2007 DODGE RAM 2500 — Complaint #912228
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:DIESEL filed March 29, 2012
NHTSA complaint #912228 (ODI reference 10453507) concerns a 2007 DODGE RAM 2500 and was filed on March 29, 2012. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 26, 2012. The report was geocoded to Kentucky 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
MY 2007 DODGE RAM BLEW A TIPM A/C UNIT. I WAS TOLD BY THE DEALER IT WAS BECAUSE THE AIR CONDITIONER COMPRESSOR CLUTCH LOCKED UP AND BURNED OUT THE TIPM. MY EXTENDED WARRANTY WAS DENIED.I PAID $1500.00 TO GET THIS FIXED THIS WEEK. THE OTHER DAY I WAS DRIVING TO WORK AND MY TRUCK STARTED VIBRATING AND COMPLETELY STOPPED IN THE MIDDLE OF A VERY BUSY ROAD. IT WAS TOWED TO THE DEALER WHERE I WAS TOLD IT HAD A FOREIGN SUBSTANCE IN THE DIESEL FUEL. IT SMELLED LIKE PAINT THINNER. THE WARRANTY REP SAID IT WAS CAUSED BY DIRT IN MY FUEL TANK CAUSED BY NOT CHANGING MY FUEL FILTER FREQUENTLY. NOW THEY TELL ME IT NEEDS 6 FUEL INJECTORS AND A FUEL PUMP TOTAL COST $8000.00. BY THE DEALER AND WARRANTY REP. THE TRUCK HAS 67000 MILES.THEY SAID THIS IS NOT WARRANTY ISSUE AND WILL NOT BE COVERED. *JS
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 912228 |
| ODI Number | 10453507 |
| Date Filed | March 29, 2012 |
| Failure Date | March 26, 2012 |
| VIN | 1D7KS28C27J |
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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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