Other suspension problem on the 2013 RAM 1500
1 crash 1 of the 10 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 suspension problem gets reported
Owners of the 2013 RAM 1500 report other suspension problem at a median of 35,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 20,000 miles and a quarter after 70,000 miles, from 8 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 100,000 miles. It is the 31st most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 15,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 95,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 78,909 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
50% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14,380 miles | 21,000 miles | 33,000 miles | 71,625 miles | 93,289 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 $350–$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 10 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2015, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2009 at 105,000 miles.
By volume the 2014 carries the most reports, with 28; the 2013 has 10. 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 2013 dodge ram 1500. The contact stated that while driving approximately 65 MPH, the rear axle failed and the vehicle became uncontrollable, causing the contact to crash into a divider. There were no injuries. A police report was filed. The vehicle was destroyed and was towed to salvage yard. The manufacturer was not notified of the problem. The approximate failure mileage was 41,000.
Driving home from work on highway at 11pm. Traveling 80mph on a 75mph freeway. Truck in 4 wheel drive since 8 degrees out and light snow. Rear axle seized and locked up. Lost control of rear wheels. Able to steer it to median since front axle was working. Had to be towed. Took it to dodge dealership. Had to replace both rear axles at a cost of $4063.91 using rebuilt parts. *tr
Right side tire (passenger side) showing feathering on outside of tire . It was determined that front end was out of alignment from purchase date and was aligned by dodge dealership to dodge specifications. Tire still showed excessive outside wear same side outside of tire. Tire was rotated at 9000 miles. Rotated tire now showing outside wear on front right side. Alignment was checked for alignment and found to be out of alignment and realigned. Wear persisted as tires were rotated, tires finally had to be replaced with 22, 530 miles. New tires and an alignment was performed at 22530 miles to dodge specifications tire showing wear at 700 miles alignment checked and in alignment. Now at 1945 miles right side tire is showing severe feathering and left front is show slight feathering. Dodge notified and in process of 4th alignment. . At least 4other dodge ram 1500 trucks in neighborhood are all showing same wear pattern same symptoms ... Dodge seems not to want to acknowledge problem. Have been in touch with dodge customer care have been assigned an agent and dodge dealerships from september of 2014 to present date.
Also reported on the 2013 RAM 1500
Other steering problem
Other electrical problem
Loss of power steering
Steering rack, gear or tie rod failure
Other engine problem
Other powertrain problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 10 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 suspension problem happen on the 2013 RAM 1500?
Across 8 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 35,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 20,000 miles and a quarter after 70,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other suspension problem on the 2013 RAM 1500?
10 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