1999 Dodge Ram 1500 body & structure problems

Owners reported body & structure problems in 241 complaints for the 1999 Dodge Ram 1500, 31% of the complaints on file. It is the most reported problem area for this model year.

Complaints: 241 31% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage: 86,000 miles 156 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires: 3 and 2
Injuries and deaths: 6 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When body & structure problems show up

Based on 156 complaints that include mileage. 24% 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	5
20k to 40k miles	10
40k to 60k miles	22
60k to 80k miles	27
80k to 100k miles	42
100k to 120k miles	18
120k to 140k miles	11
140k to 160k miles	10
160k to 180k miles	5
180k to 200k miles	2
200k+ miles	4

What the data shows

Of the 156 body & structure complaints that report mileage, the median is about 86,000 miles, and 24% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 3 crashes, 2 fires, 6 injuries.

What owners wrote

Typical problems with cracked plastic dashboard on 1999 dodge ram pickups (2) combined with failure of airbags to deploy. Both seem to be epidemic in proportion, unfortunately have experienced both. Dash is not safe with cracked, jagged plastic edges waiting to impale or slice you, assuming that flying peices wouldnt do even more harm if airbag had gone off.

Reported at 110,000 miles, June 2010 CrashInjury

Dashboard is falling apart pieces are coming off if an accident were to occur I might be hit by a flying object in the eye and not be able to minimize damage on my 1999 dodge ram the company should be responsible for this repair.

Reported at 60,000 miles, January 2004

Body & structure problems in other years

Body & structure problems across all Dodge models