id agree however ram since the 90s have had a rep for trash transmissions. the rep didnt stop at the 68rfe. Of the millions of trucks, it would be cool to know the amount of trans issues these trucks have had considering ive had several trans go since ive owned rams since 1999
Again, that's the bean counters who took over back in the 80's. Remember Chrysler's little K cars? Those were built specifically at the direction of the bean counters. Arguably saved the company from bankruptcy but every piece of them was designed so that 90-95% wouldn't have failures. That's basically been the formula since then, with a few exceptions here and there.
The failure rate is likely in that same range, and a lot of it has to do with the operator. If you are pushing into the higher limits of what the vehicle was designed for in one way or another, you're starting to fall into that 5-10% range of people who will have a problem.
Again, it SHOULD be able to handle it, but when it comes to modern mass production, the limit isn't really where it should be from a customer standpoint. It is right where it should be from a business standpoint, and if they could find a way to lower it without incurring more costs, they would.