2021 RAM 1500 — Complaint #1776186
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NHTSA Complaint about BACK OVER PREVENTION: CAMERA SYSTEM filed October 30, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1776186 (ODI reference 11438753) concerns a 2021 RAM 1500 and was filed on October 30, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 28, 2021. The report was geocoded to Arizona based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as back over prevention: camera system, 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 back over prevention: camera system 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 2021 RAM 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
I am a courier and use my truck to deliver lots of material that I pick up at loading docks. The back up camera shows all shadows as simply black areas, and any details in shadow are absent. If my load obscures my rear view mirror I am backing up blind until the camera is itself in shadow. This is incredibly dangerous, especially if backing up around children.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1776186 |
| ODI Number | 11438753 |
| Date Filed | October 30, 2021 |
| Failure Date | October 28, 2021 |
| VIN | 1C6RR6GG2MS |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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