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Dodge Ramcharger: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 8 recall campaigns for the Dodge Ramcharger, model years 1974 to 1991. NHTSA has 23 complaints on file for this model line. 5 of the 15 model years have a page on this register.

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. 19741
  2. 19782
  3. 19790
  4. 19801
  5. 19811
  6. 19822
  7. 19832
  8. 19842
  9. 19852
  10. 19860
  11. 19870
  12. 19880
  13. 19890
  14. 19900
  15. 19910
Dodge Ramcharger: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1991 Dodge Ramcharger NHTSA page04261%
1990 Dodge Ramcharger NHTSA page02130%
1989 Dodge Ramcharger NHTSA page0165%
1988 Dodge Ramcharger NHTSA page03196%
1987 Dodge Ramcharger NHTSA page04261%
1986 Dodge Ramcharger NHTSA page02130%
1985 Dodge Ramcharger24261%9,482
1984 Dodge Ramcharger200%10,600
1983 Dodge Ramcharger200%10,525
1982 Dodge Ramcharger200%12,800
1981 Dodge Ramcharger NHTSA page1165%8,800
1980 Dodge Ramcharger NHTSA page100%8,800
1979 Dodge Ramcharger NHTSA page02130%
1978 Dodge Ramcharger200%9,600
1974 Dodge Ramcharger NHTSA page100%340

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

30 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 Ramcharger: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Tires2006
Service Brakes, Hydraulic133.34
Steering133.34
Seats1003
Structure1003
Suspension1003
Power Train66.72
Vehicle Speed Control66.72
Visibility33.31
Fuel System, Gasoline33.31

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Dodge Ramcharger, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Dodge Ramcharger, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 6 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Dodge: all 119 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Dodge Ramcharger: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/dodge/ramcharger/. 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
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file
CHRYSLER 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 Ramcharger model years have the most recall campaigns?
1985 with 2, 1984 with 2, 1983 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Dodge Ramcharger model year has the most complaints?
The 1985 model year, with 4 of the 23 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Dodge Ramcharger name?
Tires: 6 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 4 component mentions. Steering: 4 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Dodge Ramcharger?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.