Recall Register

Dodge Ram 2500: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 22 recall campaigns for the Dodge Ram 2500, model years 1991 to 2012. NHTSA has 6,197 complaints on file for this model line. 21 of the 22 model years have a page on this register.

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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.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

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

  1. 19910
  2. 19920
  3. 19930
  4. 19940
  5. 19950
  6. 19960
  7. 19970
  8. 19980
  9. 19990
  10. 20001
  11. 20011
  12. 20020
  13. 20036
  14. 20046
  15. 20056
  16. 20066
  17. 20078
  18. 20087
  19. 20095
  20. 20104
  21. 20114
  22. 20124
Dodge Ram 2500: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2012 Dodge Ram 2500424988%3,129,376
2011 Dodge Ram 2500428099%2,312,712
2010 Dodge Ram 2500421777%2,312,712
2009 Dodge Ram 2500520673%9,272,734
2008 Dodge Ram 25007303108%10,087,827
2007 Dodge Ram 25008341121%9,845,820
2006 Dodge Ram 25006629223%9,768,321
2005 Dodge Ram 25006399142%10,176,212
2004 Dodge Ram 25006566201%1,457,470
2003 Dodge Ram 25006646229%1,606,149
2002 Dodge Ram 2500015154%
2001 Dodge Ram 25001460163%216,100
2000 Dodge Ram 2500120773%216,100
1999 Dodge Ram 25000308109%
1998 Dodge Ram 2500022178%
1997 Dodge Ram 2500021175%
1996 Dodge Ram 25000285101%
1995 Dodge Ram 2500026594%
1994 Dodge Ram 2500016659%
1993 Dodge Ram 250003914%
1992 Dodge Ram 250003211%
1991 Dodge Ram 2500 NHTSA page0166%

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

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

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.

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

Components in the complaints

8,073 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.

Dodge Ram 2500: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Steering238.81,928
Suspension108872
Power Train82.2664
Structure78.9637
Air Bags70.9572
Electrical System63.5513
Service Brakes, Hydraulic63509
Engine and Engine Cooling36.4294
Exterior Lighting33.2268
Tires24.8200

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Dodge Ram 2500, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2003, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Dodge Ram 2500, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2014, with 934 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Dodge: all 118 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Dodge Ram 2500: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/dodge/ram-2500/. 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
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
DAIMLERCHRYSLER CORPORATION

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Dodge Ram 2500 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2007 with 8, 2008 with 7, 2006 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Dodge Ram 2500 model year has the most complaints?
The 2003 model year, with 646 of the 6,197 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Dodge Ram 2500 name?
Steering: 238.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Suspension: 108 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 82.2 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Dodge Ram 2500?
25 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.