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2004 Dodge Ram 3500 wipers, windshield & visibility problems

Owners reported wipers, windshield & visibility problems in 15 complaints for the 2004 Dodge Ram 3500, 5% of the complaints on file.

At a glance

Complaints
15 5% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
98,000 miles 13 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
2 and 0
Injuries and deaths
3 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When wipers, windshield & visibility problems show up

Wipers, windshield & visibility complaints by mileage, 2004 Dodge Ram 3500 Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 98,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 1 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 1 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 0 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 3 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 3 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 2 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 1 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 0 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 2 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 0 complaints 200k+ miles: 0 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 98,000 miles
Based on 13 complaints that include mileage. 15% 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 miles1
20k to 40k miles1
40k to 60k miles0
60k to 80k miles3
80k to 100k miles3
100k to 120k miles2
120k to 140k miles1
140k to 160k miles0
160k to 180k miles2
180k to 200k miles0
200k+ miles0

What the data shows

Of the 13 wipers, windshield & visibility complaints that report mileage, the median is about 98,000 miles, and 15% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 2 crashes, 3 injuries.

What owners wrote

This complaint is for wiper motor sudden failure on a remanufactured part supplied from oreily auto parts. I replace my wiper motor when the originals wiper park function became finicky. I installed the rebuild motor to factory spec and it functioned properly for about 3 months and proceeded to fail in a major rain storm the wipers would be running full speed then just stop and would resume after about 20 seconds this problem only occurred in heavy rainfall on the hi setting.

Reported at 98,000 miles, April 2017 Crash

The blend door that works the defroster for the windshield is faulty due to poor engineering. In cold weather this could cause serious accidents due to build up of snow and ice on the windshield. Dodge uses cheap parts for the blend door primarily plastic faulty parts. The mechanism that opens and closes the blend door wears out the two pieces that fit together. This causes either the plastic piece to break completely or just continue to rotate without opening or closing the blend door.

Reported at 80,000 miles, December 2012

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