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I bought a 2021 Ram Rebel, 5.7 etorque new from the dealer. I'll go with the good stuff first. It's a great looking truck, it's got plenty of power, and in the 22,000 miles I've driven it, the drivetrain has never given me even a hint of trouble. It's a great driving vehicle, both in the city and on the highway and it's wonderful on road trips. On road trips I usually drive 15 to 17 hours a day, and the truck is NEVER uncomfortable, it's really kind of a dream truck for road trips.
I thought I'd hate the start/stop feature, but I have to give Ram a ton of credit, it's soooo smooth that I hardly even notice it anymore. It's extremely fast to restart too, by the time I take my foot off the brake the engine is already running. It's quiet too. I can sit in traffic and hear the other cars around me as their starters turn to restart the car, but the Ram makes no such noises. It's quiet as a mouse thanks to the belt that re-starts it.
Now the bad.
My truck began shutting off for no reason while I was driving. I'd be cruising along around 5 MPH or so and the engine died, the truck slammed itself into park and engaged the emergency brake...leaving me in a very confusing WTF type moment. Thankfully it happened at low speeds in parking lots, but I was entirely lucky on that. The issue has apparently been fixed with a recall, it's not re-occured since it went back to the dealer for the issue.
My truck began leaking water into the cab, so much that the carpet was soaked and when I got it back from the dealer who fixed it, there was mold growing on my carpet.
The hood of my Rebel fills with water any time it rains, and as I drive around it sounds like there's a 50 gallon fish tank behind the dash board sloshing around as I drive and turn. It eventually drains, but it sounds like I'm driving a real piece of crap until it does. It's been to the dealer twice for the issue, and they've not been able to fix it.
Sometimes on cold wet mornings the brakes will moan like a sasquatch in heat as I back out of the driveway. My neighbors can all hear it, and I imagine they don't like it when I leave to go hunt or fish at 4 AM. The dealer said they coudn't replicate it, so there's nothing to fix...even though this a well known problem.
I got mine with the 12 inch screen because I thougth it would be very helpful with the GPS (my eyes aren't what they used to be). They didn't tell me that after a year the GPS functionality would be severely degraded unless I bought a subscription to Uconnect (I think that's who it's through, if not, the point stands that you need to start paying money after a year to keep using that GPS). Now instead of finding things the easy way, I have to manually type in the state, city, and street address in their entirety. The system offers no help in searching for anything...that sucks. If I try to use Waze with the 12 inch screen it only puts the map on HALF of the screen, completely defeating the purpose of the extra real estate.
Another issue with the screen is that to change many things you have to take your eyes off the road and start pushing buttons on it. Want to turn the seat heater down? You'll need to take your eyes off the road, look down, and find the right menu button, then once you get to that page, you'll have to find the seat heater icon and push it a few times until it goes off. There are a number of other functions that operate similarly...you must take your eyes off the road to change some of them.
Recently my 12 inch screen began to randomly turn off and not come back on for a while. It might stay broken for 4 or 5 restarts, then I'll get in to drive somewhere and it comes back on like there was never a problem.
One thing that makes me laugh (with irony) is that when I sold my 11 year old F150 to buy the Ram, I was soooo happy to see all the yellow warning lights on the dashboard leave my life. Then I buy the Ram, and the one I got has all kinds of features on it that provide the truck with autonomy to slam on the brakes (this was bought during COVID, so I had to take whatever I could find). This is a 4 wheel drive truck, designed to go off road, and if the sensors see tall grass, they slam on the brakes. If you are coming down a short, sharp hill...when you get to the bottom it slams on the brakes because it think's you're going to run into the ground. I can turn these things off...and I have...but when I turn them off, Ram puts a YELLOW WARNING LIGHT on my dash!
Gas mileage sucks, and you'll see that from the many posts here on that topic.
This isn't an exhaustive list of the problems I've had, but it's all I can recall off the top of my head. Before the truck was a year and a half old it had spent over a month in the shop.
