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 2001 Dodge Ram 3500 submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 9 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
NV5600 6 SPEED TRANSMISSION HAS SEVERE GEAR CLASH IN THIRD AND FOURTH GEARS. WILL NOT DOWN SHIFT INTO THIRD GEAR WITH GEAR GRINDING. TROUBLE STARTED ABOUT 1 MONTH AGO, AT 92, 000 MILES. DEALER TELLS ME THAT PARTS ARE NOT AVAILABLE TO REPAIR AND THEY ARE NOT SURE IF DODGE IS HAVING A PROBLEM. TSB 21-009-01 INDICATES DODGE KNEW OF PROBLEMS IN 01, BUT HAVE NOT DONE MUCH SINCE THEN. *NM
TRANSMISSION FAILED TO GO INTO PARK, EVEN THOUGH THE COLUMN SHIFTER SELECTOR WAS INDICATING THAT THE TRANSMISSION WAS IN PARK. TRANSMISSION WAS IN REVERSE, WHILE THE COLUMN INDICATED PARK. *JB
CONSUMER WAS ABLE TO START THE VEHICLE AND SHIFT THE GEAR WITHOUT APPLYING THE BRAKES. DEALER WAS NOTIFIED. DEALER INFORMED CONSUMER THAT WAS THE NORMAL CHARACTERISTIC OF THAT VEHICLE. *AK
CONSUMER COMPLAINED THAT WHILE DRIVING AT 45 MPH AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION LOCKED UP IN THE THIRD GEAR, TOOK VEHICLE TO AN INDEPENDENT REPAIR SHOP, AND TECHNICIAN DETERMINED THAT OVERDRIVE BEARING WAS PUT IN BACKWARD. *AK
TRANSMISSION IN MY VEHICLE HAD TO BE REBUILT. THE MECHANIC STATED 2ND GEAR WAS BURNT OUT AND THE TRANSMISSION WAS SHOT. HAD TO CHANGE TORQUE CONVERTER AND BANDS. THE MECHANIC STATED THE HOLES IN THE TRNASMISSION WERE TO SAMLL AND WOULD NOT LET FLUID FLOW FREELY AND KEEP THE TRANSMISSION COOL. THEREFORE THE TRANSMISSION HAD TO BE REPLACED. THE FUEL PUMP HAS ALSO BEEN REPLACED TWICE ON THIS VEHICLE AND IT IS ONLY 3 YEARS OLD. *AK
THERE IS A GRINDING NOISE IN THE STANDARD 6 SPEED TRANSMISSION THAT GETS WORSE WHEN IT IS IN THE REVERSE GEAR. THIS COULD RESULT IN TRANSMISSION GOING OUT AT ANYTIME. THE CAUSE OF THE NOISE WAS UNDETERMINED. *AK *SCC *JB
WHILE DRIVING THE VEHICLE TRANSMISSION WOULD NOT SHIFT PROPERLY. IT WAS LATER DETERMINED THAT SWITCHES IN THE TRANSMISSION NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. *AK *NLM
WHILE DRIVING AT ANY SPEED UP HILL AND NO WARNING TRANSMISSION WILL DECELERATE EVEN WHEN FOOT IS ON THE ACCELERATOR, AND IT WILL BE HARD FOR THE CONSUMER TO CONTROL THE VEHICLE. DEALER NOTIFIED.*AK
WHEN PULLING A TRAILER AND GOING UPHILL TRANSMISSION SHIFTS DOWN. DEALER REPLACED TRANSMISSION UNDER WARRANTY, DID NOT REMEDY THE PROBLEM.*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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