2022 Ram 1500
This year drew an ordinary 1,194 complaints for a Ram 1500 — the model's median is 665. What they were about is the unusual part: 15.6% of them mention stalled, against 5.6% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Ram 1500, which began in 2019. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
| Complaints filed | 1,194 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 665 |
| Involving a crash | 46 |
| Involving a fire | 12 |
| Recalls | 16 |
| EPA combined | 21.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- stalled — 15.6% of this year's complaints, against 5.6% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: stalled, vehicle stalled, low speed, red light.
- parking brake — 9.9% of this year's complaints, against 2.8% across the other years of this generation (3.5×). Owners wrote it as: parking brake, slow speed.
- engaged — 7.9% of this year's complaints, against 1.6% across the other years of this generation (4.9×).
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
On July 20, 2024, I was stopping at a red light at a slow speed when the electronic parking brake engaged on its own. I couldn’t turn it off and the truck would not move forward when the light turned green. I had to turn the vehicle on and off several times to…
Vehicle stalled at low speed while in reverse and once the engine stopped running the emergency brake engaged.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V871000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 22V407000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 22V766000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 22V767000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 22V904000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 23V059000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 23V263000 FUEL SYSTEM, DIESEL Fixed free of charge.
- 23V264000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 16. 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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