Recall Register

1994 Dodge Ram 1500: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 1994 Dodge Ram 1500. NHTSA has 98 complaints on file for this model year. 4 NHTSA investigations name this model year.

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Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 1994 Dodge Ram 1500. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 98 complaints for it.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Complaints by component

98 complaints, 121 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

  • 1994 Dodge Ram 1500
  • All 1994 vehicles
1994 Dodge Ram 1500: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component1994 Ram 1500All 1994 vehiclesRam 1500, all yearsMentions
Electrical System15773.169.219
Suspension148.839.975.318
Steering132.234.652.716
Service Brakes, Hydraulic115.7176.884.214
Structure57.948.2202.57
Visibility57.972327
Power Train57.995.9112.47
Exterior Lighting49.625.628.76
Engine and Engine Cooling41.3111.588.65
Air Bags41.356.959.35

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 17.

Complaints that report a crash
10
Complaints that report a fire
4
Injuries in the complaints
11
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
26 Sep 2010

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Complaints about the 1994 Dodge Ram 1500, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 14 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 1994 Dodge Ram 1500
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
DP03006Defect petitionSEAT BACK FAILURESeats23 Sep 20038 Apr 2004
DP03002Defect petitionSTEERING COLUMN SEPARATIONSteering / Column7 May 200322 Jul 2003
EA98010Engineering analysisHEADLIGHT CIRCUITExterior Lighting8 May 199810 Dec 199999V024000
PE96022Preliminary evaluationALLEGED FAILURE OF STEERING PITMAN SHAFTSteering / Gear Box / Shaft Pitman22 Mar 199631 Jul 1996

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19910
  2. 19921
  3. 19930
  4. 19940
  5. 19950
  6. 19960
  7. 19970
  8. 19980
  9. 19990
  10. 20002
  11. 20012
  12. 20023
  13. 20031
  14. 20045
  15. 20054
  16. 20069
  17. 20074
  18. 20085
  19. 20092
  20. 20104
  21. 20114
  22. 20126

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 1994 Dodge Ram 1500: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/dodge/ram-1500/1994/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
CHRYSLER CORPORATION

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Dodge Ram 1500 have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 29 recall campaigns for the Dodge Ram 1500, model years 1991 to 2012. None of them names the 1994 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1994 Dodge Ram 1500 name most often?
Electrical System: 19 of 121 component mentions, or 157 per 1,000. For all 1994 vehicles the figure is 73.1 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1994 Dodge Ram 1500 open?
No. Each of the 4 investigations that name this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.