2001 DODGE RAM 1500 — Complaint #847819
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC filed March 20, 2011
NHTSA complaint #847819 (ODI reference 10392255) concerns a 2001 DODGE RAM 1500 and was filed on March 20, 2011. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 19, 2011. The vehicle had 96,000 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, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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 service brakes, hydraulic 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 2001 DODGE RAM 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
DRIVER'S SIDE BRAKE LINE (BEHIND FUEL TANK) ON DODGE RAM 1500 V8 -5.9L BLEW OUT CAUSING ME TO LOOSE MY BRAKES. THIS WAS DUE TO CORROSION. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 847819 |
| ODI Number | 10392255 |
| Date Filed | March 20, 2011 |
| Failure Date | March 19, 2011 |
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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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