Other body or interior problem on the 1999 Dodge RAM 2500
1 crash 1 injury 2 of the 55 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 body or interior problem gets reported
Owners of the 1999 Dodge RAM 2500 report other body or interior problem at a median of 97,500 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 67,500 miles and a quarter after 115,000 miles, from 38 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 1st most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 42,500 miles at the tenth percentile to 152,500 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 108,780 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.
3% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43,220 miles | 66,250 miles | 96,500 miles | 115,919 miles | 152,000 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 and 1 an injury are 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 $200–$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.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 17 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2009, at a median of 20,000 miles, and latest on the 1997 at 165,000 miles.
By volume the 2001 carries the most reports, with 170; the 1999 has 55. 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.
Tires manufacture by pirelli for light duty pick-up truck. The tire size is lt245/75/16 load range e-ply speed range -q style is scorpion a/t m/s. The problem is all four tires were manufacture in brazil at sem camara. The failure to outer belt steel is separating this happened at 31,153 miles. When operating the vehicle it feel like you are walking on top of foot and vibration moving at 25 to 35 MPH hour. The tires are available for review. The tire dealership (discount tire centers) had no interest in calling pirelli area service manager around the problems I was experiencing. I knew I had a disaster coming if I didn't remove all four tires quickly from the vehicle. The inter tire casing look excellent with no hot spots or heat cracks. I have following detail information on these tires. Lt 245/75/16, scorpion a/t m&s, #8-36p047, speed q, load range (e), origin brazil, 2498 36px47, DOT xl 11 8325, european ee0054589, inside tire casing bar code #3003358969, #4003037116, the thread depth averages is 7/32,6/32, 8/32,6/32 . *jb
The dashboard cracked from the windshield towards the driver. A separate crack also extended on the passenger side from the windshield towards the passenger . The cracks did not meet they were separate. Consumer was concerned that the windshield will eventually separate. *ak *nm
1) the vehicle was being used to tow a 16' flatbed trailer, with the purpose of picking up a load of hay. The trailer was not yet loaded at the time of the incident. 2) the hood of the vehicle flew open while the vehicle was being driven down a state highway, creating the potential for a serious crash. The ring into which the latch hooks came free of the vehicle, causing the failure. 3) to date, the local dealer and dodge (daimler chrysler) have declined to act on the complaint. *nm
Also reported on the 1999 Dodge RAM 2500
ABS module or sensor failure
Other brake problem
Other powertrain problem
Other steering problem
Steering rack, gear or tie rod failure
Other suspension problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 55 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 body or interior problem happen on the 1999 Dodge RAM 2500?
Across 38 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 97,500 miles. A quarter were filed before 67,500 miles and a quarter after 115,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other body or interior problem on the 1999 Dodge RAM 2500?
55 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 36 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