2025 1500 Ram SST Issues
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Update: I had to drop my truck off at the dealership again today after having it for 24 hours because it's out of coolant again.
Any signs of coolant leaking out onto the ground?
Does the engine have a dipstick? If yes, do you see coolant mixed in the engine oil?
Does the engine have a dipstick? If yes, do you see coolant mixed in the engine oil?
Stellantis still uses the FCA US LLC labeling in their business dealings for their North American operations. Their current media press releases and most of the CDJR corporate brand web pages still use the FCA byline term.
No the engine doesn't have a dipstick. It's the auxiliary coolant line so it doesn't cool the block or engine. It cools the turbos and the intercooler. I think there is an issue with the intercooler and it's ingesting coolant. The system is called low temp and only holds 4 quarts.
Yours appears to have 1 coolant tank. The Hurricane has 2
UPDATE: The dealership drove it 18 miles 3 hours ago but they haven't called with any updates yet. I have also called Ram corporate 3 times and have not heard from my case manager yet. It's just radio silence.
I got an update from corporate that they hope to have the issue diagnosed Monday, February 3rd. That will be 45 Days broken from 19 December with less than 24 hours of use between 28-29 January.
Shhhh, I was trying to give them plausible deniability...
That's because I only included the description of the LT part of the system.
If you need the entire document, fine.
I hope these are more to your liking.
Four radiators, two expansion tanks, more hoses. I love it. I don't see a single additional point of failure. What could go wrong?
Four radiators, two expansion tanks, more hoses. I love it.
I don't see a single additional point of failure.
What could go wrong?
Hah.
It's a Stellantis product, so the answer is a whole bunch.
-Early cars are infamous for radiator leaks/seep near the top driver side.
-The various lines you mentioned are infamous for the plastic housings and plastic air bleed screws for cracking/leaking.
-The LT cooling system has an electric pump in it, and there is a relay that feeds power to that pump. The relay is famous for failing / sticking, so you lose the ability to get full power from your car, usually without a CEL to let you know that the circuit isn't getting power.
-Cylinder head gaskets can weep coolant into the combustion chambers, leading to cold start misfires that Stellantis had to release a TSB to inform dealer techs what to look for when they can't find a cause for the random misfire, and to get them to stop replacing the expensive Multi-Air unit unnecessarily.
That's just off the top of my head for the I-4 Giulia's and Stelvio's.
That doesn't include the 500 hp V-6 motors.
Hoping we see all this tech in the Wranglers soon! Can't wait to take this hours into the UT backcountry with no cell service. It'll be great.
Got my truck back after 46 days of being broken. It was a 3 hour, $327.89 repair. They ordered the wrong water pump, then after they installed the correct one forgot to burp the system so I brought it back less than 24 hours later for an empty coolant tank again. It took them 5 days after that to diagnose the issue as an air bubble. Incompetent morons. Anyway my arbitration is 14 days away for lemon law and breach of warranty.
When looking at all of the problems (cooling system, ABS, Driver Assist) that you've had in the past 46 days of 'brokenness'... what percentage do you estimate have been issues attributable to the truck (e.g. the failed water pump), and what percentage have been issues attributable to the dealership (e.g. ordering the wrong pump, failing to install it properly)?
I mean the truck broke it should have taken about a week to repair. The rest of it was definitely the dealerships inability to get the right parts and follow the right procedures for the repairs that stretched out the repair time.
UPDATE: Ram submitted their evidence for the case. They are lying about the dates and timelines for my truck trying to get out of lemon lawing my truck. They claim I brought it in December 24th and it was fixed January 28th with no additional issues. I have submitted proof that after I took it there December 23rd it wasn't moved again until their first repair attempt January 16th. Also, if I goty truck back in January, why was Ram corporate trying to figure out when I would get my truck back in February?
Ram is lying and dishonest about this situation. I can't believe the lengths they are going through to try and prevent the truck from being a lemon
Ram is lying and dishonest about this situation. I can't believe the lengths they are going through to try and prevent the truck from being a lemon
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