader, and that tire was 15 yrs stuck onto that wheel. It took that hyd jack to press that 15-yr OEM tire down off the wheel. (Ramboxes hold so much… I LOVE them!)

 

[Grams]

Addendum: I had a ‘12 Ram 1500 Tradesman w/4.7 V8 for 212K miles …and it had Ramboxes.
I had added TrainHorns to that truck…and unwilling to pay the money they wanted for their air compressor…. but I found that a ($39 on-sale) H.F. 3-gal “hot-dog” air compressor would fit inside the Rambox If I stood it on-end….
I ran it’s 110-volt cord to a 400 watt inverter I had also installed… and left the inverter ON permanently. Whenever that little compressor detected less than about 85 psi…it would run and bring it up to 100 psi again. That’s how I permanently allowed it …for over 10 years.

My new ‘24 Ram 2150 Limited has an OEM 400 watt inverter…with an outlet inside the driver-side Rambox…. and so I’ve done the same routine with this new truck.

This proved to be a Real Life-Saver when I needed a “real blast of air” to “seat the bead” on a dismounted spare (that I had pressed-down off the wheel to replace that schrader valve on the side of a congested Interstate with my wife sitting inside the air-conditioned truck ….(with her finger on the “call” button to road-side-assistance because she was terrified of the 18-wheelers blowing-by while I was out there on my knees and laying under that Airstream tongue working of dismounting its spare.)

But all you Guys buck-up! … I held up our Image’s…. I never let her know I was scared also !

 

[Marshall]

I have never been on a hiway in Texas, but on the 2 lane hi ways around here , changing a tire on the edge of the road is something I will not do if the truck can still move.
The main hi ways are 4 lane , but wall to wall semi's and these days I don't trust them, some are great (old guys) the rest?? , I will not say more on that. just see the news.