NHTSA is opening a recall query “to determine if the scope of the recall mentioned above is correct or if another defect might exist.”
Stellantis did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Many complaints filed with NHTSA described expensive or serious safety issues or very long waits for repair parts. In January, one Florida driver said the steering wheel of a 2013 Ram 1500 locked and “would not turn left or right” and was quoted a price of more than $2,000 for parts.
Another driver was driving a 2014 Ram 1500 at 55 miles per hour on a busy road in California in February when the steering wheel “seized and became immobile. Using tremendous force I was able to get the truck through traffic and to the side of the road.”
A complaint filed in March by a 2015 Ram 1500 driver said due to a power steering assist failure, “the contact drove into a ditch which caused minor damages to the front end of the vehicle.”
