2016 RAM 3500 defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2016 RAM 3500. 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…

• Steering loss due to linkage separation
  Engineering Analysis EA19004 · opened Dec 1, 2019 · closed Nov 20, 2025

  On December 17, 2018, NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened Preliminary Evaluation PE18016 to investigate alleged drag link failures in the steering system on model year (MY) 2015 and 2016 Ram 2500 trucks manufactured by FCA US, LLC (FCA). The drag link failures were found to be due to a safety defect wi…

• Steering loss due to linkage separation
  Preliminary Evaluation PE18016 · opened Dec 17, 2018 · closed Dec 12, 2019 · led to recall 19V021000

  On December 17, 2018, NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened Preliminary Evaluation (PE) 18-016 to investigate the steering system on model year (MY) 2015 and 2016 Ram 2500 manufactured by FCA US, LLC (FCA). Four complaints were received alleging separation of the drag link, a steering linkage that connec…