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2001 DODGE RAM 1500 — Complaint #866087

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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC filed July 9, 2011

NHTSA complaint #866087 (ODI reference 10411585) concerns a 2001 DODGE RAM 1500 and was filed on July 9, 2011. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 7, 2011. The vehicle had 160,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Ohio 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.

Vehicle
2001 DODGE RAM 1500
Component
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC
State
Ohio
Mileage
160,000 mi

Complaint Description

THE BRAKE LINE ON MY 2001 DODGE RAM 1500 BLEW OUT ABOVE THE GAS TANK. I'VE DISCOVERED THIS SEEMS TO BE A VERY COMMON PROBLEM AMONG OWNERS WITH SIMILAR MAKES. DEFINITELY A SAFETY ISSUE. I'M AT JUST ABOUT 160,000 MILES. *TR

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 866087
ODI Number 10411585
Date Filed July 9, 2011
Failure Date July 7, 2011

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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.