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2003 DODGE RAM 1500 — Complaint #866874

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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:REAR filed July 13, 2011

NHTSA complaint #866874 (ODI reference 10412153) concerns a 2003 DODGE RAM 1500 and was filed on July 13, 2011. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 10, 2011. The vehicle had 61,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:rear, 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 suspension:rear 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.

Vehicle
2003 DODGE RAM 1500
Component
SUSPENSION:REAR
State
Pennsylvania
Mileage
61,000 mi

Complaint Description

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2003 DODGE RAM 1500. THE CONTACT STATED THE DASHBOARD ON THE VEHICLE WAS CRACKED OPEN. THE CONTACT STATED THE GAUGES ARE CURRENTLY WORKING, BUT THE DASHBOARD AND INSTRUMENT PANEL WAS BROKEN. THE CONTACT TOOK THE VEHICLE TO THE DEALER, BUT THE DASHBOARD WAS NOT COVERED UNDER WARRANTY. THE CONTACT STATED THERE WAS ALSO A PROBLEM WITH REAR DIFFERENTIAL WHICH WAS WEARING OUT THE GEAR, BUT THE DEALER WAS UNABLE TO PINPOINT THE CAUSE. THE VIN WAS UNKNOWN. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS UNKNOWN, BUT THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 61,000.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 866874
ODI Number 10412153
Date Filed July 13, 2011
Failure Date February 10, 2011

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