Looks like you or someone else likes to drive with their foot on the brake pedal all the time. Hookup a buzzer to the pedal someone will go nuts.

 

Here's an update. Just picked up my truck again.

Leased it in May of 05 now has 15400 miles on it.
3sets of front pads
2 sets of rotors
2 set of calipers
2 set of drums
5 wheel cylinders
5 set of rear brakes

will not cover anything dealer said the truck is being abused. It's only a little 6 cyl. nothing has even been it the bed yet. They said it's normal wear and tear. They also said no other trucks have had a problem, so you would think maybe it's this truck and something is wrong with it.
All most spent 2,000.00 on it. I could do it myself if the parts were available in the store.

 

I still believe if not by you someone else is driving your truck. Those brake components were destroyed by heat caused by the brakes being partially applied for long periods of time. To have them replaced so many times, you would think if it was the braking system the cause would have come to light by now.

Does anyone drive the truck who uses their left foot for braking? Does the truck get driven with the parking brake partially set. Do you have any teenage drivers? How much tread is left on tires? I was a teenager driver forty or so years ago. I remember my dad trying to figure out how come the transmission had gone bad and I never did tell him, but thats a long story. Personally I belive it is caused by one or more person's bad driving habits. My two cents. Sorry

 

Ya for sure! The dealer is raping (for a lack of better word) you. I tookmy calipers and pads and drums and EVERYTHING apart about two weeks ago now, and I have 4700 miles on it, and NOTHING like that!!!

And hell, I brake rather hard as well!!!

 

Yeah someone is a left foot driver! Damm I know I onl have 2500 on my truck but I barley even get brake dust on the rims and I tow every weekend. Those shoes/pads look burnt with those pot makes in them. 6 cly or not at high speeds you can still melt brakes. They look like shoes I had on a 67 dodge coronet with 4 drum brakes in traffic once they were smoking, when I pulled the wheel all the shoe material were totally melted. If you are not doing it to your truck someone has to be. Anyway doesnt warranty cover 12,000 miles? My fathers RAM had a caliper problem he had 14K on it they replaced everything, but his truck was 100% not abused.

How did the pistons get damaged? When they removed them? I never seen pistons so beat up and I did hundreds of brake jobs when I was in college working at Sears. Only one time did I see pads fused with the pistons in a 80s car (think was a grand-am) that always sat out in the salt of Buffalo NY. We even ruied the wheels getting them off everything was so rusted, not what you would see on a 05.

 

maxmax, after the melted clutch plate problem on my father's 1983 Rampage I adamantly denied any wrong doing on my part. To this day he knows I destroyed the transmission and I know from here to eternity what reving up in neutral and slamming into drive will do to an automatic! I assume by your statement that you discovered something to this effect also.

On a side note, I haven't seen another silver Rampage with a fake factory shaker hood and "Rampage 2.2" decals in probably 15 years.....if he still has that thing I want it.

 

wow i have had my dak for little over a year now and 21000 miles on it. brakes still work fine there is no shaking or wobbling coming to a dead stop from high speeds. this looks like the parking brake is dragging on the cyl. prematurely wearing the snot out of them.

 

Just a couple of points.
1. Yes i do left foot drive
2. I only drive it.
3. I have had a lot of different trucks and cars before
4.I also have a 02 f250 bought new finally changed the brakes thats after 5 seasons of landscaping and snowplowing 33,000mi.
5. i don't use the dakota for work
6.I leased a 02 dakota before this one so when the lease was up i went to the 05. The 02 had the 4.7 in it, changed the brakes only once.

 

I know full well the out come of dropping it in gear, but my story is a little different. I was driving down a county road under repair at various spots, with some of my friends riding along and this is always a disaster waiting to happen in those days. Well the first big red safety cone spotted in the middle of the road was just asking to be driven over. It maybe soft plastic, but when you hit it at over 40 mph and it goes under the vehicle look out. It grabbed the transmission shifting linkage and put the vehicle in reverse. You will never know the volume of mechanical noises, screaming and yelling I heard.

 

I sometimes use my left foot for braking, and I used to drive my old car the same way as I found I had a quicker reaction to braking (and living in Los Angeles you need all the help you can get with those crazy drivers lol). But my brakes on my truck and the brakes on my old car never got worn down nor suffered from heat abuse, the brakes on my truck are doing really well, no problems yet.