2007 Dodge RAM 1500
This year drew an ordinary 534 complaints for a Dodge RAM 1500 — the model's median is 578. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.3% of them mention signal, against 2.9% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 534 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 578 |
| Involving a crash | 33 |
| Involving a fire | 9 |
| Recalls | 7 |
| EPA combined | 14 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- signal — 7.3% of this year's complaints, against 2.9% across the model's other years (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: signal, turn signal, left turn, signals.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
THE TURN SIGNALS AS WELL AS THE WINDSHIELD WIPERS MALFUNCTIONED. WHEN HE ACTIVATED THE LEFT TURN SIGNAL, THE RIGHT SIGNAL WOULD ACTIVATE AND WHEN HE ACTIVATED THE RIGHT TURN SIGNAL THE HAZARD LIGHTS WOULD ACTIVATE, AT TIMES THEY DID NOT WORK AT ALL. BOTH FAILU…
WHEN YOU TURN ON LEFT TURN SIGNAL RIGHT TURN SIGNAL BLINKS. SOME TIMES NO TURN SIGNALS WORK. TURN ON FOUR WAYS FLASHERS ONLY LEFT SIDE WORKS.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16V352000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V313000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V795000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 07E104000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 13V528000 STEERING
- 10E013000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 10E040000 WHEELS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Dodge RAM 1500 was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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