2024 Ram 2500 Uncontrollable Trailer Sway

[RTTS]

More thanks to you guys!
Track bar is good.
Brakes/bearings were just gone thru.
Any other thoughts, please?

 

[Deleted member 47449]

Did you pay to fix the fence?

I live in the rural Rockies and some guy with a trailer ran off the road and damaged my fence while towing. He got his truck and trailer towed out and then he left it. Didn't know it had happened until I saw a tow truck leave. My 80 feet of 8 feet high fence and posts material costs were over $500 which is 62 miles one way to Alpine Fence. My labor was 2 days. I reported it to our Rural Area Sheriff as a property crime. Just saying.

 

[RTTS]

I did...much to the owner's surprise.
I gave him a couple hundred bucks out of pocket so he wouldn't need to wait on and deal with insurance...
Even though he said he wasn't going to repair it and wasn't asking for payment.
But, I wasn't going to be "that" guy.
Right is Right. You break it, you buy/fix it!

 

[Deleted member 47449]

You're a great person.

BTW check under the truck for a dangling loose spare tire. On our 2016 Ram PW it wasn't tight.

 

[Pearce]

More thanks to you guys!
Track bar is good.
Brakes/bearings were just gone thru.
Any other thoughts, please?

Don't take this the wrong way but, go through the trailer again. Been there done that and yeah it sucks. At the risk of embarrassing myself the last tilt deck trailer (that part is just coincidence) I towed 30 min from the house pick up a load driving on the interstate. Got to the location and when the forklift driver put the load on the trailer the coupler came off the ball! It was never locked in. Thought it was riding funny. But I know I flipped the lever to do it.....the wrong way. Talking to my buddy, turns out I'm not the only one who made that mistake with this trailer. Made me feel a little better. ha

Or, seriously, go for a test tow. While there certainly could be something wrong with your brand new truck, the amount of people on this Ram forum that have experienced what you did is extremely small. Unless it has a defect from the factory. It's not the stock suspension system. Chances are greater it's something to do with the trailer or how it is hooked up, or loaded up. I'm curious to see what the cause is as well.

 

[Great White North Eh]

Don't take this the wrong way but, go through the trailer again. Been there done that and yeah it sucks. At the risk of embarrassing myself the last tilt deck trailer (that part is just coincidence) I towed 30 min from the house pick up a load driving on the interstate. Got to the location and when the forklift driver put the load on the trailer the coupler came off the ball! It was never locked in. Thought it was riding funny. But I know I flipped the lever to do it.....the wrong way. Talking to my buddy, turns out I'm not the only one who made that mistake with this trailer. Made me feel a little better. ha

Or, seriously, go for a test tow. While there certainly could be something wrong with your brand new truck, the amount of people on this Ram forum that have experienced what you did is extremely small. Unless it has a defect from the factory. It's not the stock suspension system. Chances are greater it's something to do with the trailer or how it is hooked up, or loaded up. I'm curious to see what the cause is as well.

Ya I to have had my share of towing bloopers. Probably more bad ones than I can count on one hand. Sometimes you get lucky … sometimes luck bites you in the rear. I guess the only true way of knowing is a recreation of the crime …unhook the same loaded trailer with only the hitch on a scale or get a weigh-safe hitch.