I was SO close!

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Well after 25 days the dealership called me and said the truck was ready for pick up. If you've been following along, you'll remember my truck gets a check engine light and sticks in gear every time it reaches 4500 rpm's. First repair was replacing the batteries, that didn't fix it. Then they replaced the PCM, but it was "bricked" in the process. Yesterday, 2 Ram Field service Rep's plugged into my truck, with the help of another guy remoted in from Detroit, they reprogrammed the bricked PCM. They relearned everything. They even lifted the truck to relearn suspension travel. The technician and Service manager both put mileage on it. I verified in the app they were trying to duplicate it with all the "throttle pedal events" it logged.

I went to pick up this afternoon. I started it up, pulled off the lot, and got maybe 100 yards before the check engine light came back on and it stuck in gear. Everyone is stumped, including me. It's still throwing a Cam position fault, but the truck runs fine. No power loss, no rough idle, nothing. It just refuses to touch 4500 rpms. And even then , what about a cam position fault causes it to stick in gear and not shift at all until I come to a stop? I'm lost.
 
I think we're all at a loss for words with your truck's issues. Thank you for keeping us in the loop on repair efforts.
 
Ya, it's wild. I just don't see this getting resolved. It has to be a loose connection somewhere that will take hundreds of man hours to sniff out, or maybe it has some sensor or component on there from a SO Ram and its throwing incorrect signals somewhere. Such a bummer.....
 
When is it time to pull the plug and get another one on their dime of course?
AZ state law is 30 days or 4 attempts at repair, although it's never that easy. Tomorrow will be day 26. I hope it doesn't come to that but if it does, I hope my situation is a little easier being that It's been wrong since day one, not 6 months to a year in.
 
Ya, it's wild. I just don't see this getting resolved. It has to be a loose connection somewhere that will take hundreds of man hours to sniff out, or maybe it has some sensor or component on there from a SO Ram and its throwing incorrect signals somewhere. Such a bummer.....

Bmw b58s have intermittent failures of these, they control the cam adv/ret, if i remember this is a similar code the bmws would get, maybe worth asking if they can check it?

On the bmw when you take it out there was a pin the should slide easily in and out if you turn it upside down, they car wouldn't run right when it would get stuck or move slowly. Tried to find a picture of mine but couldn't, found this one online.

Just spit balling here
 

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Bmw b58s have intermittent failures of these, they control the cam adv/ret, if i remember this is a similar code the bmws would get, maybe worth asking if they can check it?

On the bmw when you take it out there was a pin the should slide easily in and out if you turn it upside down, they car wouldn't run right when it would get stuck or move slowly. Tried to find a picture of mine but couldn't, found this one online.

Just spit balling here
Any bit of info helps! I was actually talking to the Service manager about something similar to this. That would make sense. But no one can say for sure if this or what would also cause it to stick in gear until I come to a stop. I'll definitely have them look into this. Thanks!
 
Any bit of info helps! I was actually talking to the Service manager about something similar to this. That would make sense. But no one can say for sure if this or what would also cause it to stick in gear until I come to a stop. I'll definitely have them look into this. Thanks!
Sticking in gear is a weird issue, maybe it's computer safety for the engine having this code, who knows, but worth a shot checking them out. Super accessible on this engine, just make sure they have new seals if they're being pulled, bmws would rip fairly easily, i have no experience with these though
 
Sticking in gear is a weird issue, maybe it's computer safety for the engine having this code, who knows, but worth a shot checking them out. Super accessible on this engine, just make sure they have new seals if they're being pulled, bmws would rip fairly easily, i have no experience with these though
Thank you again.
 
Sticking in gear is a weird issue, maybe it's computer safety for the engine having this code, who knows, but worth a shot checking them out. Super accessible on this engine, just make sure they have new seals if they're being pulled, bmws would rip fairly easily, i have no experience with these though
Do you know if these have cam phaser fuses? Might be worth checking as well when I call the dealer in the morning.
 
AZ state law is 30 days or 4 attempts at repair, although it's never that easy. Tomorrow will be day 26. I hope it doesn't come to that but if it does, I hope my situation is a little easier being that It's been wrong since day one, not 6 months to a year in.
Man that sucks. So sorry!
 

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