2003 DODGE RAM 1500 — Complaint #462365
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AXLE HUBS filed March 23, 2004
NHTSA complaint #462365 (ODI reference 10063740) concerns a 2003 DODGE RAM 1500 and was filed on March 23, 2004. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 23, 2004. The vehicle had 1 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:axle hubs, 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 DODGE RAM 1500 cohort independently describe similar power train:axle hubs 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 2003 DODGE RAM 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
REAR AXLE....LOTS OF MY FRIENDS HAVE HAD THEM BREAK ON THEIR 2003 RAM 1500 QC. HAVE MY FAMILY IN MINE ALL THE TIME AND HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO TAKE THE CHANCE EVERYDAY.....3 CHILDREN AND MY WIFE.*AK NO BREAKAGE YET.....BUT NOT WANTING IT TO EITHER..ALL OF US HAVE A BUILD DATE OF MAY-2003 SO FAR.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 462365 |
| ODI Number | 10063740 |
| Date Filed | March 23, 2004 |
| Failure Date | April 23, 2004 |
| VIN | 1D7HA18D23S |
Similar POWER TRAIN:AXLE HUBS Complaints for 2003 DODGE RAM 1500
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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