Billet1500 4x4
Ram Guru
There was a software update for rear parking sensors to improve the sensitivity and false break alerts. The first one was issued in May 2018 which depending on when your truck was built it may already have this update from the factory, however another flash was issued May of this year that is also related to the parktronic module. You can see if either one or both of these apply to your truck and it might remedy your issue.I am new to the forum. I found this forum because I was searching for 2019 RAM brake issues. This is extremely discouraging to read through. Last fall (Fall of 2018) my company purchased 2 2019 RAM 1500's. I drive one daily (my daily driver) as well as employees of the company for some hauling and to run errands etc... My Father drives the other as his daily driver. I have 34K on my truck and have only experienced the first thing in the morning (typically in humid/wet conditions) brake noise. Although it is very annoying and I feel it shouldn't happen it goes right away. My Father has 17K on his truck and has experienced both the early morning issue as well as his truck is now squealing extremely loudly. So today it went to the dealer for the first time. On the way back from the dealer it seemed the squeal was far, far worse and more often. The dealer claims to have changed pad, rotors and calipers. My Sister (who is not very mechanical) was the one who drove the truck the 40 minutes to the dealer and back. She thinks they just did the rears as that's where it sounded like the noise was coming from. It seems to me by reading on the internet that RAM should at this point have a fix for this issue. This is absurd, I hate to think that we are only starting a long list of trips back and forth to the dealer. Once my Sister arrived back from the dealership we immediately called and were told to bring it back in (trip 2). They said that they would give us a loaner vehicle. We told them it needs to be a truck (we actually buy trucks because we use them as trucks). They said it was out of their control and would supply us most likely with a car.
My father made the comment that it's pretty embarrassing when you pull into a restaurant or shopping mall or up to a stop light in your new $69,000 truck and everyone is looking at you because it's so loud! On top of this I feel like an *** because he was literally was ready to pull the trigger on a 2019 New Gen GMC Denali. He had a 2015 Denali before this truck and a 2011 Ford Platinum before that. He put almost 100K miles on both of those trucks before with ZERO issues. We have always had GMC's and a few Ford's for 35+ years with near ZERO issues. He drove the RAM and was impressed with the design, fit and finish, power and so on. This is the latest problem on his rig. The screen has malfunctioned numerous times and stopped working. The Sensors appear to screw up occasionally (maily in the front) as the brakes on a few occasions on the Highway have signaled to stop and nearly locked the brakes up going down the highway. The power running boards (driver side) has stopped working multiple times. It has stuck up and also stuck down (it is not in the programming in the screen, this was verified). He did have this same thing happen with his Ford Platinum but at 90K miles and Ford covered parts. So of course I am getting a lot of crap from him. Hearing how he told me as he says "Dodge is junk! They're no good". I changed his mind and he was impressed in the begining but I have a feeling this truck is headed to the GMC dealer in the near future as a trade in.
My truck has not gone without issues either. There is an air dam apparently that opens and closes depending on speed etc... as you go down the highway. That has malfunctioned on me multiple times and am awaiting a call from the dealer to replace it all together. My steering wheel needs to be replaced as the outer layer or skin is pealing off. When I drive my hands literally turn black. My screen/stereo has also gone out multiple times. Though it usually self corrects fairly quickly it is annoying (my 2016 GMC also did this occasionally). The passengers seat has an extremely annoying squeak in it if anyone over 150 pounds sits in it (taking it back for this when it goes in for steering wheel and air dam replacement). The drivers rear door sounds like it's going to fall off or something inside of it has fallen off. It makes a terrible noise every time I open or close it. The drivers door has a black "guide rod" I guess I would call it and it is literally falling off and appears to be wearing out the bolt hole (I tightened it up when I noticed it but it keeps coming loose). Another extremely annoying thing (nothing wrong as the truck is supposed to do this but it is annoying) is when the truck is in reverse and the rear park sensors are on you can't back up by a blade of grass without getting whiplash! This is far to aggressive in my opinion. I have a very gentle slope in my driveway down to the main road. I literally can not back down the slight little incline with it on. It locks the brakes up every time. So I shut it off backing out. But with the RAM when you shut it off and cycle the key again it stays off. So naturally I forget to turn it back on and it won't work when I actually need it. Is this a setting I can change does anyone know? My 2016 GMC you could shut it off but once the key was cycled it always defaulted back to being on. I thought that to be a bit annoying when I had the GMC. However I would much rather that way vs. the RAM.
With all the above being said I really like the RAM a lot (at least mine). My Father I would say is not feeling the same way at this point. It has good power. The Transmission I am thoroughly impressed with and this seems to be the biggest complaint I've ever heard about Mopar is transmissions. The HEMI pulls good and gets great fuel mileage which really surprised me. It rides great. The fit and finish are good for the most part. Need to work on a few things but who doesn't. The screen is fast and easy to use (I have the smaller screen in my truck). Overall I like the truck. Just a few discouraging things and odd ball issues (at least with mine) that we don't typically see with our Fords and GMCs. So far RAM and the dealer have stepped up. But after reading this I'm pretty concerned about this brake issue.
