What's new
By:
5thGenRams Forums

Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

Leaking oil pan

Bigbags85

Bigbags85

Ram Guru
Joined
Jun 18, 2021
Messages
509
Reaction score
358
Points
63
Age
41
Location
WNY
My 22s oil pan is already rusting and leaking. Anyone else have this happen? I've lived in the rust belt most of my life and the only oil pan I've ever had to change was on a 91 crown vic and that thing was 13yrs old with 200k on it. Are these just POSs on these new vehicles? Has anyone had luck finding an aluminum pan? I don't really wanna change this out every 4yrs.
 
Couple of threads on this, dealership might help you out

Einstein376

Thread 'Rusted Oil Pan'

Today while getting an oil change on my 2019 Ram, the tech pointed out my oil pan was rusting out at 57,000 miles and that the dip stick tube was hanging loose. I have an appointment with my dealer for the oil pan and I am wondering if anyone else has seen this. The shop doing the oil change has seen a number of these on other Rams.

JimIMG_0293.jpeg
  • Like

BrotherStyles

Thread 'Hemi Rusty Oil Pans'

Hey everybody while under my truck replacing my sway bar bushings which turned out great. I was looking around as I really do not service my new cars. I noticed the oil pan to be in very rough shape and worse than I have ever saw on a new truck/car under 4 years old and under 100,000 kms. Who else has Had this issue with a 5th Gen ? Also did it get covered by warranty as this is clearly poor metal or just crap paint on the oil pan. Funny thing a new pan is under $300 CAD. The dealership that I spend a lot of money in service with them their manager said it can not be covered as it...
  • Angry
  • Wow
 
kdoublep said:
Why are you not using some protection?
Click to expand...
The truck is undercoated and like I said above I've only ever had to change one oil pan in my life and that was on 12yr old Ford with 200k on it. I've had multiple vehicles with 230 thousand miles on them that were 15yrs old and the pans never rusted out. This vehicle is 4yrs old
Scram1500 said:
Couple of threads on this, dealership might help you out

Einstein376

Thread 'Rusted Oil Pan'

Today while getting an oil change on my 2019 Ram, the tech pointed out my oil pan was rusting out at 57,000 miles and that the dip stick tube was hanging loose. I have an appointment with my dealer for the oil pan and I am wondering if anyone else has seen this. The shop doing the oil change has seen a number of these on other Rams.

JimIMG_0293.jpeg
  • Like

BrotherStyles

Thread 'Hemi Rusty Oil Pans'

Hey everybody while under my truck replacing my sway bar bushings which turned out great. I was looking around as I really do not service my new cars. I noticed the oil pan to be in very rough shape and worse than I have ever saw on a new truck/car under 4 years old and under 100,000 kms. Who else has Had this issue with a 5th Gen ? Also did it get covered by warranty as this is clearly poor metal or just crap paint on the oil pan. Funny thing a new pan is under $300 CAD. The dealership that I spend a lot of money in service with them their manager said it can not be covered as it...
  • Angry
  • Wow
Click to expand...
Thanks, I've looked through those before it supposedly seemed limited to 19s. It's going to the dealer on Thursday we'll see what happens.
 
Bigbags85 said:
The truck is undercoated and like I said above I've only ever had to change one oil pan in my life and that was on 12yr old Ford with 200k on it. I've had multiple vehicles with 230 thousand miles on them that were 15yrs old and the pans never rusted out. This vehicle is 4yrs old

Thanks, I've looked through those before it supposedly seemed limited to 19s. It's going to the dealer on Thursday we'll see what happens.
Click to expand...
My bad. Didn't see. Good luck!
 
Bigbags85 said:
My 22s oil pan is already rusting and leaking. Anyone else have this happen? I've lived in the rust belt most of my life and the only oil pan I've ever had to change was on a 91 crown vic and that thing was 13yrs old with 200k on it. Are these just POSs on these new vehicles? Has anyone had luck finding an aluminum pan? I don't really wanna change this out every 4yrs.
Click to expand...
kdoublep said:
My bad. Didn't see. Good luck!
Click to expand...
He didn't say anything about undercoating, so you didn't miss anything.

@RamCares can you help?
 
Bigbags85 said:
My 22s oil pan is already rusting and leaking. Anyone else have this happen? I've lived in the rust belt most of my life and the only oil pan I've ever had to change was on a 91 crown vic and that thing was 13yrs old with 200k on it. Are these just POSs on these new vehicles? Has anyone had luck finding an aluminum pan? I don't really wanna change this out every 4yrs.
Click to expand...
Hi there, feel free to send our team a private message for an extra layer of assistance alongside the dealer.

Diamond
Ram Cares
 
This is another reason I just traded my 2019 Rebel. 7 year old truck and the oil pan just got worse, and worse, every single year. I asked my dealer and they said unless it's leaking, we can't warranty it. With my warranty being up in 6 months, I chose to not take my chances.

The replacement is not easy. A gentleman did it on here and supposedly you have to drop the front axle, unbolt motor mounts, then jack the motor up to get the pan off.

Good luck, really hope Ram steps up and does the right thing.
 
TheWaterman83 said:
This is another reason I just traded my 2019 Rebel. 7 year old truck and the oil pan just got worse, and worse, every single year. I asked my dealer and they said unless it's leaking, we can't warranty it. With my warranty being up in 6 months, I chose to not take my chances.

The replacement is not easy. A gentleman did it on here and supposedly you have to drop the front axle, unbolt motor mounts, then jack the motor up to get the pan off.

Good luck, really hope Ram steps up and does the right thing.
Click to expand...
The 7.3 ford diesel was worse, have to pull the engine to change the pan, they rusted too.
Paul B
 
TheWaterman83 said:
This is another reason I just traded my 2019 Rebel. 7 year old truck and the oil pan just got worse, and worse, every single year. I asked my dealer and they said unless it's leaking, we can't warranty it. With my warranty being up in 6 months, I chose to not take my chances.

The replacement is not easy. A gentleman did it on here and supposedly you have to drop the front axle, unbolt motor mounts, then jack the motor up to get the pan off.

Good luck, really hope Ram steps up and does the right thing.
Click to expand...
I don't blame you I've been thinking about trading it in as well. What'd you trade it in for?
 
Paul B said:
The 7.3 ford diesel was worse, have to pull the engine to change the pan, they rusted too.
Paul B
Click to expand...

My 02 Subaru Outback, you had pull the engine to replace the head gaskets. Those engines were known to blow head gaskets and Subaru did nothing to help you. I ended up doing that job myself. That was the last time I pulled a motor and dropped it back in after repairs.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 1 (members: 0, guests: 1)

Site Vendors

https://www.jasonlewisautomotive.com/

Members online

Total: 1,288 (members: 18, guests: 1,270)
Back
Top