Even though I made up my screen name here when i first bought my truck 4 months ago, I never really post, I just sit here and read information. I hate to pop my posting cherry like this...but...Here is the issue....

I was driving in the highway at normal speeds yesterday, and when i slow down for the toll i feel it kick hard into 3rd gear while downshifting...and in my mind I was like...ohhhh no please dont...sure enough its been stuck in there ever since with a check engine light.

From previous cars I have owned i know its some sort of a safety mode, but what i don't get is my truck was shifting fine and driving fine right up to that point. Now here is the kicker, the truck has just turned 38k miles so is BARELY out of warranty. Any advice? tips? recommendations? has anyone experienced this?? am I going to have to sell my kidney to pay for this???? any ideas would be helpful.

Also is the 07 4x2 Hemi Ram tranny shared by any other year models??? in case i have to start shopping for a new one.


Yours,
-Mario Deniz

 

sounds like a shift solonoid gone bad...hopefully???..lol

You threw a code, so I would check out what that is FIRST!

Many Rams have that same tranny. 5r55E(i think?)

 

How do i check the codes with out a reader?

 

Autozone, Advance auto, Pep Boys or most large supply stores will pull and read your codes in hopes you'll buy your desperately need parts from them...lol

There is a trick by pushing and holding the trip button while you turn or start the truck??? I'm not sure how that goes as I have a reader, but maybe someone else can chime in. You'd get a code but then you still would need to find what it eans. Going to a store, they will tell you the actual problem or generic problem dependig on the code.
Don't unhook the battery to reset it without reading the code first. After you read it, try and reset and see if that works? or try it now?

 

i tried reseting it yesterday but its still stuck on the gear, though engine light is off, i don't wanna drive it like this much though.

 

I tried taking it arround the block and even though now engine light is back on tranny seems fine...am I the only one having this issue???

 

My truck did this shortly after I bought it. It is a safe mode that a lot of chrysler vehicles have when something internally is wrong with the transmission. I would say prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

My truck had 128 thousand miles when it happened to me. It happened because my torque converter apparently had been taking a beating from old age and whatever else. The shop dropped my transmission pan and found metal from internal parts. Paid 2100 bucks for a tranny rebuild with a three year transferable warrenty.

But hope for a messed up sensor.

I don't know about the newer rams but on mine I check the codes by turing the key from off to on three times in a row. Then the code(s) will pop up in the readout.

 

I think you can still do the key trick with the newer models, turn the key on/off on/off on and it should pop up a code where your odometer reading is. post the number that it comes up with and someone can look it up. Obviously since the engine light came back on this wasn't a glitch in the system.

 

reset the pcm... should "unlock" the issue you have but if the solenoid is bad like Dog says, you'll hafta get that fixed/replaced

 

they key thing didin't work. In my 07 tried it in every which way.