12 problems related to gasoline engine have been reported for the 1996 Dodge RAM. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
While driving vehicle locked up, and consumer lost control of vehicle, causing a major crash, which resulted in vehicle totaled, and 1 fatality. No one determined the cause of the crash.
No compression in the #6 cylinder may have caused the vehicle to loose power when going up grades.
Owner was driving down the highway and the engine had fire coming from it.
The vehicle was in motion and the vehicle caught on fire. Please describe in more details.
Continuous engine hesitation, causing accident/injury.
Engine running rough, idle fast.
Within the first 1000 feet of driving engine is very sluggish, usually after vehicle has sat overnight. (qcaw).
On seven occasions consumer was driving and truck locked up(cut off) . Tt.
Engine fire.
I am a mechanic and have talked to other mechanics about my problem. The motor in my truck is 3 years old and is rusting from the inside out. I am told that Chrysler has had previous problems like this for many years. I know that many other people like me are having to fix there problems out of our own pockets. My problem is only fixed temporaly it can not be fixed. The next solution would be a new motor . I feel that this is a problem that Chrysler should attend to.
While idling, truck caught on fire ,cause unknown. Left arm and leg were burnt. Please describe details.
No summary listed for above vehicle.