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2025 Ram 1500 Current Owners - Discussion, Feedback, and Problems

firemedic10584 said:
Has anyone else experienced a rattle noise coming from somewhere, either at the driver's door panel area or the A post grab handle area on their truck? I've already taken the door panel off and the A post handle trim piece off, and don't see anything that would be rattling. It's driving me insane! I'm also still getting wind noise while driving, as if the driver door isn't fully shut, but it is. Someone mentioned bending the B post of the driver door in some more, which I did, but it didn't seem to make a difference.
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I agree 25 doors need to be shut hard and window need to double checked cause they don't seat all the time. I have 14.5 screen and passenger screen hold dash makes plastic noise sucks. All the plastics are cheaper even the off road matts scratch when you touch them .
 
firemedic10584 said:
Has anyone else experienced a rattle noise coming from somewhere, either at the driver's door panel area or the A post grab handle area on their truck? I've already taken the door panel off and the A post handle trim piece off, and don't see anything that would be rattling. It's driving me insane! I'm also still getting wind noise while driving, as if the driver door isn't fully shut, but it is. Someone mentioned bending the B post of the driver door in some more, which I did, but it didn't seem to make a difference.
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I don't have that rattle but do have a clunk/thump sound coming from the rear axle/rear area every time I drive over a moderately sized bump in the road.

As far as the wind noise, I have that on the passenger side, loud enough that having a conversation on the phone without holding the phone to my ear is not happening. With my noise I have learned that it gets much worse anytime there is a cross breeze blowing and hitting the passenger side of the truck. It goes away briefly if I drive past something (woods/trees/etc) that blocks the wind from that side, then once past the obstacle it comes right back. A tech at the dealer came for a ride and admitted something is wrong but I don't think they've tried to figure that one out yet as there's a list of things wrong they're working on. Maybe your wind noise is related to a cross wind type situation also.
 
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2025 rebel junk said:
I agree 25 doors need to be shut hard and window need to double checked cause they don't seat all the time. I have 14.5 screen and passenger screen hold dash makes plastic noise sucks. All the plastics are cheaper even the off road matts scratch when you touch them .
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I need to shut the doors to get them to latch much harder than I would like, especially since at least with the rear doors every time I shut them the bottom half of the exterior sheet metal on the doors bounces back and forth a couple times after shutting, as if the metal is super thin or not attached very well. Maybe there's not a minimum thickness certain manufactures need to use? All I know for sure is I've never seen another truck that does this, but then again this is the first ram I've purchased so maybe it's normal for ram.
 
GreenTruck said:
I need to shut the doors to get them to latch much harder than I would like, especially since at least with the rear doors every time I shut them the bottom half of the exterior sheet metal on the doors bounces back and forth a couple times after shutting, as if the metal is super thin or not attached very well. Maybe there's not a minimum thickness certain manufactures need to use? All I know for sure is I've never seen another truck that does this, but then again this is the first ram I've purchased so maybe it's normal for ram.
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I know the body gaps are horrible so happy mine is black.
 
GreenTruck said:
I don't have that rattle but do have a clunk/thump sound coming from the rear axle/rear area every time I drive over a moderately sized bump in the road.

As far as the wind noise, I have that on the passenger side, loud enough that having a conversation on the phone without holding the phone to my ear is not happening. With my noise I have learned that it gets much worse anytime there is a cross breeze blowing and hitting the passenger side of the truck. It goes away briefly if I drive past something (woods/trees/etc) that blocks the wind from that side, then once past the obstacle it comes right back. A tech at the dealer came for a ride and admitted something is wrong but I don't think they've tried to figure that one out yet as there's a list of things wrong they're working on. Maybe your wind noise is related to a cross wind type situation also.I'
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I'm confident my seals just aren't sealed properly. When I'm stopped with cars going by, I can hear their tires rolling on the road as if I'm standing outside of my truck, if that makes sense. Something isn't right, but I know the dealer will be no help or say they don't hear anything out of the norm.
 
2025 rebel junk said:
I know the body gaps are horrible so happy mine is black.
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That must be specific to ram, I noticed that too and only have a few chevy's to compare it to and the chevys are much closer. Now that you mention it mine also has one of the rubber gasket type things between the box and cab that keeps coming loose, like the top foot or two and ends up sticking out a bit flapping in the wind. I pop it back in and then it's out again a short while later, it's like the holes that the rubber "nipples" poke into are either too large, or the rubber nipples are too small. This is also on the list for the dealer, I'm guessing they'll caulk it on or something as that's what I almost did.

firemedic10584 said:
I'm confident my seals just aren't sealed properly. When I'm stopped with cars going by, I can hear their tires rolling on the road as if I'm standing outside of my truck, if that makes sense. Something isn't right, but I know the dealer will be no help or say they don't hear anything out of the norm.
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That does make sense and is interesting, actually I'm not sure if mine does that too as I don't think I've ever been parked anywhere while cars were driving by, the truck literally had a little over 1k miles on it when I dropped it off at the dealer.
 
Classic ram had the best door seal down hill since 2018 model year. They barley touch in the winter snow and dirt slide pass them.I know cause i clean my door jams most don't.
 
wvinson said:
guess it depends on the model -- mine has adaptive cruise to the left and hands free assisted driving in the middle of the resume/cancel button
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Yeah. If hands free assisted isn’t an option in the truck, that button is the standard -plow into the traffic at whatever it’s set at- cruise control
 
2025 rebel junk said:
Classic ram had the best door seal down hill since 2018 model year. They barley touch in the winter snow and dirt slide pass them.I know cause i clean my door jams most don't.
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You and me both. Most times I hand wash my vehicles other than in the winter and I always clean and dry the door jambs when hand washing. I'm a little picky like that, which also explains why I do not care for all the defects some of these rams have, compared to those diehards that apparently are seemingly fine with the problems, or maybe they simply do not want to admit they made a mistake when buying their ram and try to sugarcoat the problems and complete lack of ram quality control in an effort to block out reality. If I had gotten my ram for almost free I could TRY to ignore some of the issues too but that was not the case, I actually paid for mine so I'm far from being a ram/stellantis-apologist or a ram-fan-boy.

