2018 RAM 1500 defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2018 RAM 1500. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Post Recall Remedy Brake Transmission Shift Interlock (BTSI) Failure
  Recall Query RQ25003 · opened Jul 3, 2025 · still open

  The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) has received 14 Vehicle Owner Questionnaire (VOQ) reports and 6 EWR Death & Injury (D&I) reports describing post recall remedy failures of the brake transmission shift interlock (BTSI) system in certain Model Year (MY) 2013-2018 RAM pickup trucks.The subject vehicle models incl…

• High pressure fuel pump failure
  Engineering Analysis EA23001 · opened Mar 17, 2023 · still open · led to recall 24V957

  The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened PE21-021 on October 14, 2021, to investigate incidents alleging a stall/loss of motive power as a result of high-pressure fuel pump failures in certain model year (MY) 2019-2020 Ram 2500, 3500, 4500, and 5500 heavy duty trucks equipped with 6.7L Cummins turbodiesel engin…