NHTSA Complaint #10078734 — 2003 DODGE RAM 2500

FIRST TIME I WAS IN A PARKING LOTON MAY 23,04 , I BACKED OUT OF PARKING SPOT PUT IT IN DRIVE AND IT STALLED. STARTED IT UP AGAIN PUT IN DRIVE ENGINE SOUNDED RUFF BUT DID GO. GOT ONTO FREE-WAY AND COULD ONLY GET SPEED PU TO 50 WITH GAS PEDDEL TO FLOOR. A FEW MILES DOWN, THE ROAD TURNS TO TWO LANE AND THERE IS A STOP LIGHT. LIGHT WAS RED AS I GOT TO IT HAD TO SLOW BECAUSE OF A CAR IN FRONT OF ME, LIGHT CHANGED AS I GOT TO IT MY SPEED NOW ABOUT 30 THE CAR AHEAD OF TAKES OFF. WITH ME GAS PEDAL TO FKOOR COULD TELL IF ENGIN WAS RUNNING SO I LOOKED AT TAC IT SHOWED OVER 4000 RPM'S AND THEN SHOUT OUT LIKE A BULLET. BY THE TIME I COULD GET MY FOOT OFF THE GAS AND ON TO THE BREAKE MY TRUCK WAS DOING OVER 90 AND ALMOST HIT THE OTHER CAR TIME NO.3 WAS LEAVING A STORE STARTED TRUCK THE ENGIN SOUNDED RUFF BACKED UP OK, BUT IN DRIVE IT WENT AT SLOW SPEED OK, TURNED AT STOP LIGHT THEN WOULD NOT GET OVER 30 MPH IN A 45, DEALED SHIP WAS ONLY A A 1/2 MILE PULLED IN , AND MACHINES HAD JUST LEFT SO NO ONE COULD LOOK AT IT. SET APP. FOR TUS. JUNE 1 THEY PUT IT ON COMPUTER AND TEST DROVE IT AND FOUND NOTHING, THE SAME PROBLEM HAPPENED THAT AFTERNOON ONLY THIS TIME THE TRUCK WOULD NOT MOVE IN DRIVE AT ALL. THERE WAS TECH FROM DETROIT ON JUNE 15 DROVE IT FOR AN HOUR COULD NOT GET IT TO DO IT, BUT THAT AFTER NOON IT DID IT AGAIN. THE DEALER FINDLY DID TAKE IT IN ON JUNE 21 AND KEEP IT FOR A FEW DAYS ONLY AFTER THERENTED WITH A LAWSUIT. CHY CORP WOULD NOT DO ANYTHING. TO THIS DATE JUNE 24 THEY COULD NOT GET THE PROBLEM TO REQUIR WHILE THEY HAVE SO THEY WILL NOT DO ANYTHING. *AK