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Hi guys, I’m new here and having a issue. About 4 months ago I bought a 2014 ram ecodiesel with roughly 95,000 miles. The truck ran great when I bought it for the first 5,000 miles or so. I took it in to my local ram dealer a little after I passed the 100,000 mile mark to have the oil and fuel filter changed as well as to have it looked over as it was fairly new to me still at this point. Dealer said everything looked fine. When I bought the truck I was told the previous owner had deleted it and put a new exhaust on so there is no need to put def in. I thought great that is something I would have done anyway had it not been done.
about a month ago I was leaving work in the afternoon pulling a 16’ cargo trailer full of tools and not 300 yards after starting the truck and driving away, up a hill, I get the message service electronic throttle control with a CEL and the truck goes into limp mode. I take the trailer back and unhook and limp the truck to the closest dealer about 35 miles away. They tell me they can’t even look at if for a month and a half. Wonderful 🙄 so I get the truck to my parents house and start looking into what could be the issue. Me code reader tells me I have a p0299 code and a U1424. I cleaned the MAP sensor which looked like it had never been cleaned before which led me to believe that’s the issue. How could this thing possibly be getting any sort of reading with that much soot on it? Also discovered egr cooler and tube were gone and hole capped. I deleted code and everything seemed back to normal.
About a month later and 1500 miles with better fuel economy than I’d seen from the truck the same exact thing happened while this time in 4wd going up a steep gravel road slowly, on a cold engine. I delete the code and everything goes back to normal. A week later, leaving the same job as the first time, code pops again! Towing a trailer full of scaffold and ladders on a relatively cold engine in the same exact spot within 50 feet of where this all started for me the first time! I drive down the road a little ways pull over as the truck is in limp mode and will not go over 35 and I delete the code, get on the highway and proceed to pull the trailer 70mph for 50 miles then up an extremely steep gravel road which requires 4wd and everything runs fine. Plenty of power. 4 days later (today) leaving work, cold engine, code comes up again and goes into limp mode as it does every time. Pull over and delete code. Runs up the interstate fine at 80mph. Doesn’t seem like it has quite the power it did when I first bought it but that could be me just getting use to the truck and also looking for issues.
This all seems to be happening more frequently and is getting very annoying! I bought a new air filter today and will put it in tomorrow and see what happens.
Couod it just be a crappy tune? I do not know what tune it has tho I’m sure it has one being that The def and egr are deleted. Not sure if it’s had the AEM software update in ‘19.
Any thoughts? Thanks for any help guys!
about a month ago I was leaving work in the afternoon pulling a 16’ cargo trailer full of tools and not 300 yards after starting the truck and driving away, up a hill, I get the message service electronic throttle control with a CEL and the truck goes into limp mode. I take the trailer back and unhook and limp the truck to the closest dealer about 35 miles away. They tell me they can’t even look at if for a month and a half. Wonderful 🙄 so I get the truck to my parents house and start looking into what could be the issue. Me code reader tells me I have a p0299 code and a U1424. I cleaned the MAP sensor which looked like it had never been cleaned before which led me to believe that’s the issue. How could this thing possibly be getting any sort of reading with that much soot on it? Also discovered egr cooler and tube were gone and hole capped. I deleted code and everything seemed back to normal.
About a month later and 1500 miles with better fuel economy than I’d seen from the truck the same exact thing happened while this time in 4wd going up a steep gravel road slowly, on a cold engine. I delete the code and everything goes back to normal. A week later, leaving the same job as the first time, code pops again! Towing a trailer full of scaffold and ladders on a relatively cold engine in the same exact spot within 50 feet of where this all started for me the first time! I drive down the road a little ways pull over as the truck is in limp mode and will not go over 35 and I delete the code, get on the highway and proceed to pull the trailer 70mph for 50 miles then up an extremely steep gravel road which requires 4wd and everything runs fine. Plenty of power. 4 days later (today) leaving work, cold engine, code comes up again and goes into limp mode as it does every time. Pull over and delete code. Runs up the interstate fine at 80mph. Doesn’t seem like it has quite the power it did when I first bought it but that could be me just getting use to the truck and also looking for issues.
This all seems to be happening more frequently and is getting very annoying! I bought a new air filter today and will put it in tomorrow and see what happens.
Couod it just be a crappy tune? I do not know what tune it has tho I’m sure it has one being that The def and egr are deleted. Not sure if it’s had the AEM software update in ‘19.
Any thoughts? Thanks for any help guys!
