Parking Brake Related Problems of the 1997 Dodge Ram 2500

Table 1 shows one common parking brake related problems of the 1997 Dodge Ram 2500.

Table 1. Parking Brake related problems of Dodge Ram 2500

Problem Category Number of Problems
Parking Brake problems
2

Parking Brake problem #1

The contact owns a 1997 Dodge Ram 2500. The contact attempted to apply the parking brake, but the brake failed to engage. The regular brakes work, but the parking brake does not. The vehicle cannot be parked on an incline because it will roll. Dodge has not been notified. The current and failure mileages were 133,000.

Parking Brake problem #2

Emergency brake failure caused truck to roll backwards out of driveway through a board fence down a hill off of a 8 ft. Cliff landing on rear bending bumper down and shoving bed in the cab and landing inches from the river! dt.


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