7.3
pretty bad- Typical Repair Cost:
- No data
- Average Mileage:
- 63,200 miles
- Total Complaints:
- 6 complaints
Most common solutions:
- have rust cut out or replace affected panels (4 reports)
- not sure (2 reports)
This truck has never been driven in the winter. And is stored outside in a carport with plenty of air flow to prevent moisture damage. This truck is my baby, and looks new in every way. This is very poor design, Must be a void with a non ventilated area with moisture build up. Pissed thinking of going back to Ford.
- luckyone, Marquette, MI, US
Rear wheel wells rusted out with 60,000 miles...unreal.
Approx $2000 to fix.
- Chis S., Truxton, NY, US
WOW with 42,000 miles, one would figure it to be in great shape.....all is except the rear fender wells (over the tires)...Started out with a little bubble and now there are holes through the first skin.............I have seen more Dodge 1500 in the same condition.....NOT a happy camper.......
- Seymours S., Woodridge, NY, US
2003 dodge ram with rear box panels rusting from inside. Bubbles on both sides above the wheels. Not happy with the quality of the box with so little miles on it. Only repair solution it to cut out rust and replace with repair panel. Not happy with the problem!
- Chuck C., Eldred, PA, US
Chrysler built these trucks with a noise deading item between the outside panel and the inside panel. When this noise deading material gets wet, which it will, it causes the inside portion of the outside of the panel to start to rust. The truck is rusting from the inside out in other words (rusting out above rear wheels from inside panel out). The only way to repair is to replce the rear quarter panels. This material that is used shouldn't hold moisture, but it does. This is a factory defect.
- vman, Segeant Bluff, IA, US
Was doing maintenance on my vehicle and noticed the torsion bars and other suspension parts starting to rust.
- Rob C., Marion, IN, US