2018 RAM 2500 — Complaint #1916816
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:ANTILOCK/TRACTION CONTROL/ELECTRONIC LIMITED SLIP filed August 7, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1916816 (ODI reference 11536970) concerns a 2018 RAM 2500 and was filed on August 7, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 18, 2023. The vehicle had 65,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Virginia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, hydraulic:antilock/traction control/electronic limited slip, 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 2500 cohort independently describe similar service brakes, hydraulic:antilock/traction control/electronic limited slip 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 2018 RAM 2500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2018 Ram 2500. The contact stated while driving at an undisclosed speed, the service electronic brakes message displayed with the traction control and ABS warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was taken to a dealer where it was diagnosed that the hydraulic control unit had failed and needed to be replaced. The contact was informed by the dealer that the part was not available. The contact was able to order the part online. The vehicle was not yet repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 65,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1916816 |
| ODI Number | 11536970 |
| Date Filed | August 7, 2023 |
| Failure Date | July 18, 2023 |
| VIN | 3C6UR5PL9JG |
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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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