2005 DODGE RAM 2500 — Complaint #1821421
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NHTSA Complaint about CHILD SEAT:SHELL:HEADREST filed June 24, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1821421 (ODI reference 11470842) concerns a 2005 DODGE RAM 2500 and was filed on June 24, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 1, 2022. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as child seat:shell:headrest, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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 child seat:shell:headrest 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 2500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a Britax car seat, Model Name: Advocate ClickTight, Manufacture Date: August 26, 2016, installed in a 2005 Dodge Ram 2500. The contact stated that a crack on the right side of the headrest had formed without incident. The manufacturer had yet to be notified of the failure. The car seat had yet to be repaired or replaced. The purchase date of was August 2017.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1821421 |
| ODI Number | 11470842 |
| Date Filed | June 24, 2022 |
| Failure Date | February 1, 2022 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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