I loved it when I got it, but now I feel like I'm just waiting for the next thing to break. Mine is just one of millions they make though. My brother in law bought a 2021 2500 version and he hasn't had the first bit of trouble with it. Luck of the draw, you never know what you'll get.
I thought I'd hate the start/stop feature, but I have to give Ram a ton of credit, it's soooo smooth that I hardly even notice it anymore. It's extremely fast to restart too, by the time I take my foot off the brake the engine is already running. It's quiet too. I can sit in traffic and hear the other cars around me as their starters turn to restart the car, but the Ram makes no such noises. It's quiet as a mouse thanks to the belt that re-starts it.
Now the bad.
My truck began shutting off for no reason while I was driving. I'd be cruising along around 5 MPH or so and the engine died, the truck slammed itself into park and engaged the emergency brake...leaving me in a very confusing WTF type moment. Thankfully it happened at low speeds in parking lots, but I was entirely lucky on that. The issue has apparently been fixed with a recall, it's not re-occured since it went back to the dealer for the issue.
My truck began leaking water into the cab, so much that the carpet was soaked and when I got it back from the dealer who fixed it, there was mold growing on my carpet.
The hood of my Rebel fills with water any time it rains, and as I drive around it sounds like there's a 50 gallon fish tank behind the dash board sloshing around as I drive and turn. It eventually drains, but it sounds like I'm driving a real piece of crap until it does. It's been to the dealer twice for the issue, and they've not been able to fix it.
Sometimes on cold wet mornings the brakes will moan like a sasquatch in heat as I back out of the driveway. My neighbors can all hear it, and I imagine they don't like it when I leave to go hunt or fish at 4 AM. The dealer said they coudn't replicate it, so there's nothing to fix...even though this a well known problem.
I got mine with the 12 inch screen because I thougth it would be very helpful with the GPS (my eyes aren't what they used to be). They didn't tell me that after a year the GPS functionality would be severely degraded unless I bought a subscription to Uconnect (I think that's who it's through, if not, the point stands that you need to start paying money after a year to keep using that GPS). Now instead of finding things the easy way, I have to manually type in the state, city, and street address in their entirety. The system offers no help in searching for anything...that sucks. If I try to use Waze with the 12 inch screen it only puts the map on HALF of the screen, completely defeating the purpose of the extra real estate.
Another issue with the screen is that to change many things you have to take your eyes off the road and start pushing buttons on it. Want to turn the seat heater down? You'll need to take your eyes off the road, look down, and find the right menu button, then once you get to that page, you'll have to find the seat heater icon and push it a few times until it goes off. There are a number of other functions that operate similarly...you must take your eyes off the road to change some of them.
Recently my 12 inch screen began to randomly turn off and not come back on for a while. It might stay broken for 4 or 5 restarts, then I'll get in to drive somewhere and it comes back on like there was never a problem.
One thing that makes me laugh (with irony) is that when I sold my 11 year old F150 to buy the Ram, I was soooo happy to see all the yellow warning lights on the dashboard leave my life. Then I buy the Ram, and the one I got has all kinds of features on it that provide the truck with autonomy to slam on the brakes (this was bought during COVID, so I had to take whatever I could find). This is a 4 wheel drive truck, designed to go off road, and if the sensors see tall grass, they slam on the brakes. If you are coming down a short, sharp hill...when you get to the bottom it slams on the brakes because it think's you're going to run into the ground. I can turn these things off...and I have...but when I turn them off, Ram puts a YELLOW WARNING LIGHT on my dash!
Gas mileage sucks, and you'll see that from the many posts here on that topic.
This isn't an exhaustive list of the problems I've had, but it's all I can recall off the top of my head. Before the truck was a year and a half old it had spent over a month in the shop.
I loved it when I got it, but now I feel like I'm just waiting for the next thing to break. Mine is just one of millions they make though. My brother in law bought a 2021 2500 version and he hasn't had the first bit of trouble with it. Luck of the draw, you never know what you'll get.
