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2006 Dodge Ram 1500 lighting problems

140 complaints about lighting have been filed for the 2006 Dodge Ram 1500, which is 13% of all its NHTSA complaints. It is the 2nd most reported problem area for this model year.

At a glance

Complaints
140 13% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
50,000 miles 128 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
1 and 0
Injuries and deaths
0 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When lighting problems show up

Lighting complaints by mileage, 2006 Dodge Ram 1500 Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 50,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 3 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 29 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 41 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 24 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 19 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 5 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 5 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 1 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 0 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 0 complaints 200k+ miles: 1 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 50,000 miles
Based on 128 complaints that include mileage. 57% 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 miles3
20k to 40k miles29
40k to 60k miles41
60k to 80k miles24
80k to 100k miles19
100k to 120k miles5
120k to 140k miles5
140k to 160k miles1
160k to 180k miles0
180k to 200k miles0
200k+ miles1

What the data shows

Of the 128 lighting complaints that report mileage, the median is about 50,000 miles, and 57% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 1 crash.

What owners wrote

When activating left turn signal, the right signal lights up. Sometimes no signal lights come on at all. This caused a minor accident. And several close calls I see a TSB for the 3500, but not the 1500, sb-08-011-09, NHTSA item number : 10030905

Reported at 90,000 miles, August 2011 Crash

My truck's turn signal has malfunctioned and when your signaling to go left the rear left turn signal would not activate including the left rear flashers. Several months ago the dealer reflashed my tipm and it did resolved the issue temporarily. What had happened was that the same incident occurred but instead when activating the left turn signals it would start working for a couple seconds before jumping activating the opposite turn signal (rightside) almost causing a near collision with other vehicles out on the…

Reported at 77,000 miles, September 2014

Other problems reported for the 2006 Dodge Ram 1500

Lighting problems in other years

Lighting problems across all Dodge models