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Previous 60,000km post, approximately a year ago, can be found here:
Things have been pretty uneventful up until this past weekend.
Good:
- No service visits since the previous thread. Two HPL oil changes, both done by me.
- No squeaks or rattles
- Tailgate has been perfect since they adjusted it
- Still extremely impressed with the ride quality and comfort of the vehicle
Bad:
- Brakes are starting to pulse when applied at high speed. Front rotors are rotting from the inside out, TONS of pad material left, but I'm going to have to do a brake job. I'm a bit surprised at the poor corrosion resistance of the OE rotors.
- Infotainment apparently sometimes doesn't have audio. Screen works fine, reminds me very much of when the amp in my 2016 GC had a bad ground (nothing wrong with the amp). You can faintly hear the radio, but the selectors have no impact on the sound and you can't control the volume. This is fixed when you restart the vehicle. I've only had it happen to me once, which was the day before we left for vacation, but when I brought it up to my wife, she said it has happened to her a couple of times. Since it's out of warranty now, I'll be doing some checks myself to see if I can track down the cause.
- @The Critic cursed me with his exhaust manifold leak issue. We took the Jeep on vacation and when we came back, were informed by my eldest that the truck is "making an odd noise on startup". Neither he, nor my wife, could properly describe it. I cold started it yesterday, it's an exhaust leak, passenger side, stops after about 45 seconds or so, so I couldn't pin down exactly where it's coming from, as by the time I had slid under the vehicle and was trying to locate it, it stopped. Since it's out of warranty, this should be fun.
Looks like it's an updated part, and not expensive, but I expect the labour will be exciting.
In that vein:
I'm constantly surprised at how OEM's bugger up exhaust manifolds on trucks and SUV's. The F-series was notorious for them cracking and snapping studs, the DS RAM trucks would break the studs, the 4Runner would chew through manifolds and Toyota never released an updated part that addressed it...etc. You'd think that when they do a model update they'd address this, but apparently not
Updated picture with her summer rubber on from last year:
2019 RAM 1500 Sport update - 60,000Km
Previous thread can be found here: https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/2019-ram-1500-sport-update.328644/ Since then we've had a few minor issues, but nothing major. Truck has just over 60,000km on it now and gets daily driven by my wife. It's our choice for any sort of long trip due to...
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Things have been pretty uneventful up until this past weekend.
Good:
- No service visits since the previous thread. Two HPL oil changes, both done by me.
- No squeaks or rattles
- Tailgate has been perfect since they adjusted it
- Still extremely impressed with the ride quality and comfort of the vehicle
Bad:
- Brakes are starting to pulse when applied at high speed. Front rotors are rotting from the inside out, TONS of pad material left, but I'm going to have to do a brake job. I'm a bit surprised at the poor corrosion resistance of the OE rotors.
- Infotainment apparently sometimes doesn't have audio. Screen works fine, reminds me very much of when the amp in my 2016 GC had a bad ground (nothing wrong with the amp). You can faintly hear the radio, but the selectors have no impact on the sound and you can't control the volume. This is fixed when you restart the vehicle. I've only had it happen to me once, which was the day before we left for vacation, but when I brought it up to my wife, she said it has happened to her a couple of times. Since it's out of warranty now, I'll be doing some checks myself to see if I can track down the cause.
- @The Critic cursed me with his exhaust manifold leak issue. We took the Jeep on vacation and when we came back, were informed by my eldest that the truck is "making an odd noise on startup". Neither he, nor my wife, could properly describe it. I cold started it yesterday, it's an exhaust leak, passenger side, stops after about 45 seconds or so, so I couldn't pin down exactly where it's coming from, as by the time I had slid under the vehicle and was trying to locate it, it stopped. Since it's out of warranty, this should be fun.
Looks like it's an updated part, and not expensive, but I expect the labour will be exciting.
In that vein:
I'm constantly surprised at how OEM's bugger up exhaust manifolds on trucks and SUV's. The F-series was notorious for them cracking and snapping studs, the DS RAM trucks would break the studs, the 4Runner would chew through manifolds and Toyota never released an updated part that addressed it...etc. You'd think that when they do a model update they'd address this, but apparently not
Updated picture with her summer rubber on from last year:
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