18V021000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
2010 RAM redundant 4500
6 safety recall campaigns, 3 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 1 defect investigation (1 open), 1 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Do not drive
3 campaigns covering the 2010 RAM redundant 4500 carry NHTSA’s “park it” advisory — the federal government telling owners to stop driving the vehicle until the remedy has been performed. Whether it was performed on any particular car is not something NHTSA publishes in a form anyone can query; a franchised dealer can run the VIN and print the record in a minute, and the repair is free.
The record
Recall campaigns6
Park it3stop driving until repaired
Investigations11 open
Owner complaints1
Complaints citing a crash0
Complaints citing a fire0
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 6 of 6
16V352000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
These vehicles are equipped with certain air bag inflators assembled as part of the passenger frontal air bag modules, and used as original equipment or replacement equipment. These inflators may rupture due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to absolute humidity and temperature cycling. An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
15V313000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the driver's frontal air bag, the inflator could rupture with metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
16V739000
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:ALTERNATOR/GENERATOR/REGULATOR
If the alternator fails, the vehicle may stall without warning, increasing the risk of a crash. There is also the possibility that the alternator may short circuit, increasing the risk of a fire.
14V635000
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:DIESEL
If the connectors overheat, the fuel heater may leak fuel, increasing the risk of a fire.
13V527000
STEERING:LINKAGES:TIE ROD ASSEMBLY
A failure of the tie rod assembly may result in a loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash.
What owners report most
- 1STEERING
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2010 RAM redundant 4500s can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.