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Model years to avoid

Ram 1500

What it says about you

Opinion

You test drove the Ford and the Chevrolet and picked this one because it rode better, and you are right, and nobody in your family accepts it.

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

18 model years on record, 19,391 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2013 (power steering), 2012 (dodge ram), 2011 (tipm). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

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.

  • engaged 2022, 2023, 2024 peak 18.3% of that year's complaints
  • parking brake 2022, 2023 peak 20.4% of that year's complaints
  • stalled 2021, 2022 peak 15.6% of that year's complaints
  • emissions 2015, 2016 peak 7.8% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2027 nothing on record 0 complaints
  2. 2026 5 recalls 142 complaints
  3. 2025 7 recalls 622 complaints
  4. 2024 6 recalls 138 complaints
  5. 2023 11 recalls 382 complaints
  6. 2022 16 recalls 1,194 complaints
  7. 2021 15 recalls 665 complaints
  8. 2020 14 recalls 620 complaints
  9. 2019 30 recalls 1,458 complaints
  10. 2018 15 recalls 646 complaints
  11. 2017 13 recalls 863 complaints
  12. 2016 17 recalls 1,519 complaints
  13. 2015 18 recalls 1,430 complaints
  14. 2014 17 recalls 1,746 complaints
  15. 2013 power steering 3,780 complaints
  16. 2012 dodge ram 2,085 complaints
  17. 2011 tipm 2,064 complaints
  18. 2009 2 recalls 37 complaints

What does a 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.