1999 Dodge Ram 1500 engine problems

43 complaints about engine have been filed for the 1999 Dodge Ram 1500, which is 6% of all its NHTSA complaints.

Complaints: 43 6% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage: 70,000 miles 20 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires: 2 and 1
Injuries and deaths: 1 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When engine problems show up

Based on 20 complaints that include mileage. 45% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.

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Mileage	Complaints
0k to 20k miles	1
20k to 40k miles	4
40k to 60k miles	4
60k to 80k miles	2
80k to 100k miles	7
100k to 120k miles	0
120k to 140k miles	0
140k to 160k miles	0
160k to 180k miles	1
180k to 200k miles	0
200k+ miles	1

What the data shows

Of the 20 engine complaints that report mileage, the median is about 70,000 miles, and 45% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 2 crashes, 1 fire, 1 injury.

What owners wrote

While driving the vehicle completely shuts down without warning, causing loss of steering control and brake failure, which resulted in a collision in which the air bags did not deploy. Electrical system failure caused accident. Chrysler refuses to find the problem or provide a replacement vehicle, as does dealer.

January 1999 CrashInjury

Steering seemed loose. Dealer replaced trac bar, inner and lower tie rod ends, and an additional bar. Just after warranty expired, mileage 35,982 on november 21, 2002. As of march 5, 2003 front end and steering is worse than when it went in. Very loose feeling, frequent steering wheel correction needed. Very dangerous situation especially on snow covered roads. Very unsafe feeling. Dealer was asked to check work that was performed on november 0f 2002, on january 30, 2003. They did not look into the situation.

Reported at 35,982 miles, November 2002

Engine problems in other years

Engine problems across all Dodge models