Other body or interior problem on the 2017 RAM 1500
7 crashes 2 fires 6 injuries 15 of the 34 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 2017 RAM 1500 report other body or interior problem at a median of 20,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 15,000 miles and a quarter after 45,000 miles, from 20 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 9th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 900 miles at the tenth percentile to 55,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 54,065 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
Reports bunched into a band this tight usually mean the component has a life of its own: it goes at roughly the same mileage regardless of who owns it.
65% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 935 miles | 12,750 miles | 22,000 miles | 43,250 miles | 55,000 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, 7 a crash, 2 a fire and 6 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 11 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2021, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2025 at 90,000 miles.
By volume the 2019 carries the most reports, with 67; the 2017 has 34. 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.
On october of 2016 I purchased a 2016 ram 1500 and a month later my truck was repurchased back by chrysler because of several paint damaged including rust .on december of 2016 I tooked possession of my replacement vechile . As soon as I got home with my truck I had problems with it . The driving lights were fogged up pretty bad with a lot of condensation in it . I contacted chrysler and they immediately ordered the lights and iam waiting to make an appointment to get the new lights put on the truck . Furthermore , I also called ram customer assistant about the shifting noise my truck made when I turned on . When I turn off my truck and later on I go to turn my truck on when I put the key on the ignition and moved the key into acc position the rotary shifter make a sound like the vechile go into parking from drive . I called customer assistant and I was told that the same day I take it to the dealer to get the lights replaced have the dealer take a look at it . I asked if that was normal for my truck to sound like it was never on parking and I left it on drive and all I was told to have the dealer take a look at it . This vechile…
I bought a new 2017 ram truck.the top of the truck is made of very cheap metal it dents very easy does not take to much at all to dent the truck. A few days after getting my new truck it had a dent the size of a basket ball.the dealer sent it to a dent less paint repair shop.after they fixed it you could still tell where the dent was if the lighting was right.if parked out in the sun light it look fine.parked under my car port you could tell that there use to be a dent in that spot. Ram is using very cheap metal to make the new ram trucks.my friends thinks this happened after they ran the truck through there car wash before I left the dealer ship with my new truck.he said maybe the air they use to dry the truck off may have put the dent there.but I am not sure where the dent came from.I fill really unsafe in my new ram truck because if the truck was in a rollover it would crush us. It would crush like a tin can. I give the truck 1 out of 10 stars 1 star I fill like ever person that has bought this truck has been ripped off.these trucks are way over priced for what you get in return for your money. I would like to have a full…
When under acceleration in any gear, from 2000 to 2500 RPM there is a buzzy feeling vibration in the floor, gas pedal and steering wheel. Taken vehicle to 2 separate dealers who claim "normal characteristic", however this issue did not start occuring until the vehicle had about 1000 miles on it.
Also reported on the 2017 RAM 1500
Other engine problem
Other steering problem
Other powertrain problem
Other electrical problem
Other fuel system problem
ABS module or sensor failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 34 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 2017 RAM 1500?
Across 20 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 20,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 15,000 miles and a quarter after 45,000 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 2017 RAM 1500?
34 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.3 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