New Recall Announced Today

[Nightram]

Hey Guys,

I just wanted to give you some information I found out today. DC is announcing this recall #E17, for 2003-2005 Ram Diesel with Automatic transmission. They are going to install the park engagemnet alarm like the '06's have, where if the vehicle is not in park and the door is open, the horn and lights will go off! That will be fun !

 

[Dieselnerd]

Yes, I saw that today too. The fix is supposed to take about 1 hour and involves a program change which is dodge speak for reflash. Put your vin number in here and you can get a description of what they will do.

http://www.dodge.com/webselfservice...recall&country=us&emailUrl=goToEmailForm('R')

 

[DaveK98]

Thank god for manual trannys...



So if a passanger opens the door to get out your truck will go nuts?

 

[ToddYoung]

I got an 06 and its real fun when that goes off and your in the truck. Just wait till it happens to you and just look at all the funny looks you get!

 

[Grizzly]

Thank god for manual trannys...



So if a passanger opens the door to get out your truck will go nuts?

Just another good reason for a 6 speed. :-laf

 

[bcpalmer]

Just don't have it done.

 

[testraub]

I'm thinking I'll skip this one until I'm ready to trade-in or sell the truck. Wonder if they will "just do it" if I take my truck into the dealer for something else though? I guess I'll have to tell them each time I go in "DON'T DO IT"!

 

[osiris]

yeah the horn honking thing is really annoying... i have done it a few times and at first i thought that i was hitting the horn with my arm or something

 

[makelemen]

Our dealer must need the work. They called my wife while I was at work today to inform me of the recall. If I bring it in I am sure that they will find all sorts of things wrong with a truck that has only 13k.

 

[nickleinonen]

Thank god for manual trannys...

Just another good reason for a 6 speed. :-laf

yep :-laf:-laf:-laf

 

[JThiessen]

It absolutley amazes me that they will do a recall for something like this, yet common issues such as steering boxes, death wobble, defrosters not working, dont justify a recall. Some bean counter yells about a lawsuit and see what happens.

 

[Matt400]

They can recall all they want

They won't get mine, I am my own back up authority.

 

[olznut]

Maybe just push the e brake enough to light up the dash to make it not do it?

 

[JonathanBurk]

More of a danger if you ask me... I opened the door to back into a space and I nearly fell out of the truck because the horn freaked me out so bad.



I wonder how long 'til someone slips under the truck and gets run over. Granted that's kind of Darwinesque, but I don't need no stupid alarm to remind me I'm backing up with a door open. Done it for years.



The stupid horn thing is like putting "Not for human consumption" on rat poison. If someone's that stupid... let 'em.

 

[RMalone]

Fist off, they WILL NOT get the opportunity to reflash my truck with this crap "fix". Afterall isn't this their "fix" for some auto-trannys slipping from park to reverse? Why not fix the problem instead of warning us that the problem just occured. I didn't realize they had the damn horn go berzerk!! IMO, as stated above, an unexpected blaring horn while backing up is more dangerous than the original problem. Simply foolish and a cheap way for D. C. to avoid their responsibility.

 

[WStephens]

Well they have had some trucks slilp out of park while idleing, a guy in Montana had his little girl in her car seat in the truck and he was out of the truck talking to a customer when it happened to him. The little girl was a little freaked out by the exprence but unhurt.

 

[RMalone]

And all that the "fix" would do is alert you to the fact that your truck just took off, and then only if you were within earshot. D. C. should fix the problem with the truck jumping into reverse. What will they think of next? Put a kill switch into the drivers seat so the truck dies if you get out? even while in park.

 

[TSpecht]

And to think, if everybody would just apply the parking brake and/or shut the engine down the problem could have been totally avoided in the first place...

 

[brods]

Can they demand to do the recall if you bring it in for some other warranty issue?



I have seen how the P indicator can light up and the shifter is not fully locked in park. If they address the mechanical issue with that I'd gladly bring it in. Just slapping on alarms, no.

 

[scootergmc]

Well, I got my recall notice in the mail today.



I really don't think it's a problem. I've never had my truck slip out of P. In fact, my habit is putting it in P and setting the brake... actually I do it while it's in N and then move to P.