2016 RAM 1500 — Complaint #1804966
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NHTSA Complaint about SEAT BELTS:FRONT filed March 31, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1804966 (ODI reference 11459086) concerns a 2016 RAM 1500 and was filed on March 31, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 1, 2022. The vehicle had 60,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Arizona based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seat belts:front, 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 seat belts:front 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 2016 RAM 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contactâs friend owns a 2016 Ram 1500. The contact stated that mechanism securing the driverâs side seat belt to the floor would occasionally seize and detach from the floor causing the seat belt to become unsecured. The cause of the failure was not determined. The manufacturer and local dealer were not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 60,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1804966 |
| ODI Number | 11459086 |
| Date Filed | March 31, 2022 |
| Failure Date | March 1, 2022 |
| VIN | 3C6RR6LT4GG |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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