Three problems related to engine stall have been reported for the 2003 Dodge Ram 1500. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
While driving on the freeway at night the headlights, tail lights, blinkers, 4-ways, brake lights, and tail lights went out and when slowing down to pull over the engine stalled. The engine started back up to get to the side of the road and stalled again with no warning. The truck now stalls at all stop lights and stop signs and is not giving any codes. The truck now has a large draw and kills the battary shortly after turing the truck off. The truck is still in the shop and so far the fcm, pdc and some wiring has been replaced but the power draw persists and the engine stalling still persists. Researching the issue on the internet this is a comon problem on this vehicle and has been for quite some time. This is a very dangerous issue and needs to be addressed.
While driving came up to lights and the engine stalled had no steering and no brake put engine in park restarted and drove on this has happened numerous times in nd out of traffic. When pulling hard to the left or right the engine will begin to stall did this while truck was sitting in front yard. Had a tune up done and went away for a while but now it is starting up again.
The contact owns a 2003 Dodge Ram 1500. While driving between 30-50 mph, the engine suddenly stalled. The failure occurred on two occasions. The contact immediately took the vehicle to the dealer and they performed a diagnostic in an attempt to produce an error code. A code never appeared and the cause of the failure could not be determined. The contact took the vehicle to an independent repair shop and they were able to find similar failures in their database, but they did not make any repairs. He believes that the manufacturer should inspect the failure. The failure mileage was 16,585 and current mileage was 54,509. Updated 01/09/09. Updated 01/12/09.