2017 Ram 1500
This year drew 863 complaints against a median of 665 across the Ram 1500's other years, 1.3× that median. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at. It has 13 recalls, listed below.
Generation 1 of the Ram 1500, which began in 2009 and ran to 2018. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 863 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 665 |
| Involving a crash | 80 |
| Involving a fire | 16 |
| Recalls | 13 |
| 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.
- 18V486000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 18V332000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 21V632000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V757000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 17V821000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 17V434000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 13. 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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