2008 DODGE RAM 3500 — Complaint #755854
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:UNIVERSAL JOINT filed February 1, 2010
NHTSA complaint #755854 (ODI reference 10303744) concerns a 2008 DODGE RAM 3500 and was filed on February 1, 2010. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 22, 2010. The vehicle had 25,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Massachusetts based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:driveline:universal joint, 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 3500 cohort independently describe similar power train:driveline:universal joint 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 2008 DODGE RAM 3500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
ONE OF MY TIE ROD ENDS JUST DISINTEGRATED WHILE I WAS UNDERWAY ON SMOOTH SURFACE, RESULTING IN LOSS OF STEERING. I COULD HAVE ROLLED THE VEHICLE. THIS IS THE SECOND TIE ROD END TO GO ON THIS VEHICLE IN LESS THAN 25K MILES. *TR THE UNIVERSAL JOINT WAS MAKING NOISES. THE CONSUMER REQUESTED THE DEALER REPLACE IT. UPDATED 04/19/10
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 755854 |
| ODI Number | 10303744 |
| Date Filed | February 1, 2010 |
| Failure Date | January 22, 2010 |
| VIN | 3D6WH48A78G |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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