Dodge Ram 2500

Which Dodge Ram 2500 years should you avoid?

Going by 6,444 owner complaints filed with NHTSA, the Dodge Ram 2500 years to avoid are 2006, 2003, 2007 and 2004.

• 2006670 complaints, 2.4× a typical Ram 2500 year, most often about the steering.
• 2003661 complaints, 2.3× a typical Ram 2500 year, most often about the airbags.
• 20072.1× the usual share of fires, crashes and deaths for a car of its age (9 fires, 20 crashes, 2 deaths).
• 2004582 complaints, 2.1× a typical Ram 2500 year, most often about the steering.

How this is worked out: each year is compared with a typical year of the same model, which takes most of the difference in sales out of it, and its share of serious failures is compared with every other car of the same model year, because older cars were complained about differently. A year needs 25 complaints to be judged at all. Complaints are unverified owner reports. Full method →