NHTSA Complaint #10786215 — 2012 DODGE RAM 2500

PRIOR TO EPA EMISSIONS RECALL I WOULD ACHIEVE DIESEL FUEL EFFICIENCIES AS HIGH AS 21 MPG HIGHWAY, PULLING A 18 FOOT TRAILER AT A 1 HOUR DURATION. THE CITY MPG AVERAGED TO 13-15 MPG, SINCE THE EMISSIONS RECALL UPDATE MADE ON THIS VEHICLE, MPG HAS AVERAGED BETWEEN 10-13 MPG ON HIGHWAY WITH NO LOAD/NO TRAILER AND AVERAGES BETWEEN 9-11 MPG IN CITY. THESE BENCHMARKS HAVE BEEN CONSISTENTLY COMPARED AND ROAD CONDITIONS HAVE BEEN SAME. TO ADD TO THIS ISSUE, THERE HAS BEEN A LOSS OF POWER THAT HAS CAUSED UNEXPECTED HESITATION IN A NUMBER OF INSTANCES. SEVERAL TIMES I WAS PUT IN HARMS WAY AS CROSSING CITY DIVIDED HIGHWAY, CROSSING STREETS AND/OR DIVIDING HIGHWAYS WHERE THAT MULTI-DIRECTIONAL TRAFFIC LIGHTS ARE NOT ALWAYS PRESENT. TO FURTHER EXPLAIN, REALIZING THE POWER PICKUP WAS NOT PRESENT AND TURBO DID NOT SEEM TO BE 'SPUN UP' EVEN THOUGH ACCELERATION WAS INCREASED DRAMATICALLY. NOTE, TO HELP TO POSSIBLY REMEDIATE THESE POTENTIAL ACCIDENT OCCURRENCES, I MUST POWER BRAKE AND INCREASE ENGINE RPM'S TO HELP BRING THE VEHICLE TO A POWER LEVEL TO REDUCE THE RISK OF POWER LATENCY. THIS SOMETIMES HELPS BUT NOT ALWAYS BECAUSE POWER IMPOTENCY SEEMS TO BE UNPREDICTABLE AT TIMES.