bad handling

[EXSTROKER]

on curvy mountain roads my truck is a hand full to drive

i don't know if is due to the new rack n pinion,,,

or what. . am i the only one with this prolb

 

[RankRam]

This is the first complaint of this kind that I have heard of.



Have you tried adjusting tire air pressures?

 

[EXSTROKER]

yes,+aliginement

all is fine thay say.

 

[yogibear]

Please explain "a handful to drive". Its a trk. , should be a handful. Mine drives as well as my 300M, if not better.



Larry

 

[CATCRACKER]

compare to furd and chebby mine handles like a corvette! this is a main reason for the motor trend truck of the year award! you must have got a bad one? everyone else i talk too can't believe how well they handle including choker owners and chubbies to.

 

[lawdog]

If you have a 2003 2x4 with rack and pinion steering, I can feel with you. The wife has a 2002 Durango with R&P and it is sooootouchy, i am all over the road for a while until I am used to the tight steering. .

 

[EXSTROKER]

To define is hard it does not track it is all over the road

next to walls is just plain scarry...

even on stright roads it is just hard to

follow a line

 

[yogibear]

Just set back in seat, and let it go down the road, if, or when you have to correct it, do it verrry eaaasyy. Like Lawdog said, its very easy to over steer, when you get used to it, you will like it.

 

[EXSTROKER]

I hope it is not driver error. .

but hay what do you expect from so many years

of driving the f---

 

[Casey Balvert]

I initially found myself oversteering the new truck. I was used to my 97. Took a few miles to get comfortable with it. Now it is fine. Handles like a dream.



Casey

 

[Prairie Dog]

We don't have rack and pinion on the heavy-duty Ram's but I suggest you check your steering gear for slop. Mine was mis-adjusted and as you say, it was a hand full. I found myself having to constantly correct and over correct going down the freeway. Adjusting the preload in the steering gear to spec solved the problem.

 

[Casey Balvert]

The two wheel drive trucks have rack and pinion steering.



Casey

 

[ntenna]

And I agree with Casey, the 2 x 4 duallys (with rack and pinion) drive more like a sports car than a truck. The rack and pinion steering on ours is like the littlest bear on the last bowl of porridge... "not too slow, not too quick, but just right!"

 

[JDalton]

After test driving all three US HD makes I must say the Dodge is outstanding when it comes to handling. Now if you want a hand full try the truck I am about to get rid of, a %oyota %undra.

 

[loncray]

Steering

This is my first owned pickup, but I drove various vehicles in the Army, including an old Dodge pickup, Chevy Pickup & Blazer CUCV's, and HMWVV's. My Ram handles better'n any of them, and is almost as good as the Integra that was my last vehicle. If it weren't for the three tons of steel and all that length, I'd say it was just as much a sports car as the Integra. I just get a Saturn V in the back to go really fast!