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Steering · 3 owner reports

Loss of power steering on the 2023 RAM 1500

Only 0 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 3
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.0 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $600–$2,800
What it means when it happens Critical
Rank among this year's problems 24th

When loss of power steering gets reported

There are 3 reports of loss of power steering on the 2023 RAM 1500. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 24th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $600–$2,800 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 8 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2018, at a median of 15,000 miles, and latest on the 2021 at 110,000 miles.

By volume the 2013 carries the most reports, with 117; the 2023 has 0. 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.

Median
  1. 2009 RAM 1500 loss of power steering
    no odometer readings given
    —
  2. 2013 RAM 1500 loss of power steering 77k
  3. 2014 RAM 1500 loss of power steering 80k
  4. 2015 RAM 1500 loss of power steering 87k
  5. 2016 RAM 1500 loss of power steering 70k
  6. 2017 RAM 1500 loss of power steering 58k
  7. 2018 RAM 1500 loss of power steering 13k
  8. 2019 RAM 1500 loss of power steering 17k
  9. 2020 RAM 1500 loss of power steering
    no odometer readings given
    —
  10. 2021 RAM 1500 loss of power steering 110k
  11. 2022 RAM 1500 loss of power steering
    no odometer readings given
    —
  12. 2023 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
    —
  13. 2024 RAM 1500 loss of power steering
    no odometer readings given
    —
  14. 2025 RAM 1500 loss of power steering
    no odometer readings given
    —

Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2023 RAM 1500

Parking brake failure

56 reports median 13k

Other engine problem

30 reports median 35k

Other electrical problem

25 reports median 22k

Other powertrain problem

14 reports median 99k

Other brake problem

12 reports median 12k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 3 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 3 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.

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