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1995 DODGE RAM 2500 — Complaint #114632

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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DRUM filed September 4, 1998

NHTSA complaint #114632 (ODI reference 827619) concerns a 1995 DODGE RAM 2500 and was filed on September 4, 1998. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 9, 1998. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:drum, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.

The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.

Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same DODGE RAM 2500 cohort independently describe similar service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:drum failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 1995 DODGE RAM 2500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
1995 DODGE RAM 2500
Component
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DRUM
State
Pennsylvania

Complaint Description

WHILE DRIVING ABOUT 40 MPH, THE CONSUMER WENT TO APPLY THE BRAKE PEDAL AND REAR BRAKES LOCKED UP. IF THE CONSUMER SLAMMED ON BRAKES HARD THE BRAKE'S WOULD BRAKE IN HALF. THE BRAKES ALSO SMOKE WHILE DRIVING THE VEHICLE. *AK

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 114632
ODI Number 827619
Date Filed September 4, 1998
Failure Date August 9, 1998
VIN 1B7JF26Z9S2

Similar SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DRUM Complaints for 1995 DODGE RAM 2500

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.