Hey every body i need ne and all major help here. I have a 2001 Dodge Ram 1500, it has a 5.9 liter motor, 4WD, Sport and Off-Road Packages, was in perfect condition, and not even 100,000 miles on it. Well on 1:30 A.M. Monday morning June 14 i was staying at my dads for the night. well at 1:30 he woke up to a horn blaring, so he got up to check what it was and he saw my truck with all the lights on with flames coming out from underneath the box of my truck (and outta the wheel wells). well by the time he ran down stairs told me and i ran back up stairs the cab was completely in flames and in seconds after that the gas tank blew up. The only thing we can figure out (and what the fire chief said) is that it was a short in sum wire in or by the tank. Now i'm try'n to go after dodge to get them to replace my truck becuz that should have NEVER happened, i have no money to buy a new truck, to help sum how prevent it happening to sumone else and it was my only vehicle. I have seen a few other cases where the same truck did the same thing to some other people and in one case there was an injury. i just need help trying to find out if there is ne one else that this happened to and if there is if i could get all the details to help me go against dodge with it. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!


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Try lemon law?

 

i can't i had the truck about a year

 

That's why you're supposed to have insurance.

 

i did but jus liability and they wont cover it

 

Well yr sol than!

 

well like i said i'm tryn to go after dodge to at least get sum reimbursement cuz no i owe $15,000 on a pile of burnt metal. It was my only vehicle i don't have money to go buy another truck and that shouldn't of happened specialy since that thing was 100% stock

 

You want us to help you sue the company that built our trucks? Unless you can substantiate that this is indeed a common problem with these vehicles I don't think you have a snowball's chance in...well, you know. While most of us know about some of the weaknesses these trucks have (like transmissions or dashes) I have seen nothing here or anywhere else about a potential for vehicle fires nor have I seen anything in the many service bulletins that would indicate such a problem. In fact, if there were such a problem it would have been the subject of a recall since it obviously deals with safety. On a 9 year old truck, even with low mileage, you'll have a difficult if not impossible time trying to prove that the fire started as the result of a manufacturing defect and not due to some other unrelated issue like unforeseeable failure of a component or something related to maintenance, operation or an owner modification. Good luck, but you will likely need an attorney to pursue this and he's probably going to tell you pretty much what I just did.

How is it you owe that much on the truck and the bank didn't require you to have full coverage insurance? You screwed up big time. Don't be looking for Chrysler to pay for your stupidity.

 

well i know it duzn't sound good or ne thing but believe it or not i have found other cases where that has happened. in fact one was a guy was driving his and then the motor quit and when that happened the back half his truck was on fire and then the cab was to before he was even really out. plus i have found a few recalls for the truck that create vehicle fires.

 

Vehicle fires are not uncommon. They happen for a variety of reasons. Few of them are related to manufacturing defects, though. I've done a lot of research on 2nd gen RAMS and saw nothing even hinting at a problem with fires. If you have a link to something other than anecdotal evidence it would be nice of you to share it. Make sure it is specifically related to these trucks.