2005 DODGE RAM 1500 — Complaint #1457860
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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:FRONT:CONTROL ARM:UPPER ARM filed March 29, 2018
NHTSA complaint #1457860 (ODI reference 10859749) concerns a 2005 DODGE RAM 1500 and was filed on March 29, 2018. The owner reports the failure occurred on May 12, 2014. The report was geocoded to Iowa based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:front:control arm:upper arm, 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 1500 cohort independently describe similar suspension:front:control arm:upper arm 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 2005 DODGE RAM 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
2005 DODGE RAM 1500. CONSUMER WRITES IN REGARDS TO POWERTRAIN, FRONT HUB ASSEMBLY AND REAR DRIVE SHAFT U JOINTS SAFETY ISSUES. *M THE CONSUMER PROVIDED INVOICES THAT STATE EMERGENCY BRAKE IS NOT WORKING, AS WELL AS THE UPPER CONTROL ARMS WITH BALL JOINTS NEED REPLACING. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1457860 |
| ODI Number | 10859749 |
| Date Filed | March 29, 2018 |
| Failure Date | May 12, 2014 |
| VIN | 1D7HU18N35S |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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