Owner-reported complaints naming the transmission system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming the automatic or manual transmission, including shifting behaviour, shudder, slipping and transmission control modules. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1995 Dodge Ram 3500 submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 17 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
WHILE DRIVING 35 MPH THE FUEL LINE THAT WAS CONNECTED TO THE TRANSMISSION FAILED. VEHICLE LOST POWER AND BEGAN TO ROLL BACKWARDS TOWARD ONCOMING TRAFFIC. CONSUMER STATED WHEN ATTEMPTING TO APPLY THE BRAKES THEY MALFUNCTIONED BECAUSE TRANSMISSION FLUID LEAKED ONTO THEM. *AK
CONSUMER WAS GOING UP A HILL AND TRANSMISSION HOSE LINE BLEW OUT. HAD VEHICLE TOWED TO A DEALER, WHO TOLD HIM THAT THERE WAS A RECALL ON THE TRANSMISSION HOSE LINE. CONSUMER STATED VEHICLE LOST ALL TRANSMISSION FLUID, MAKING VEHICLE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO STEER.*AK
TRANSMISSION DIDN'T SHIFT INTO GEAR. VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED BY THE DEALER. *AK
THE VEHICLE IS EXPERIENCED THE SAME DEFECT WITH THE AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION COOLING LINES AS STATED IN RECALL 97 V 084 000, BUT THE CONSUMER VEHICLE WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE RECALL DUE TO VIN. *NLM
CONSUMER WAS TRAVELING UPHILL AT APPROXIMATELY 65 MPH WHEN VEHICLE SUDDENLY LOST 5TH GEAR, AND BEGAN LOSING SPEED. CONSUMER STATED THAT THERE WAS A NUT THAT HELD TRANSMISSION IN 5TH GEAR, BUT THIS NUT HAD FALLEN OFF. PLEASE PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/ATTACHMENTS.*AK
THE DODGE MASON DUMP TRUCK BECAME ENGULFED IN FLAMES WHILE ENGAGED IN SNOW PLOWING OPERATION, CONSUMER BELIEVES THIS FIRE WAS DIRECTLY RELATED TO RECALL 99V-115 FOR THE CLUTCH ASSEMBLY THEREFORE THE CONSUMER REQUEST REIMBURSEMENT. NLM
THERE IS A FITTING THAT IS MADE OF PLASTIC IN THE TRANSMISSION COOLING LINES THAT MELTS, AND CAUSES A LOSS OF TRANSMISSION FLUID. DEALER HAD TO REPLACE COOLING LINES AND FITTINGS. *AK
WAS GOING UP A HILL AND PULLING A TRAILER, TRANSMISSION GOT STUCK IN 5TH GEAR AND WOULDN'T COME OUT. PULLED OFF THE ROAD, TURNED ENGINE OFF, GOT IT OUT OF GEAR, AND CONTINUED. IT GETS STUCK INTERMITTENTLY IN 5TH GEAR. *AK
TRANSMISSION BEGAN TO FAIL AT 60,000 MILES, TOOK TO DEALER SAID NEED TO ADJUST BANDS, CONTINUED TO SLIP, TOOK BACK TO DEAL, THEY SAID THEY ADJUSTED BANDS, CHANGED TRANSMISSION FLUID, AND COULD NOT FIND A PROBLEM, AFTER TRUCK REACH 77,000 MILES, DEAL SAID I NEEDED NEW TRANSMISSION @ $5000.00. *AK
AT 30,000 MILES THE HYDRAULIC CLUTCH LINE RUPTURED, CAUSING FUEL TO LEAK UNTO THE EXHAUST WHICH COULD RESULT IN A FIRE. PLEASE GIVE ANY FURTHER DETAILS. *AK
BROUGHT VEHICLE IN ONCE FOR RECALL ON TRANSMISSION COOLING LINES, THAN HAD TO BRING IT BACK IN FOR THE SAME PROBLEM. THEN THE VEHICLE THAN BROKE ON THE HIGHWAY WHILE GOING AT 55MPH IN CRUISE CONTROL. THE VEHICLE'S TRANSMISSION JUST WENT TO NEUTRAL AND NEVER WENT INTO GEAR AGAIN. I HAD TO GET OUT OF THE VEHICLE AND PUSH IT OF THE INTERSTATE.
ERRATIC SHIFTING. *AK
PURCHASED TRUCK NEW, WHEN APPLYING THE BRAKES, TRUCK PULLS A SIDE, SOMETIMES IT IS A DIFFERENT SIDE; ALSO, TRANSMISSION MAKES NOISE, JERKS AND LOCKS IN PARK. *AK
THROTTLE STUCK AT 65 MPH.
ON NINE OCCASIONS THE TRAINMISSION WAS REPAIRED UNDER WARRANTY FOR SEVENTH TIME THE TRANSMISSION NEED TO REPLACED . PLEASE DESCRIBE .*AK
THE VEHICLE WAS IN THE PARKED POSITION AND THE VEHICLE JUMPED OUT OF GEAR. *AK
VEHICLE'S POWER TRAIN TRANSMISSION RUPTURED, VEHICLE IS MOSTLY DRIVEN OFF ROAD. *AK
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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