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2014 RAM 1500 — Complaint #1382403

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NHTSA Complaint about STEERING:LINKAGES filed June 4, 2017

NHTSA complaint #1382403 (ODI reference 10993112) concerns a 2014 RAM 1500 and was filed on June 4, 2017. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 10, 2015. The vehicle had 28,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as steering:linkages, 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 RAM 1500 cohort independently describe similar steering:linkages 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 2014 RAM 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2014 RAM 1500
Component
STEERING:LINKAGES
State
Texas
Mileage
28,000 mi

Complaint Description

STEERING GEAR BOLTS BECAME LOOSE AT 28K MILES.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1382403
ODI Number 10993112
Date Filed June 4, 2017
Failure Date June 10, 2015
VIN 1C6RR7MT8ES

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