2020 Ram 1500: brake failure

Filed Mar 19, 2026 · Electrical · 105,000 miles · HI

The contact owns a 2020 Ram 1500. The contact stated that while driving and attempting to stop, the brakes failed to operate as needed. Additionally, while hauling a trailer downhill, the trailer brakes became inoperable, and only the brakes on the vehicle were working as designed. The warning light "Trailer Brakes Disconnected" was displayed on the instrument panel. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, where it was diagnosed but no failure was found. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 105,000.

Filed Feb 18, 2022 · Acceleration, Brakes · MI · crash · 3 injuries

Truck was going at 40 MPH and power steering went out, brakes went out and truck started to accelerate resulting in a serious crash. Vehicle was totaled out but not inspected by Dodge. There was no warning of any problems with truck.

Filed Mar 13, 2021 · Brakes, Driver assistance · 500 miles · UT · crash

Purchased 2020 ram limited on july 14, 2020. Msrp was $70,355. On july 16 was traveling on I-15 when all traffic was stopped in front of me. I was traveling over 70 MPH. I applied brakes and nothing, didn't even slow me down. To avoid colliding with any of the stopped cars I left the roadway and drove onto the shoulder and into the bar ditch. Took me approx half mile to get stopped. Stopped by going up an exit. When I finally stopped, I was terrified. I checked brake pedal for obstruction and it was clear. Being an average common citizen, no matter new or used vehicle, we expect the vehicle to stop when we push on the brake pedal. When it does not it is terrifying. Vehicle had approx 500 miles at the time. Over $1700 damage to my new truck. Forward to december 29, 2020: went to my local post office, pulled into parking space, again, no brakes. However was going very slow (5 MPH or less. Crashed straight into brick building. Absolutely no response from brakes nor did the "auto stop" engage. Over $5000 damage to truck and $???? Damage to building. Forward to jan 1, 2021: pulled into parking lot, tried stopping, again no brakes. As it was a holiday and the evening, not many cars in parking lot. Was able to stop with aid of parking brake. Has been to local dealer, I told them to keep it as long as needed and drive as much as needed. They kept it for one week, said no codes on computer, drove 8 miles said nothing wrong. Have not driven for 2 months (scares me). Awaiting another dealer (next closest 250 miles away) to pick it up to check it out some more. Vehicle now has less than 4000 miles. Absolutely no support or help from ram. Been fighting with them for 2 months. Have gotten nowhere! I'm not a rookie, have bought and owned between 75-100 cars in my life. Never a problem with a dealer or a manufacturer, until now!!! See also 11397598

Filed Feb 23, 2021 · Brakes, Driver assistance · 500 miles · UT · crash

I was driving on I-15 between cedar city, ut and st george, ut. Driving approx 75mph when suddenly traffic was stopped in front of me in both lanes. Applied brakes with absolutely no results. Drove off of paved portion of highway to avoid hitting stopped cars. Vehicle had less than 500 miles on it and I had owned it for 3 days. Finally got vehicle stopped approx 3/4 mile down the road. Approx $1700 damage to vehicle. Approx 5 months later I pulled into u.s post office to park. Brakes again failed and I hit brick building at approx 5mph or less. Approx $5000 damage to vehicle and uncertain of dollar damage to p.o. Building. Three days later I pulled into ma parking lot, brakes failed again. I was able to avoid any parked cars, mainly because parking lot was almost empty. I was able to use emergency brake to stop it. The following monday I took it to stephen wade dealership. They had it for 5 days, checked for codes, drove it approx 8 miles and told me to come get it. They could find nothing. Factory customer care told me to take it back to dealership. Called for appt and was informed that due to safety problem and accident, they would not touch it. Called ram customer care back, told them dealership refused to look at it. Customer care said to take to another dealership. Next closest dealership is over 120 miles away. They said dealership has right to refuse to work on it and then told me that ram factory tech gave orders not to touch it. Now I have a ram truck with brake problems that neither local dealership or factory tech will accept to work on. I have a $70,000 msrp, 5,400 lb "paper weight". No help from factory. Truck does not have 4,000 miles and apparently the factory warranty is worthless. See also 11402784

Filed Sep 27, 2020 · Brakes · 8,200 miles · MI · crash

Turned into driveway to park truck and brakes did not work the vehicle would not stop it hit my garage and the only way to get it to stop is when I threw it into reverse so it wouldn't keep going. The automatic brakes that kick in when too close to something also did not work or kick in.

Filed Jul 27, 2020 · Airbags, Brakes · 513 miles · PA · crash

Accident happen 5/20/20. Was approaching a stopped vehicle when the brakes failed. Kept trying to apply brakes and nothing happen. Impact at approx 35 MPH. After impact the truck started to roll backwards and had to put in park to stop the truck. Tow truck drive also had issues loading on the roll back, brakes would not work. We towed to our body shop for repairs. Then was taken to faulkner dealership for edr testing. Nothing mechanical was ever done with the truck after the body work was done. Bosch released the truck to the dealership. Truck has 513 miles and little over 200 of the miles are what we drove it. Purchased with miles on it. Fiat / chrysler do not see an issue with the truck via the report. I have sent the report to a separate party that is not hired by fiat and they indicate to research page 42 of the report on the master cylinder braking system. We do not see any indication on any codes that were recovered performed by bosch. We know in fact that there were multiple brake codes and feel that the information in still in the "black box". Airbags never deployed at impact of 35 MPH frontal impact.*dt*dt*jb