2018 Ram 1500
This year drew 646 complaints against a median of 863 across the Ram 1500's other years, 0.7× that median. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at. It has 15 recalls, listed below.
Last year of its generation. This Ram 1500 ran from 2009 to 2018, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 646 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 863 |
| Involving a crash | 25 |
| Involving a fire | 8 |
| Recalls | 15 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
Recalls for this year
- 20V475000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 19V347000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 18V398000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 18V280000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 18V332000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 21V632000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V324000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 19V757000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 15. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the 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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