NHTSA lists 684 complaints for the 2012 Ram 1500, 32 of them mention a crash and 9 mention a fire. 20 complaints mention an injury, with 27 injuries and 0 deaths reported.
Data build 2026-10-07.
NHTSA lists this vehicle as RAM 1500.
At a glance
Complaints
684
With crash
32
With fire
9
With injury (complaints)
20
Injuries
27
Deaths
0
Recalls
0
Do not drive recalls
0
Park outside recalls
0
Recall potential units (maximum)
Unavailable
Investigations
1
Open investigations
0
Manufacturer communications
0
Complaints per 100k sold unavailable. The available sales group does not match this vehicle variant.
Where the complaints are
Top systems
System
Complaints
Share of this vehicle's complaints
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
173
25.3%
ENGINE
160
23.4%
FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
90
13.2%
POWER TRAIN
89
13.0%
AIR BAGS
80
11.7%
UNKNOWN OR OTHER
64
9.4%
SERVICE BRAKES
49
7.2%
STEERING
47
6.9%
EXTERIOR LIGHTING
45
6.6%
FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE
29
4.2%
Top subsystems
System
Subsystem
Complaints
One complaint can name several systems, so shares can add to more than 100 percent.
Confidence is the model's own probability for the label it chose (0 to 1), not accuracy.
Model-generated labels on tagged complaints only. Model years 2013 and newer are tagged in full; 2012 in part (see tagged_share); earlier model years have no tags. NHTSA's own flags remain separate in the complaints block.
Recalls
0 recalls.
Investigations
1 investigations; 0 open.
DP14004
Opened: 2014-09-25. Closed: 2015-07-24.
Totally Integrated Power Module Failure
In a letter dated August 21, 2014, the Center for Auto Safety (CAS) petitioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to initiate a defect investigation of alleged failures associated with the Totally Integrated Power Module (TIPM) installed in Chrysler SUV?s, trucks, and vans beginning in the 2007 model year. The petitioner alleges that TIPM defects may result in engine stall,
Systems: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM.
Linked campaign numbers: None listed.
Manufacturer communications
0 manufacturer communications.
Communications by system
System
Count
Notes on this record
Complaints from the API and bulk file are merged and deduplicated by ODI number; the API alone misses records.
System and subsystem counts are numbers of distinct complaints, recalls or communications that name them. One record can name several systems, so shares across systems can add to more than 100 percent; a single share never exceeds 100 percent.
Recalls are counted once per campaign, investigations once per action and manufacturer communications once per NHTSA id, even when NHTSA lists several model names for the same record.
A sales denominator is a calendar-year proxy, not the population of vehicles still in use. Rates are copied from verified pipeline output.