My Rebel Bit Me!!!!

[Mattiusmaximus1216]

Stupid door locks took a chunk out of me. Im going to be honest and say this has happen more often then none.

 

[djevox]

Reminds me of “slide thumb”.

 

[Burnzie]

I would think in this day and age their would be more important things to complain about, but that's just me.

 

[djevox]

I would think in this day and age their would be more important things to complain about, but that's just me.

 

[IndianaRam]

HAHA! Same thing happened to me a couple of times too!

 

[Bob.]

Do the jeep thing and remove the doors.

 

[SD Rebel]

That's interesting, I'm the type of person that something like this would happen, but I haven't experienced this yet. What exactly happens to trigger the bite?

 

[Mattiusmaximus1216]

I would think in this day and age their would be more important things to complain about, but that's just me.

Your right…..until the internet was developed….now I have the ability to cry and whine about whatever pleases me lmao…..


But yes you are right, there are more relevant things to be concerned about.

 

[Mattiusmaximus1216]

That's interesting, I'm the type of person that something like this would happen, but I haven't experienced this yet. What exactly happens to trigger the bite?

My arm was on the passenger door trim by the door lock. Soon as the truck moves it auto locks and takes some meat with it.

 

[Ramgoose]

My arm was on the passenger door trim by the door lock. Soon as the truck moves it auto locks and takes some meat with it.

I have five grown sons and it gives me great pleasure when they’re in town and my Rebel bites one of them. It’s payback for all the years of slamming my doors!

 

[Idahoktm]

My arm was on the passenger door trim by the door lock. Soon as the truck moves it auto locks and takes some meat with it.

"Since the work of Pavlov, it has been known that pain is a potent aversive stimulus for creating salient memories. It induces single event learning, with associated memories potentially lasting a lifetime." Apparently, the pain associated with the door lock pinching your arm isn't significant enough to alter your behavior...yet. After it pinches your arm a few more times, I'm willing to bet you won't put your arm on top of the door until after the doors have locked.

 

[SD Rebel]

My arm was on the passenger door trim by the door lock. Soon as the truck moves it auto locks and takes some meat with it.

Gotcha, that makes sense, I have pretty long arms so I never had them in that position, but definitely see it can happen.

 

[AlbertaClipper]

Happened to me twice, and I yelped both times.

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[Dewey]

Be careful. Next thing you know RAM will be putting big yellow pinch point caution stickers on the door panels just like those damn visor stickers.

 

[Terrible_One]

Both my wife and I have had the auto door locks take a bite out of our arms on both sides of the truck. It's not fun. What I notice is the REAR door locks stick up higher than the front, so this would never happen in the back. Why the front door locks pull below the door sill is why it does this and I have no idea why they made it different from front to rear. If both sets of doors were like the rear, this wouldn't happen. Another odd design choice by Stellantis/FCA/Chrysler/Daimler/Mopar/Dodge/RAM or whatever we call them these days, haha.

 

[Bob.]

Maybe try to unscrew the door lock stems and swap them for the back or replace them with something longer? Sometimes they do things for a reason. Maybe they are like that are for collision/safety reasons.

 

[GAscooter]

Mine did that a few times to my wife, so I turned that feature off.

 

[jimothy]

In about 3 years of 5GR ownership, I haven’t had this happen to me, which lead me to wonder why? I think it’s an advantage of being short: I don’t put my arm on that part of the door, and instead use the lower arm rest part of the door.

Sure, I have to use rock climbing equipment to get in and out of my truck, but being short does have some perks.

 

[KMach]

There is a TSB for this concern if your truck fits the criteria. Can’t remember the cut off but I did mine.

Edit: I looked it up. TSB 23-039-21. Cut off date is trucks built after 7/26/21.

It got me once too.

 

[Mattiusmaximus1216]

There is a TSB for this concern if your truck fits the criteria. Can’t remember the cut off but I did mine.

Edit: I looked it up. TSB 23-039-21. Cut off date is trucks built after 7/26/21.

It got me once too.

What does the TSB do?