RAM problems by model
Owners have filed 27,853 complaints with NHTSA about the 4 RAM models with enough data to profile here, covering 38 model years from 2013 through 2026. The 1500 draws the most at 16,916, 60.7% of the make's total.
Complaint volume tracks how many cars a make sold as much as how they held up, and NHTSA complaints are unverified owner reports rather than confirmed defects. Nothing on this page compares RAM against another manufacturer. Use it to find the model, then the model year, then read what owners of that year actually filed.
Every RAM model
| Model | Model years | Complaints | Most-reported year | Top system that year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1500 | 14 2013–2026 | 16,916 | 2014 2,429 | Steering (21.0%) |
| 2500 | 11 2013–2025 | 7,367 | 2018 3,854 | Service brakes (47.8%) |
| 3500 | 9 2013–2022 | 3,067 | 2018 1,165 | Service brakes (43.0%) |
| Promaster | 4 2014–2023 | 503 | 2021 156 | Back over prevention (16.0%) |
Model years shown are those with at least 100 complaints on file, the gate every page on this site has to clear.
Reading the numbers
Across every RAM model year on the site, service brakes are the system named most often: 4,103 complaints, 19.5% of those filed under a named system. Individual model years diverge from that sharply, which is the reason to read the year rather than the badge.
The three most-reported RAM models (1500, 2500 and 3500) account for 98.2% of the make's complaint volume. That is a concentrated picture: most of what gets reported about RAM here comes from three nameplates. Bear in mind that a nameplate selling in the millions will out-file a niche one whatever its record.
Of the 27,853 complaints, 1,221 describe a crash, 473 describe a fire and 27 report a death.
Most-reported RAM model years
The single heaviest model year of each RAM nameplate, 2013–2026. Heaviest is not worst. Read it alongside the model page.