Front Suspension problems of the 1999 Dodge Ram 1500

Bolt attaching lower shock mount to lower a-arm has to great a threaded length causing the threads to bear on the lower a-arm, causing the threads to be ground down and the hole in the a-arm through which the bolt passes to be fretted and enlarged excessively. The wear of the a-arm could result in cracking of the a-arm due to fatigue. Wear of the bolt threads could cause excessive bending of the bolt and premature failure of the bolt causing loss of control.

The truck continuously pulls to the right above fifty (50) miles an hour. After two separate attempts to correct the alignment, the truck was returned to the original place of purchase for repair where I was told by the service advisor ( tracy krumpleman) that because my truck was lowered it won't be guaranteed to hold an alignment. I then stated that the truck was sold to me with the aforementioned suspension modification from the same dealership that he is now working for , and the service advisor ignores this fact and restates that the truck won't hold an alignment because it's been lowered.

Vehicle rockes back and forth at highway speeds, upon hitting uneven pavement, like bad shocks. Dealer says they can't feel it, my wife won't drive the truck. Dealer contacted Dodge. Dodge says there is not a problem. I have talked to another Dodge owner, that traded his Dodge off at 4500 miles because of the way it handled. Which was similar to the way mine does, but his was a 2500. Dealer said they could fix the problem by putting heavy duty shocks on this vehicle, but was told they couldn't get shocks to fit this new truck. Why have to put after market shocks on a brand new truck? when driving this truck in a tight corner, it feels like it is going to throw you off the road. I am at this time in the proccess of arbitration for other problems, so Dodge will say I am just causing problems but the handling I belive is a safety concern, that Dodge is not addressing.

While driving the vehicle wanders between the lines in the highway. The front track is out. The consumer took the vehicle to be aligned however that has not remedied the problem. Nlm.

Upon purchasing the vehicle it pulled to the right. I took the vehicle back to the dealer two times for alignment issues and it was out of alingment both times and during the second visit I was told that the vehicle was going to pull do to the way the roads are built. While changing a flat I notices that the upper arm on the vehicle was rusting at the weld. I took the vehicle to the dealer and they said there was nothing wrong with the vehicles a arm even with the evidence of the weld rusting and a visible crack which can be verified by sliding a thread of string through it.