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I’m very frustrated
I have a new 2022 Ram 1500 Big Horn with a 5.7 hemi etorque engine. I was told by a plow company that they could put a plow on it. So I had them put the plow bracket and wiring harness on. However, in order to install the plow bracket, they had to remove the air dam.
The air dam is located in the front grill behind the bumper. it is a plastic strip that extends the with of the truck. The plastic strip is mounted to a metal rod that is mounted to either side of the truck. On one aside of the metal rod there is a little electric motor. This motor is connect to the computer system in the truck. When the plow company removed the air dam, and after I drove some miles, my engine light came on. I took it to the dealer and they said nothing could be done to fix it and I would have to take the plow bracket off and put the air dam back on.
I called the plow company and the said they had a solution. They reinstalled the metal rod and mounts including the motor. In this way, the computer thinks the air dam is on the truck. It did work for 2 days but now the engine light is back on.
What’s really bad is that sometimes the engine stalls, the truck automatically goes into park and the emergency break goes on. Then I have to re-start the truck and release the emergency break Before I can continue driving.
in addition to the engine light and the stalling problem the dealer tells me that the air dam is part of the emission control. So now on top of everything else the truck probably won’t pass emissions test.
Does anyone have any ideas or solutions. I have contact Ram but no solution was given. I was hoping they could re-program the computer to have a way to turn the air dam off. I’m going to keep on them until I get resolution.
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I have a new 2022 Ram 1500 Big Horn with a 5.7 hemi etorque engine. I was told by a plow company that they could put a plow on it. So I had them put the plow bracket and wiring harness on. However, in order to install the plow bracket, they had to remove the air dam.
The air dam is located in the front grill behind the bumper. it is a plastic strip that extends the with of the truck. The plastic strip is mounted to a metal rod that is mounted to either side of the truck. On one aside of the metal rod there is a little electric motor. This motor is connect to the computer system in the truck. When the plow company removed the air dam, and after I drove some miles, my engine light came on. I took it to the dealer and they said nothing could be done to fix it and I would have to take the plow bracket off and put the air dam back on.
I called the plow company and the said they had a solution. They reinstalled the metal rod and mounts including the motor. In this way, the computer thinks the air dam is on the truck. It did work for 2 days but now the engine light is back on.
What’s really bad is that sometimes the engine stalls, the truck automatically goes into park and the emergency break goes on. Then I have to re-start the truck and release the emergency break Before I can continue driving.
in addition to the engine light and the stalling problem the dealer tells me that the air dam is part of the emission control. So now on top of everything else the truck probably won’t pass emissions test.
Does anyone have any ideas or solutions. I have contact Ram but no solution was given. I was hoping they could re-program the computer to have a way to turn the air dam off. I’m going to keep on them until I get resolution.
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