Larry

Could be worse, you all could have a RAM 1500 with the electric shift 8 speed automatic transmission where it won’t come out of park or go into it when you want it to. Several reports out there where owners have shifted the dumb rotary dial into Park only to exit the truck and notice it rolling away. Glad the GM 8 speed is basically the same housing as the 6L90 where it still uses a shift cable connected to the selector shaft on the trans. You know, “Service Transfercase” issues have become a common place on GM trucks since 1996 when the electric shift first appeared in full-size trucks. But the reality is, there isn’t one single manufacturer out there where they don’t have the same issues with their electric shift 4x4s. Sure makes you wonder WTF was wrong with true shift levers with steel rod or cables connected transfercases and transmission selector shafts in RAMs case in the first place. People have gotten so lazy and expect car type features in today’s trucks that trucks have become so soft and unreliable in the simplest of expectations like just shifting a stupid tcase or transmission. People driving trucks that really should be driving cars is how the rest of us all got saddled with these stupid features in the first place.