Model years Ram Promaster City
2015 Ram Promaster City
Complaints about this year name transmission far more often than the model's other years — 26% of them, about 66× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 87 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 5 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| EPA combined | 24 mpg |
Also unusual this year
- drive — 17% of complaints, 43× usual
- because — 17% of complaints, 43× usual
- over — 17% of complaints, 43× usual
What owners wrote
WE OWN A 2015 RAM PROMASTERS. WHILE DRIVING ON THE FREEWAY AT VARIOUS SPEEDS. TECH EXPERIENCED A SUDDEN LOSS OF POWER. ON THE DASH APPEARED A YELLOW CHECK ENGINE LIGHT AND A RED SYMBOL ( ! ). A MESSAGE READ "SERVICE REQUIRED - TRANSMISSION SERVICE". AS THE TEC…
RECENTLY THIS VEHICLE WAS PARKED ON A SLIGHT INCLINE AND AFTER THE EMERGENCY BRAKE WAS APPLIED THE VEHICLE BEGAN TO ROLL. THIS MODEL VEHICLE DOES NOT HAVE A PARK POSITION FOR THE TRANSMISSION LEVER. NOT SURE WHY THIS VEHICLE DOES NOT HAVE A PARK POSITION BECAU…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16E039000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 17V824000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 17V601000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 16V253000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ram Promaster City 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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