1981 Dodge B250 Problems
Owner-reported complaints filed with NHTSA, grouped by component
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What this page shows
Everything below is an owner-reported complaint submitted to NHTSA about the 1981 Dodge B250, grouped by the component NHTSA recorded on the report. These are not confirmed defects, and they are not recalls. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a category with more reports in it is not evidence that a part is defective.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Reports by component
Ranked by how many owner reports name each component category
- Tires & wheels1100.0%
Percentages are of component mentions. A single complaint can name more than one component, so these do not sum to the total complaint count.
Each component in detail
What the reports in each category say, in the owners' own words
Tires & wheels
Reports naming tires, wheels, hubs, or the tire-pressure monitoring system.
From owner reports, verbatim
I HAD 3 TIRE FAILURE IN A SHORT TIME JULY 28 THROUGH AUG 15, 1999. THE TIRES WERE PURCHASED FROM PEP BOYS. CORNELL IS A HOUSE BRAND. THE FIRST TWO TIRES TO FAIL WERE ALMOST BRAND NEW FRONT TIRES. ONE CAME APART (THE THREAD PEELED OFF) WITH ABOUT 1,500 MILES ON IT MAX. WHEN I GOT HONE 2,000 MILES LATER I GOT IT REPLACED AT PEP BOYS MELBOURNE, FL BUT I HAD TO PAY. ON THE WAY HOME FROM PEP BOYS THE VAN HANDLED BADLY AND I THOUGHT THE NEW TIRE HAD A PROBLEM. IT TURNED OUT THE OTHER FRONT TIRE WAS ABOUT TO LOSE IT'S TREAD AND THEY MADE ME PAY FOR A REPLACEMENT OF THAT TIRE (THIS ONE HAD ABOUT 3,500 MILES ON IT). A FEW WEEKS LATER I NOTICED ONE OF THE REAR TIRES WAS BEGINNING TO HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM (IT HAD A LOSE PART ON THE THREAD). I REPLACED THIS TIRE WITH MY SPARE AND LEFT IT AS A SPARE. THE THIRD FAILED TIRE HAD SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 10,000 AND 15,000 MILES ON IT. THE THIRD TIRE WAS ABOUT A YEAR OR SO OLD WHILE THE FIRST TWO TIRES WERE ONLY A COUPLE OF MONTHS OLD. PEP BOYS HAS REFUSED (I'VE WRITTEN AND E-MAILED THEIR CORPORATE HQ SEVERAL TIMES) TO DO ANYTHING FOR ME ABOUT THE BAD TIRES (THEY JUST IGNORED ALL CONTACTS). I INQUIRED OF THE, THE NAME OF THE MANUAFCTURER BUT THEY HAVE IGNORED THOSE REQUESTS ALSO. THE DEFECTIVE 850'S WERE REPLACED BY CORNELL 900'S. THE PLACE THAT DID THE REPLACEMENT TOLD ME THEY NO LONGER SOLD THE 850'S. WITH ALL OF THESE PROBLEMS I SUSPECT THEY KNEW ABOUT THE TIRES BEING DEFECTIVE AND QUITELY STOPPED SELLING THEM WITHOUT CONTACTING THOSE OF US WHO HAD THESE DANGERIOUS TIRES. THE REASON THE TWO FRONT TIRES WERE NEW WAS BECAUSE THEY WERE REPLACEMENTS FOR A PAIR OF ABOUT 10,000 MILE OLD CORNELL 850'S THAT HAD BEGUN TO DISTORT (INDENTATIONS AND BULDGES IN THE SIDE WALLS, ESPECIALLY ON THE INSIDE BLACK WALL). IN THAT CASE I ONLY PAID AN ADJUSTMENT BASED UPON THE USAGE. I AM UNSURE IF THE TWO TYPES OF FAILURES ARE RELATED. WHAT I DO KNOW IS IT WAS VERY FORTUNIATE THAT WHEN THE FIRST TIRE CAME APART AT 70 MPH ON I 10 THAT I DIDN'T GET INTO AN ACC
Too few reports in this category for a page of its own — they appear in the full complaint list.
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
Elsewhere on this vehicle
Data sources
- NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation — owner-reported complaints and the components recorded on them
Data on this page last refreshed .