I found the following post on another forum, where someone was asking why stellantis vehicles have so many problems, or something to that effect; the post was written 2 months ago.


"Actually, I feel uniquely qualified to answer this. I turned down a job opportunity last year for a consulting firm hired by Stellantis. The problem: Stellantis was buying back over $1/2 a Billion in lemons law buy backs per year. The role I would have played would be managing a large metropolitan area as a hybrid business & automotive technician advisor for Stellantis dealerships. The goal of the job would be working with dealerships as a resource to minimize the number of cars Stellantis was stuck buying back.

Something even the recruiter pointed out to me was many of the c-suit staffers scoffed, laughed, and ridiculed the notion that $1/2 a Billion in buybacks was unacceptable. He surmised that they felt like Stellantis was "too big to fail".

As I reflected on the job; and other opportunities wrapping up my education was presenting me – one thought I couldn't shake was, "Man, these guys will literally do anything else except fix their real issues." Include pay someone like me to be a corporate enforcer with a friendly disposition towards their dealerships and customers.

The problem isn't capitalism, the auto industry, or anything else except Stellantis has a rotten corporate culture. There are companies with good cultures, and companies with bad cultures. Some companies are a mix. Stellantis is rotten and complacent."


^THAT^ makes a lot of sense, and seems very accurate IMO.
 
So I got some new tires today and they are a little bigger than the stock ones. My screen is still non-responsive and the dealer still has no eta for a new screen. Because Ram decided to make the ride height buttons digital instead of physical, I cannot adjust ride height using the screen.
Does anyone know how to make the truck ride in “normal” mode instead of aero when driving around town? I know that I set my default ride height to aero so it won’t automatically raise my height up.
The key fob only seems to either let me lower it down to low entry or aero mode.
Somehow the guys at the tire shop got the truck to go into “normal” ride height but I have no idea how they did it. Putting the truck into 4wd doesn’t seem to raise the height either. Is there a way to do it from the drivers screen?
 
RedFred said:
I can't go back to the same old hemi that came out in 2009. I'm all for a hemi, but they need a new improved more powerful V8. The hurricane motor has been impressive so far, I can't go backwards. 😢
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Totally agree. All the complaints were about the engine sound… I get that but I’d rather have the performance and capability. And I certainly wouldn’t go Hemi without the eTorque but, that’s still less powerful and more gas greedy. I just don’t see the appeal
 
Yeah, if they put an updated 6.4 Hemi in the 1500 - something with comparable HP and Torque to the SST HO, and at least equal on mileage, I would be interested.

But, I really can't see that being feasible. I don't think the tech/engineering is there to build a big, naturally-aspirated V8 that can make the power and torque of the SST HO and still keep fuel economy on par.
 
RedFred said:
I can't go back to the same old hemi that came out in 2009. I'm all for a hemi, but they need a new improved more powerful V8. The hurricane motor has been impressive so far, I can't go backwards. 😢
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StuartV said:
Yeah, if they put an updated 6.4 Hemi in the 1500 - something with comparable HP and Torque to the SST HO, and at least equal on mileage, I would be interested.

But, I really can't see that being feasible. I don't think the tech/engineering is there to build a big, naturally-aspirated V8 that can make the power and torque of the SST HO and still keep fuel economy on par.
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And to top it all off, they’re basically adding it to the 2025 as far as I can tell, so, the same issues (that aren’t fixed yet) could still appear…
 
At this point, I have to wonder if Stellantis is going to end up really regretting bringing the Hemi back.

They have no doubt already lost a number of potential Hemi customers, either to other brands, or to people like me/us that bought an SST, or possibly even counting people who went ahead and bought a new RAM sooner than they would have, just to get one of the last of the V8s. All of which would result in a slump in sales of the V8 that they are bringing back now compared to what it might have been if the V8 had stayed in production all along.

I suspect the SST motor is going to continue to gain followers as people like us talk about how great they are, and people go to dealerships and test drive them or ride in a friend's or whatever.

I hope Stellantis does not invest too much in bringing the Hemi back. Especially if it's going to just be the same old Hemi they were making before.

I suspect it will go away again in another 2 or maybe 3 years. Between the SST motors and then what the Ramcharger will do to sales of everything else I just don't see continuing to offer 4 different gas motors (2 x SST, 1 x Hemi, 1 x Pentastar) with the Hemi being the 3rd strongest out of 4.

I think even the most devout V8 loyalists will start to choke on buying a Hemi when there are 2 other standard motors that are significantly stronger AND at least Chevy has a bigger, stronger V8 that also gets better mileage.
 
A desperate attempt to bring in former or new customers.
I am glad that, finally, "an American" leadership that understands the market needs and love of gas-guzzling V8s is in charge of RAM. I am serious.
I detested Carlos Tovariss and the rest of the idiots who were making decisions for CDJR products. They have no clue about what we need or think we need.

Truck makers like RAM (purely American) need to be owned by folks who understand our likes/dislikes.

I miss my Hemi, would I buy it again -- probably.
My SO Hurcaine engine is much more "peppier" than the Hemi. Do I like it more? by a fraction. Hate no dipstick!!

They need to focus on dismal quality and reliability issues with a half-*** remodeled truck.
 
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