Crickets!!

[MRob1500]

2025 Ram 1500 Bighorn 3.0L Hurricane midnight edition 3k miles. Absolutely love the truck and so far so good on the new powertrain. I do have a noise that’s somewhat strange. When in a drive through or slow traffic I hear chirping or a cricket type sound mostly when I release the break peddle. Has no affect on performance and the truck sounds perfectly normal, but that sound is interesting to say the very least. Anyone else carrying a box of crickets in your new 2025?

 

[Insanity]

In my 21 I had dry and squeaky bushings in my brake pedal assembly a little lube and it stopped.

 

[PetePA]

No crickets, but every car parked in the garage gets mice in it somehow.

 

[scottmoyer]

Check the brake pad clips. There are many posts around this issue. I removed my pads and put high temp grease all over the clips and I've had no issues for many thousands of miles.

 

[RedFred]

2025 Ram 1500 Bighorn 3.0L Hurricane midnight edition 3k miles. Absolutely love the truck and so far so good on the new powertrain. I do have a noise that’s somewhat strange. When in a drive through or slow traffic I hear chirping or a cricket type sound mostly when I release the break peddle. Has no affect on performance and the truck sounds perfectly normal, but that sound is interesting to say the very least. Anyone else carrying a box of crickets in your new 2025?

Would probably help if you could say roughly where the sound is coming from. Are we talking about a sound coming from the brake pedal area or from the wheel calipers?

 

[MRob1500]

Would probably help if you could say roughly where the sound is coming from. Are we talking about a sound coming from the brake pedal area or from the wheel calipers?

Only hear with window down of course but sounds as if it’s front and rear driver side. Reading up more on the brake hardware.

 

[MRob1500]

Check the brake pad clips. There are many posts around this issue. I removed my pads and put high temp grease all over the clips and I've had no issues for many thousands of miles.

Will do! I was just talking to a guy today about that. What is weird is it doesn’t do it all the time. It definitely sounds break related though so diving in to that.

 

[MRob1500]

No crickets, but every car parked in the garage gets mice in it somehow.

No mice lol. And crickets definitely just a sarcastic way of striking a conversation. But yeah it’s definitely interesting and not all the time. Window down left side of truck when releasing the breaks. Diving into hardware and seeing if that helps.

 

[Jedi9]

I get the foghorn moan when I back out the driveway every morning

 

[Scram1500]

Break peddle anything like the brake pedal? If so, it's defintely your pads squeaking in the caliper. Mine has done it since new for the last 5 years, stops for a while if you grease them. I should have installed new shims by now but I've grown to like Jiminy

 

[MRob1500]

Break peddle anything like the brake pedal? If so, it's defintely your pads squeaking in the caliper. Mine has done it since new for the last 5 years, stops for a while if you grease them. I should have installed new shims by now but I've grown to like Jiminy

She’s getting her first oil change this weekend and they said they would check out my brake hardware as well. The book calls for 5000 mile intervals on oil changes but with this being the break-in, even though I know people say that that’s not a thing anymore, I was raised to believe there’s always a break-in lol so I decided to change it at 4000. Hopefully soon I won’t have to drive so damn much back-and-forth to work.

 

[dajogejr]

Curious, what Book says 5K miles oil changes?
Are you doing a lot of light towing?

 

[MRob1500]

Curious, what Book says 5K miles oil changes?
Are you doing a lot of light towing?

Definitely not the owners manual because unless I’m missing something there isn’t a service schedule in the owners manual? At least not from what I’ve seen. And “book” is a strong word I suppose so my apologies.. I have a packet that was given to me from my the dealer and there is some service info for the new trucks in there. I was reading “light towing” to be 5k-8k.. daily looks like 10k.. with that said, I do tow a few times a week and it’s not heavy but towing a 7x12 with tools inside. So I will be doing changes at an 5k interval. Unless a tech tell me that’s not ideal on this engine for some reason? Anyways, I don’t believe in 7-10k changes on oil. Never have and won’t start now. My hemi got oil changes at 4k for 5 years.. Again that’s a personal preference.

 

[dajogejr]

Heard MRob. Best/Worst part is.. it’s all on you. Your money, your truck, you spend and do as you see fit.
Everyone is gonna have an opinion, and that’s all it is

I believe in a balance of proper maintenance and wasting money.
And by wasting, I mean more than necessary…or needed.

Light towing, 5K intervals…you’ll never have an oil related maintenance problem.
Or I should say.. you won’t have any issues as a direct result of lack of maintenance.

When it comes to manufactures defect/failures… it’s luck of the draw man.

Sorry, back on topic. I agree with others. You can, as a brand new truck.. have the dealer locate it under warranty… or, you could probably add some high temp grease to the hardware, that would also be my guess.

 

[2021EcoDiesel]

Another vote for the front brake clips/hardware. Mine made that exact noise you're describing when moving in slow traffic, as well as a chirping rattle when going over bumps when not on the brakes. With the brake pedal pressed the noise over bumps went away. I replaced my hardware with aftermarket ones when my truck had 10k miles on it and it has been much quieter. A little grease may help quiet them down as well if replacement isn't an option. (Don't get grease on the braking surfaces of pads or rotors) lol