21V037000
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:MASTER CYLINDER
A separated brake pedal can result in the driver being unable to apply the service brakes, increasing the risk of a crash.
2021 RAM 1500
14 safety recall campaigns, 1 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 1 defect investigation (1 open), 1,111 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Do not drive
1 campaign covering the 2021 RAM 1500 carries NHTSA’s “park it” advisory — the federal government telling owners to stop driving the vehicle until the remedy has been performed. Whether it was performed on any particular car is not something NHTSA publishes in a form anyone can query; a franchised dealer can run the VIN and print the record in a minute, and the repair is free.
The record
Recall campaigns14
Park it1stop driving until repaired
Investigations11 open
Owner complaints1,111
Complaints citing a crash40
Complaints citing a fire7
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 6 of 14
25V765000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
A driver's side air bag that does not deploy as intended increases the risk of injury in a crash.
25V298000
AIR BAGS
A driver's side air bag that does not deploy as intended increases the risk of injury in a crash.
24V754000
VISIBILITY:REARVIEW MIRRORS/DEVICES
Detached mirror glass can reduce driver visibility, increasing the risk of a crash.
24V653000
ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC):CONTROL MODULE
Driving with a disabled electronic stability control system can increase the risk of a crash.
23V265000
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:CONTROL MODULE (TCM/PCM/TECM)
An engine stall can increase the risk of a crash.
What owners report most
- 271ENGINE
- 184ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 98UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 94POWER TRAIN
- 66FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
- 53SERVICE BRAKES
- 45FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
- 45STEERING
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2021 RAM 1500s 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.