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Model years to avoid

Dodge RAM 1500

What it says about you

Opinion

Before Ram was its own brand, it was this. Yours predates the split and you point that out.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

8 model years on record, 4,380 complaints filed. No year stood out against this model's own history — which means it has not drawn unusual complaints, not that it is a good car.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • train 2005, 2010 peak 31.7% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2012 nothing on record 0 complaints
  2. 2011 nothing on record 0 complaints
  3. 2010 0 recalls 566 complaints
  4. 2009 2 recalls 679 complaints
  5. 2008 8 recalls 578 complaints
  6. 2007 7 recalls 534 complaints
  7. 2006 12 recalls 817 complaints
  8. 2005 7 recalls 1,206 complaints

What does a Dodge RAM 1500 say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.