Other speed control problem on the 2007 Dodge RAM 1500
1 crash 1 of the 9 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other speed control problem gets reported
Owners of the 2007 Dodge RAM 1500 report other speed control problem at a median of 65,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 10,000 miles and a quarter after 100,000 miles, from 9 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 78,000 miles. It is the 23rd most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 5,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 170,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 164,718 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
44% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,300 miles | 11,000 miles | 63,218 miles | 98,000 miles | 168,018 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 1 a crash is mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $250–$2,000 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 16 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 1997, at a median of 40 miles, and latest on the 2000 at 135,000 miles.
By volume the 2012 carries the most reports, with 18; the 2007 has 9. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
Tl*the contact owns a 2007 dodge ram 1500. While driving at various speeds, the contact experiences difficulty opening the rear window. The handle is located behind the driver's side head rest. In addition, the accelerator pedal is too close to the brake pedal, which occasionally causes the contact to accelerate when he is actually trying to brake. On one occasion, he crashed into his home due to the pedals being so close together. No one was injured during the crash and the vehicle has not been diagnosed by the dealer. The current mileage was 2,990 and failure mileage was 500. Updated 07/29/08 *bf updated 07/29/08
Tl*the contact owns a 2007 dodge ram 1500. On approximately six occasions, while driving at any speed, the vehicle surged forward without warning. The contact has to depress the brake pedal and hold it down. The RPM's increased and the vehicle felt as if it were attempting to get away. The vehicle has to be completely shut off in order for it to stop. The esp indicator also illuminated on the instrument panel. The vehicle has been to a dealer six times for this failure without any resolution. The current mileage was 26,529 and failure mileage was 4,000. Updated 11/17/08 *cn updated 11/24/08. *jb
At times, when in drive and when pressure is applied to brake vehicle suddenly accelerates forward for no reason requiring more pressure on brake until acceleration stops, but not before moving forward. This could be 3-5 feet depending how sudden the acceleration occurred. This has happened several times, with the last occurring where I hit the front end of our other SUV. This scares us because what if a person is in front of us, etc... We have reported this to our dodge service and they told us that they have no reports of this. They also asked us if we could have had our foot on the accelerator? To me the way the accelerator pedal and brake pedal is it is almost impossible for this to happen in a automatic transmission type vehicle. This has happened at least 3 time prior to this with this vehicle. It also happened in a 2005 durango we had a few times. *tr
Also reported on the 2007 Dodge RAM 1500
Airbag inflator rupture
Other suspension problem
Steering rack, gear or tie rod failure
Other steering problem
Tail light, brake light or signal failure
Other engine problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 9 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other speed control problem happen on the 2007 Dodge RAM 1500?
Across 9 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 65,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 10,000 miles and a quarter after 100,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other speed control problem on the 2007 Dodge RAM 1500?
9 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed