Safety recall H46, Jan 2009, had it "inspected" and they said "Your truck is fine." 2013 the "Death Wobble" starts at about the 125k mileage point, and despite checking all front end, and after about 5 serious highway wobbles, my tie rod fractures on a 40 mph road where I was lucky only to only scrape a mailbox with no steering at all. I get it fixed, replace all the rubber mounts as well, and it takes about six months for the Death Rattle to come back! I only drove this on local roads after that as Dodge "never heard of this problem".

Tonight in 2015, my steering link assembly fractures just backing out of the driveway. I get on the internet and find out all about this problem, and the recalls, so I call Dodge and they tell me "your truck is not on our list of affected vehicles, but if you take it to a dealer we can make any repairs needed or at least give you an idea of what it will cost to repair."

This truck has a defectively designed front end which they know about, it almost killed me twice, what the hell do I do now? I do not want to drive this truck, what is my recourse ?

I have a 2006 Dodge Ram 2500 5.9L, recently the tie rod broke on the interstate which created a loss of control. Replaced the tires, steering stabilizer, tie rods, ball joints, sway bar bushings. Now I am at a stand still, the steering feels much tighter and I am not able to move the tie rods like before. Today going around 60mph on the interstate I drove over a pot hole and the death wobble began again. This time I didn't have to stop completely, just reduce my speed about 10mph. There is no play in anything under my truck, I don't know what to do.

When we bought the vehicle it was okay for a few thousand miles. Going to our grandsons baseball game up U.S. 23 by Detroit was the first death wobble incident. It was very scary. After that we had a couple more instances of the death wobble. We took it to our regular mechanic for an assessment and after some repair we thought it was ok. But the death wobble appeared several more times.

So off to the dealership we went with no satisfaction They said it was the tires, so 800 dollars later we were off again. Again the wobble After a call to Detroit it was suggested we take the truck back to the dealership. We did and they put on a "fix" of a recall kit. Ten miles from the dealership the death wobble occurred completely shaking off the fix. And we had it towed to the dealership they repaired it again and said it was good.

We then sold it to our niece, after assurance from the dealership it was safe!! On Interstate 80 just before Cleveland the wobble occurred, scaring them immensely. We had it towed back home had to refund their money and refinance the truck. The truck sat in our driveway for weeks because we were afraid to drive it.

Again a call to Detroit, they said take it to the dealership and they would "work with us". So they traded our lemon truck for a 2008 Ram 1500 costing an additional 10,000 dollars. Never, not once was a recall mentioned. We even had our salesman pull up " Dodge death wobble" on u tube. Still no mention of a recall or problems.

Nothing but lies,,,all in all we lost about $15,000. in refinancing, repairs, towing and tires we did not need. How sad that after all this time, Dodge is finally owning up to the problems with this vehicle

We were completely strapped financially by the costs trying to repair this vehicle and would like reimbursement for our costs.

My 2006 Dodge Ram 2500 quad cab has very low miles and has been very well taken care of. However I've had an issue since I bought it 3 years ago. It has an extended warranty and the dealership has replaced all the ball joints yet it continues to get the violent shaking "DEATH WOBBLE" at normal highway speeds. I actually don't drive over 60 because a slight bump in the road like an over pass transition will invoke this condition.

So I've had a lot of time to do a lot of research and there's a solution. Replace the steering linkages (tie rod and drag link) with the new upgraded style because the "y" type is garbage! Next install a steering box brace which attaches to both frame sides and controls the output shaft of the steering box via a heavy duty bearing. Dodge Chrysler Jeep needs to own up and pay for this upgrade before someone gets killed! This is a very dangerous condition for these vehicles.

Imagine you are driving down the fast lane of an interstate freeway and suddenly your trucks steering wheel starts beginning to oscillate, turning from side to side so violently that you think the truck has a very real chance of rolling over on its roof. The steering wheel follows the oscillation of the front wheels and begins to oscillate from side to side about 100 to 130 degrees with such force and violence that you are completely unable to hold on to it.

I am sure I don’t need to tell you that if you are doing seventy miles per hour in the fast lane of a busy interstate and cannot hold on to the steering wheel of your vehicle, you are an out of control bomb, a kamikaze pilot, with nothing left but prayer and dirty underwear. You are in the fast lane and there is no shoulder on the left where you can go and you are barreling down an interstate at nearly seventy miles per hour and you know the only way to regain control of your steering and prevent something from being torn off the steering mechanism is to stop immediately and as fast as you possibly can. You know from the violence of the vehicle's movement from side to side that if you do not do it quickly this vehicle will utterly destroy itself by shaking itself to pieces or flipping over on its roof. This was the position I found myself in and as I began to apply heavy brakes, I knew that there was traffic behind me that would probably not have time to stop. I decelerated rapidly to about 5 miles per hour before the violent shaking stopped and then I looked in my rear view mirror with horror to see another pickup bearing down upon me at great speed. A piece of open grassland appeared on the left of me and I swerved sharply off the road just in time to see the pickup truck, honking his horn, scream past my vehicle within inches and I knew that I could never trust my vehicle again.

As a former military helicopter pilot of twenty years service and three combat tours and I can assure you that I am a man who is not easily overwhelmed by machinery. I am very used to flying machines that vibrate, sometimes so badly you think they might tear themselves to pieces and I had never witnessed such an onset of violence from any craft. Fortunately, A shoulder appeared, just as the violence started and if it did not I would probably be writing this letter to you from intensive care, if indeed I was lucky enough to have made it there alive.