This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.
So how do you find out what problems are occurring? For this NHTSA complaint data, the only way is to read through the comments below. Any duplicates or errors? It's not us.
The reason the owners of these Dodges is that the dealers break the already brittle dash boards and REFUSE to repair or replace the dashboard. So most wont have the recall performed. So until the dealers are forced to repair/replace the brittle dashes when they perform these recalls then people will not have it addressed. Also i have owned my Dodge since October 2022. Truck is registered with dodge on the website and yet to receive a recall notice in the mail. Now if i go and look it shows the recall on my truck but many do not register their vehicles with the manufacturers website. All in all the EXPENSIVE dashboards being broke by dealerships performing the recall is why owners wont go thru it. Many have paid thousands in getting the dashes fixed. Also id think brittle dashboards that turn sharp daggers would be a safety hazard as well but yet no recall. My dash is missing HUGE pieces. Leaving sharp jagged edges that will be knives in an accident. I mean if the dashes bust just by replacing an airbag inflator or just sun exposure. Imagine being in an accident.
I just bought this car with a smog certificate of less than 90 days ago from today and it caught on fire while I was driving it not even going over 55 miles an hour. I seen a potential recall that would cause a fire like that for the make and model of my vehicle but when I put my vin in it says it wasn-??t effected. To be clear my vehicle wasn-??t leaking any fluids either.
This vehicle had last been started and driven 7 hrs prior and exploded in the driveway, caught the house on fire and nearly killed my son who was near the inside wall of the house. The engine blew and then the front tires. Three explosions in all before the fire department was able to stop the fire. Luckily they were only a mile away. This was an older but well running vehicle.
Was doing some regular maintenance on my truck climbed under my truck to do my oil change and a portion of my frame on the driver side about half way of the cab is rusted out. It was not like this bout 4 months ago when I did my last old change.
I have contacted the local dealer a number of times regarding NHTSA recall number17V-821. They state that there is still no fix for model year 2013 Ram trucks. This is a significant safety issue.
The rear end on my Ram 1500 hemi 1500 gear is making a humming sound constantly, it never stops. I called the dealer they no longer have the part and I can't find one, I was told there was a recall, but I never received one. Please help!!
The contact owned a 2003 Dodge Ram 1500. While the vehicle was at a stop light, smoke and flames suddenly appeared under the hood. The smoke quickly engulfed the cabin of the vehicle. The fire department was called to the scene to extinguish the flames and a fire report was filed. There were no injuries. The vehicle was towed to an undisclosed location and deemed destroyed. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The local dealer was not notified. The failure mileage was 33,000.
Dash has just fallen apart shards are all over the place. Ac re circulation door has broken off so can not divert flow from vents to defrost so I can not defog the inside of my windshield. The ac quit getting power do to ignition wires getting hot in connection.
Dash breaking up trying to get pieces of so they will not cause any injuries if in accident cut hand on sharp edges left now am scared of dash if I do get in accident what we'll happen when this shrapnel is flying around and propelled by air bag
Takata recall. Like many other Dodge 1500 owners, my dash has cracked and I cannot get the recall fixed. Because it is cracked the dealer wont touch the air bags even though it states serious injury or death can occur if not taken care of.
Just bought this veicle second owner of said vehicle look it all over. Brought it to a.dealer ship to have a state inspection performed and the frame crunched on the lift. Note the frame still had black paint on it from.factory. The frame literally rotted from inside out. And it appears I am not the only on with this issue. This frame has not lasted anywhere near the life expectancy of the vehicle 20 yrs. And there are way older vehicle on the road that still are perfect. Toyota gets a frame recall but this Dodge won't and I do not understand why this is so. This is a problem considering it's rotting from the inside out. I see frames braking while driving this is a major safety issue that should be addressed.
The dash is severely cracked and disintegrating. Pieces of the dash have come off completely and they have very sharp edges. This is a massive safety issue, not a cosmetic one. The missing dash pieces has exposed under dash wiring and air bag modules.
Over a period of a few years the dashboard has been cracking and small pieces breaking off. Recently the air conditioning stopped working so I took it to my mechanic and it turned out to be a defective evaporator coil which is under the dash. When they started to remove the dash it broke into small pieces. I was not too worried about this because I had recently purchased a dash cover from an online company. The mechanic said it was not a cosmetic problem, the passenger air bag is supported by this dash and they would have to do a lot of extra work to keep the airbag in position. It cost me an extra $400. The NHTSA is aware that this is an extensive problem yet you refuse to consider a recall because you consider it to be a cosmetic issue. Are you aware that an airbag is suspended from this dash and if the dash crumbles so does the airbag and very possibly will not deploy in an accident
A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
- Spencer, OK, USA