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2005 Dodge Ram 1500 air bags problems

378 complaints about air bags have been filed for the 2005 Dodge Ram 1500, which is 23% of all its NHTSA complaints. It is the 2nd most reported problem area for this model year.

At a glance

Complaints
378 23% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
88,000 miles 98 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
62 and 0
Injuries and deaths
52 and 4

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When air bags problems show up

Air bags complaints by mileage, 2005 Dodge Ram 1500 Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 88,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 8 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 11 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 12 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 11 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 13 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 8 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 14 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 11 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 5 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 3 complaints 200k+ miles: 2 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 88,000 miles
Based on 98 complaints that include mileage. 32% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.
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MileageComplaints
0k to 20k miles8
20k to 40k miles11
40k to 60k miles12
60k to 80k miles11
80k to 100k miles13
100k to 120k miles8
120k to 140k miles14
140k to 160k miles11
160k to 180k miles5
180k to 200k miles3
200k+ miles2

What the data shows

Of the 98 air bags complaints that report mileage, the median is about 88,000 miles, and 32% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 62 crashes, 52 injuries, 4 deaths.

What owners wrote

Tl* the contact owned a 2005 dodge ram 1500. The contact stated that the vehicle was involved in a crash where the air bag failed to deploy. The failure caused the driver to sustain fatal injuries. A police report was filed and the vehicle was destroyed. Further details about the crash were not made available. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 33,000. Updated 5/29/15 updated 9/17/2015

Reported at 33,000 miles, March 2015 CrashInjuryDeath

While driving vibration in the front proceeded to lose control lose control with out knowing I was off the road into a guard rail through a small building from the highway department storage I proceeded to go through the building and into to park cars after being told they were told it was a complete wreck I was brought to the hospital in exeter new hampshire please run the scenes no airbags failed to inflate and vibration and I could not stop nor steers vehicle I had no frenchy's and I use my vehicle for business…

Reported at 141,000 miles, August 2014 CrashInjury

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