2007 DODGE RAM 2500 — Complaint #656506
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:DIESEL filed February 6, 2008
NHTSA complaint #656506 (ODI reference 10217111) concerns a 2007 DODGE RAM 2500 and was filed on February 6, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 10, 2007. The vehicle had 800 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine and engine cooling:engine:diesel, 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 2500 cohort independently describe similar engine and engine cooling:engine:diesel 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 2007 DODGE RAM 2500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
SENT TO CALIFORNIA NEW MOTOR VEHICLE BOARD I HAVE OWNED THE VEHICLE FOR 183 DAYS AS OF THIS LETTER. IT HAS BEEN IN THE SHOP AND HAD R.O.'S OPEN FOR A TOTAL OF 64 DAYS. THIS EQUATES TO ROUGHLY 35% OF MY OWERSHIP TIME. DODGE HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO RESOLVE THE PROBLEMS IN A REASONABLE TIME. ALTHOUGH THEIR ARE "X" NUMBER OF RO'S REGARDING THE REPAIRS. IT IS IMPERITIVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT I BROUGHT THE TRUCK BACK INTO THE DEALERSHIP WHILE THE RO WAS OPEN AS THE FAILURE OCCURED AGAIN AND AGAIN. ON TWO OCCASIONS THE VEHICLE WAS IN THE SERVICE AISLE DRIPPING FROM BEING FRESHLY WASHED AND READY FOR PICKUP, AS I STARTED THE TRUCK THE CEL CAME ON (CHECK ENGINE LIGHT). I HAVE A NEW TRUCK THAT HAS YET TO PERFORM THE WAY IT WAS INTENDED. I HAVE BEEN PATIENT, THE PEOPLE AT HEMET CHRYSLER HAVE BEEN WONDERFUL. HOWEVER, I AM DONE. THE MAJOR PROBLEM WITH THE TRUCK IS THE TURBO/ENGINE BRAKE SYSTEM. IT HAS ONLY PERFORMED PROPERLY FOR ABOUT THE FIRST 800-900 MILES OF OWNERSHIP. THE REAL ISSUE IS WHEN T
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 656506 |
| ODI Number | 10217111 |
| Date Filed | February 6, 2008 |
| Failure Date | July 10, 2007 |
| VIN | 3D7KR28A07G |
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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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