2019 Ram 1500 Laramie 4x4 - Clicking Noise

[BrianP]

Hi everyone. My wife drives a 2019 Ram 1500 Laramie Crew Cab 4x4. 5.7 Hemi Engine. It currently has 123k miles. It is now making a clicking sound that I can feel in the steering wheel and sounds like it's coming from deep behind the dashboard. It only seems to do it in Drive (not in reverse) and the clicking sound changes frequency with speed (gets faster as I go faster). I haven't driven it other than back and forth in the driveway. The steering wheel makes no noises when in park and the wheel is turned. Turning the wheel when going forward has no effect on the noise, either (seems speed is the main cause). It starts as soon as I remove my foot and idle forward in drive. Accelerator pedal doesn't make it change frequency, only movement does from what I am seeing so far. I don't think it's a clockspring because it's silent in park and changes frequency with speed. It isn't so much a knock as a loud click and vibration. Seeing as how it's speed dependent, I would assume it's axles/wheels/transmission/driveshaft-related, but I've never seen that where it's felt/heard primarily in the dash/steering wheel. Any thoughts? Thanks!

 

[Jrun50]

Is it like buzzing noise? I had something similar and changed my tires and it went away.

 

[kapinallinen2]

Hi everyone. My wife drives a 2019 Ram 1500 Laramie Crew Cab 4x4. 5.7 Hemi Engine. It currently has 123k miles. It is now making a clicking sound that I can feel in the steering wheel and sounds like it's coming from deep behind the dashboard. It only seems to do it in Drive (not in reverse) and the clicking sound changes frequency with speed (gets faster as I go faster). I haven't driven it other than back and forth in the driveway. The steering wheel makes no noises when in park and the wheel is turned. Turning the wheel when going forward has no effect on the noise, either (seems speed is the main cause). It starts as soon as I remove my foot and idle forward in drive. Accelerator pedal doesn't make it change frequency, only movement does from what I am seeing so far. I don't think it's a clockspring because it's silent in park and changes frequency with speed. It isn't so much a knock as a loud click and vibration. Seeing as how it's speed dependent, I would assume it's axles/wheels/transmission/driveshaft-related, but I've never seen that where it's felt/heard primarily in the dash/steering wheel. Any thoughts? Thanks!

Have you figured it out yet?

 

[BowDown]

Check the CV joints on the front