Recall Register

Ram 2500: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 65 recall campaigns for the Ram 2500, model years 2009 to 2026. NHTSA has 679 complaints on file for this model line. 14 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. 20091
  2. 201314
  3. 201414
  4. 201513
  5. 201612
  6. 201711
  7. 20189
  8. 201912
  9. 202010
  10. 20218
  11. 202212
  12. 20238
  13. 20245
  14. 20256
  15. 20267
Ram 2500: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2026 Ram 2500700%1,460,397
2025 Ram 2500600%660,223
2024 Ram 2500500%509,078
2023 Ram 2500800%1,138,501
2022 Ram 25001200%3,918,991
2021 Ram 2500800%2,297,960
2020 Ram 25001000%2,708,555
2019 Ram 25001200%2,449,098
2018 Ram 250091738%7,283,992
2017 Ram 25001150110%10,358,130
2016 Ram 250012121267%11,093,731
2015 Ram 250013115254%13,172,027
2014 Ram 250014238526%13,342,591
2013 Ram 250014138305%7,673,339
2009 Ram 2500 NHTSA page100%328,177

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

985 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.

Ram 2500: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Steering137.1135
Engine135133
Power Train127.9126
Electrical System98.597
Vehicle Speed Control6766
Suspension6766
Fuel/Propulsion System62.962
Unknown or Other62.962
Service Brakes40.640
Air Bags32.532

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Ram 2500, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2025, with 8 campaigns.
Complaints about the Ram 2500, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2018, with 169 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Ram: all 10 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Ram 2500: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/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
Chrysler (FCA US LLC)

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 Ram 2500 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2014 with 14, 2013 with 14, 2015 with 13. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Ram 2500 model year has the most complaints?
The 2014 model year, with 238 of the 679 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Ram 2500 name?
Steering: 137.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine: 135 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 127.9 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Ram 2500?
8 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.