2025 RAM 2500 — Complaint #2178557
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING filed February 19, 2026
NHTSA complaint #2178557 (ODI reference 11719126) concerns a 2025 RAM 2500 and was filed on February 19, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 19, 2026. The report was geocoded to Connecticut based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting, 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 exterior lighting 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 2025 RAM 2500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2025 Ram 2500. The contact received notification of NHTSA Campaign Number: 26V059000 (Exterior Lighting, Electrical System); however, the part to do the recall repair was not yet available. The dealer was contacted. The contact stated that the manufacturer had exceeded a reasonable amount of time for the recall repair. The manufacturer was made aware of the issue. The contact had not experienced a failure.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2178557 |
| ODI Number | 11719126 |
| Date Filed | February 19, 2026 |
| Failure Date | February 19, 2026 |
| VIN | 3C6UR5DJ7SG |
Similar EXTERIOR LIGHTING Complaints for 2025 RAM 2500
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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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