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2011 DODGE RAM 2500 — Complaint #1179038

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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:FRONT:STABILIZER BAR filed April 30, 2015

NHTSA complaint #1179038 (ODI reference 10713774) concerns a 2011 DODGE RAM 2500 and was filed on April 30, 2015. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 21, 2015. The vehicle had 37,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Indiana based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:front:stabilizer bar, 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 suspension:front:stabilizer bar 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 2011 DODGE RAM 2500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2011 DODGE RAM 2500
Component
SUSPENSION:FRONT:STABILIZER BAR
State
Indiana
Mileage
37,000 mi

Complaint Description

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2011 DODGE RAM 2500. WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 50 MPH OVER A BUMP IN THE ROAD, THE FRONT END WOBBLED UNCONTROLLABLY. THE VEHICLE TRAVELED IN AND OUT OF A DITCH TO A COMPLETE STOP. THE VEHICLE WAS RESTARTED AND RESUMED NORMAL OPERATION. THE VEHICLE WAS DRIVEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHO STATED THAT THE STEERING BOLT JOINTS AND STABILIZING BAR NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 37,000. UPDATED 6/25/15*CN

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1179038
ODI Number 10713774
Date Filed April 30, 2015
Failure Date April 21, 2015
VIN 3D7UT2CL6BG

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