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2011 Dodge Ram 1500 cruise control problems

Owners reported cruise control problems in 19 complaints for the 2011 Dodge Ram 1500, 2% of the complaints on file.

At a glance

Complaints
19 2% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
40,000 miles 16 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
3 and 0
Injuries and deaths
2 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When cruise control problems show up

Cruise control complaints by mileage, 2011 Dodge Ram 1500 Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 40,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 3 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 5 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 2 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 2 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 1 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 1 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 0 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 2 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 0 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 0 complaints 200k+ miles: 0 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 40,000 miles
Based on 16 complaints that include mileage. 63% 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 miles5
40k to 60k miles2
60k to 80k miles2
80k to 100k miles1
100k to 120k miles1
120k to 140k miles0
140k to 160k miles2
160k to 180k miles0
180k to 200k miles0
200k+ miles0

What the data shows

Of the 16 cruise control complaints that report mileage, the median is about 40,000 miles, and 62% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 3 crashes, 2 injuries.

What owners wrote

Takata recall my truck switch into high speed gear speeded up may have caused a crash sterring became hard to control in motion on a city street

Reported at 145,000 miles, February 2019 CrashInjury

2011 dodge ram 1500 acceleration issues accelerate to very high speed and will not release, put in neutral and pump brakes many times to get to release, gets accelerating at times and will not release happened 4 times returning home with girl friend 12/26/15.

Reported at 65,000 miles, December 2015

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Cruise control problems in other years

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