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

[2025 rebel junk]

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.

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 .

 

[GreenTruck]

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.

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.

 

[GreenTruck]

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 .

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.

 

[2025 rebel junk]

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.

I know the body gaps are horrible so happy mine is black.

 

[firemedic10584]

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'

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.

 

[GreenTruck]

I know the body gaps are horrible so happy mine is black.

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.

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.

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.

 

[2025 rebel junk]

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.

 

[RamTruckMan]

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

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

 

[GreenTruck]

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.

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.