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2024 Ram 1500 Electrical system Problems

Complaints
28about this part
Share
36%of 77 total for the year
Median mileage
10,000miles
Trend
Too newThis model year is less than 4 years old, so a trend is not meaningful yet.

NHTSA recorded 28 complaints about the electrical system of the 2024 Ram 1500, 36% of the 77 complaints for this model year. Where a mileage was given, the median is 10,000 miles. 1 of these say a crash was involved, according to the filers.

Example complaints

Selected from NHTSA records; personal details are removed. They are consumer reports, not findings.

“The truck died had to jump it. I was driving it and it stopped itself went into park automatically. it turned on the parking brake. and then died. Took several minutes to start. Now the truck on first start up and first shift into gear there is a delay and no power to the drive train then has I’m hitting the gas it accelerates very quickly”

NHTSA complaint #11603846, filed 2024-07

“About 2 weeks ago started hearing what sounded like a earing going bearing from under the hood on driver side. I took it to the dealership yesterday, told them im pretty sure bearing going out on MGU. The dealership called me about hour and half later, the MGU and belts tensioners failed. They have no clue when parts will be in to fix under warr. I must be one of the lucky ones and caught the problem before major problems started.”

NHTSA complaint #11643293, filed 2025-02

“I was pulling out of a gas station onto the main road and the truck started shaking and died, parking brake came on and the battery right came on….1st incident Second incident I was baking out of a parking space and the same thing happened, truck started shaking and died, parking brake came on and the battery light lit up on the dash…. Dealership told me they couldn’t do anything about it because it didn’t do it while they had it…. …”

NHTSA complaint #11634986, filed 2025-01

“Truck has auto start/stop for fuel efficiency. It automatically engages on startup. Truck is prone to sudden unexpected acceleration when it is engaged. Has almost caused 3 wrecks with my truck. Dealership says they know about the problem and that I should just turn it off everytime I get in the truck. This will kill somebody some day. I forgot to turn it off today and it almost caused me to rear-end another vehicle while at a stoplight.”

NHTSA complaint #11664924, filed 2025-06

“As I was about to pull into my driveway my accelerator did not respond to braking I was going very slow about to make a left turn , less than 10mph Just As I started the left turn the wheel became unresponsive and the accelerator did not deccelerate At the same time my control panel seemed to glitch/flash I put both feet on the brake and stood on it as the truck continued forward until it struck the mailbox The truck stopped at that point but I could still hear the rear wheels turning on the road until I put it into park”

NHTSA complaint #11711580, filed 2026-01

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Electrical system: other model years

YearComplaintsShare of year
20265049%
202519152%
20242836%
20236934%
202219931%
202119829%
202016426%
201938226%
201815924%
201711012%
201619312%
201515911%
201424614%
201322718%
2009616%

Other parts of the 2024 Ram 1500

Engine
23 complaints
Other or unknown
15 complaints
Transmission and drivetrain
15 complaints
Brakes
14 complaints
Steering
7 complaints
Forward collision avoidance
6 complaints
Fuel system
6 complaints
Vehicle speed control
5 complaints
Air bags
4 complaints
Visibility (wipers, defrost, mirrors)
4 complaints
Body and structure
3 complaints
Back-over prevention (rear camera)
2 complaints

← All problems reported for the 2024 Ram 1500

About this data. Data from NHTSA (ODI) complaints, recalls, TSBs and investigations, updated Oct 28, 2026. Complaints are unverified consumer reports and may be duplicated or inaccurate.

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