2007 Dodge RAM 1500 Wheels Problems

“I was driving 40 MPH (normally 55 as it is a downtown corridor) down a main highway in my area, where there was on-going road construction and felt a slight shimmy and then a drifting, similar to hydroplaning. I exited off the highway, onto my pre-planned exit and drove another mile or so. I was then going around a traffic circle (in a bearing curve to the left), at approximately 15-20 MPH, and began to feel a hard shimmy . Within seconds, it progressed to a lurching and shaking...as I watched my rear drivers-side wheel and tire spin around in the road/traffic circle behind me. …”

“I just bought the truck a week prior to the first time this happened. I hit a small bump in the road going about 55 MPH. When I hit the bump the whole truck and the steering wheel began to violently shake. I could not control the truck. It felt like the front end of the truck had broken and was coming apart. I hit the breaks and it finally stopped shaking when I got down to about 30 MPH. I pulled over and got out and looked around the truck, and I found nothing wrong with it so I slowly drove it back home. …”

“Us customer service - Dodge brand site brief description: wheel problems comments: hello, I owned a 2001 RAM 1500 for 7 years & 400,000 miles with no complaints. I recently bought a 2007 4x4. I am really glad that Dodge has not made too many changes to the truck. I only have one major complaint about this truck. The wheels! I live in the country down a dirt road. The wheels are made wrong. Everytime I go in out from my house when it's muddy, the mud gets in a groove on the inside of the rim that makes the frontend shimmy really bad. …”

“On 2/6/13, at 5:30pm, while driving on the interstate, out of nowhere the truck started to shake violently pulled to the left, tried to brake (not working) driverside wheel sheared off the truck.”

“- the contact stated that mud and or snow got into and froze in the rims of the 2007 Dodge RAM 1500 with 500 failure mileage. The vehicle then shook when driven ,almost uncontrollably. The vehicle was taken to a dealer, and they determined that the rim had a cup that held the snow and mud, which threw the vehicle out of alignment. The contact was concerned that he will one day have an accident because of this. The current mileage was 3,900 miles. Updated 04/30/07.”