Ball Joint problems of the 2005 Dodge Ram 2500

Driving on the highway at 60 mph suddenly my front tires started bouncing up and down in opposed ruth's. Scared the life out of my wife and me ! I receive d in the mail a notice of a recall on my tierod ball joints and went to cook Chrysler dealership on rt 40 aberdeen MD. They said they cannot get the parts ! they have a whole list of people who have the same problem !! whats going on ? its a recall . I would like an answer, but more, I want parts ! I will be contacting the attorney general. Sincerely, victor cosentino 443-740-5291.

While backing out of a typical driveway, the left tie rod suddenly failed (described by our mechanic as 'sheared off at the pivot connection/knuckle'. ) the tie rod had been replaced, as part of "updated front tie rod kit", along with steering damper, pitman arm and all ball joints in August of 2010 (91382 miles on vehicle at that time) as the solution to severe 'death wobble. ' it should also be noted that all ball joints had already suffered sever wear and required replacement in March of 2011, with about 126223 miles on the truck.

I just purchased my used 2005 Dodge Ram 2500 and decided to take it on a 1500 mile round trip to test it out. At speeds over 55 mph, I experienced the death wobble whenever I would hit uneven pavement. My conservative estimate is that it happened no less than 50 times during the trip. It was very scary and dangerous as many times I was traveling 70 mph with semis right beside me. The Dodge dealer quoted me over $1200 to replace the steering dampener as well as the ball joints, with no guarantee that it would even fix the problem. This could have very easily caused a death if someone less experienced than myself was driving. I am very surprised that Dodge has not intervened with this obvious design flaw as it could very well cause serious injury including death.

2005 Dodge Ram 2500. Has death shake. Steering box stabalizer, duel steering stabalizer, rancho rs 9000 shocks, ball joints allignment radiouse arm bushing, and complete front end checked by respectable ase mechanic. I bought a 2500 truck for hauling trailer, plus just the heavy duty aspect of the pickup. I cant drive over 70mph without worrying. Evan worse when pulling a trailer. Dodge needs to do something about this. I ask a Dodge dealer about it and they act stupid, like they never heard of it. The least that Dodge could do is send a bullatin to Dodge dealers on how to fix it a, but I think its a major expensive design flaw, otherise Dodge would of corrected this dangerouse problem years ago. $1900 worth of part and labor later, and still no fix. This is major b. S. This has happened maybe 15 times in the last year and a half I have owned the truck. Would have been alot more if I didnt have to babysit the truck so bad. Its prettuy bad when you cant go over 50mph with a loaded car trailer being pulled by a 2500 pickup and have to wory about loosing control so easaly. Someone please do something about this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

'death wobble': severe shaking of the front suspension. Happened at speeds over 45 mph, usually after hitting small bumps or irregular road surfaces. Several (6-8) episodes over 1 month period. Required decrease of speed from highway speeds to less than 30 mph or even full stop to end episode. In one particular episode (8/11/10)was towing up an incline on a two lane highway was forced to slow from 65 mph to 25mph while trying to move onto narrow shoulder to avoid danger with other traffic behind us. Despite no noted worn out suspension components (inspected by independent and dealer mechanics, some tie rod wear noted only) repair involved replacing steering components, pitman arm, tie rods & ball joints. Dealer retained old parts.

The contact owns a 2005 Dodge Ram 2500. The contact stated that when driving 50 mph and above, he would hear a grinding noise from the vehicle. The vehicle was inspected by a dealer and they advised him to replace the front ball joints. The vehicle was repaired once before and the failure recurred within 60,000 miles. The manufacturer was not contacted to report the failure and the vehicle was not further repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 129,000. The VIN was unavailable.

My Dodge Ram 2500 truck has a violent death wobble issue. At freeway speeds when hitting an uneven bump in the pavement the truck goes into a sustaining death wobble type motion in the front end. It is extremely scary, and quite dangerous. The truck is completely out of control and must be slowed to approximately 30 mph for the wobble to stop. I've taken my truck to the Dodge dealer several times and they cannot find the problem. I've replaced everything, the axle, steering dampener 3 times, ball joints, alignment adjustments, new tires. The problem goes away for a short time but then always returns. I'm afraid to drive my truck on the freeway and my kids are afraid to drive in my truck period. When it happens it's very wild and scary. All the traffic around me slows down and swerves to get away from my truck. It's not only dangerous and scary, but embarrassing too. I don't know what to do. I've tried everything and nothing is working. Dodge is pretty much useless. They turned their back on me since all the components check out fine. They said there's nothing that they can do. I need a resolution for this problem.