14V770000
AIR BAGS
In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the passengers frontal air bag, the inflator could rupture with metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants potentially resulting in serious injury or death.
2005 DODGE RAM 3500
3 safety recall campaigns, 7 defect investigations (1 open), 240 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns3
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations71 open
Owner complaints240
Complaints citing a crash31
Complaints citing a fire9
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 3 of 3
13V528000
STEERING:LINKAGES:TIE ROD ASSEMBLY
A failure of the tie rod assembly may result in a loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash.
11V350000
STEERING:LINKAGES:TIE ROD ASSEMBLY
THIS CONDITION COULD RESULT IN THE POTENTIAL LOSS OF DIRECTIONAL STABILITY IN THE LEFT HAND FRONT WHEEL, INCREASING THE RISK OF A CRASH.
What owners report most
- 51STEERING
- 33AIR BAGS
- 25POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
- 14SUSPENSION
- 13ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 7VISIBILITY/WIPER
- 6UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 6FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2005 DODGE RAM 3500s can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.