Ram 1500 class action claims Hurricane engine defect causes dangerous stalling

On Aug. 25, 2026, Charlene Norberg and Tim Craig filed a class action lawsuit against FCA U.S. LLC in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

The complaint alleges FCA manufactured 2025 Ram 1500 trucks with 3.0-liter Hurricane twin-turbocharged engines with a defect that can make them stall or lose power at highway speed.

The alleged defect

The filing alleges the defect affects the engine control and powertrain control modules, the computers that manage the engine, and says it produces check engine lights, misfires, hesitation and loss of power brakes. It claims the defect can stall the trucks or drop them into limp mode, a setting that cuts engine output to protect the hardware and can leave a driver unable to hold highway speed.

The problem surfaces within the first few thousand miles, and software updates have not corrected it, the lawsuit alleges.

Two owners' experiences

Norberg claims she bought her truck near Portage, Wisconsin, in August 2024. She describes two stalls during remote start, one in December 2024 and again in April 2025. She says the dealer found nothing wrong either time, and she visited two more times in 2026 due to battery drain. Norberg alleges the last incident occurred on July 30, 2026, when the truck displayed an overheating warning on a highway near Necedah, the truck dropped into limp mode and a tow truck took it back to the dealer.

Craig says when his 2025 Ram 1500 Rebel was at roughly 1,200 miles, five months after he bought it in Bradenton, Florida, the dashboard reported the truck had shut off every safety feature. A Florida dealership kept the truck more than a month before replacing the entire brake booster without ever pinning down the cause, he alleges.

Pre-production testing, warranty claims, dealer service records and internal quality tracking all gave FCA notice of the defect before these trucks reached buyers, the complaint contends. The filing also cites more than 100 complaints to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration describing engines shutting off in traffic, plus an NHTSA investigation into similar shutdowns in 2022 Ram 1500s and Jeep Wagoneers, which the lawsuit alleges run substantially similar software.

The legal claims

The class action lawsuit brings five claims:

• Wisconsin Deceptive Trade Practices Act, a state law barring untrue or misleading statements made to sell a product
• Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, a state law covering deceptive acts and the intentional failure to disclose a material fact in a sale
• Breach of implied warranty, the principle that goods have to work for their ordinary purpose
• Fraudulent concealment, the allegation that FCA hid what it knew from buyers who would have paid less or walked away
• Unjust enrichment, a claim that a company profits unfairly at a customer's expense

What this means for Ram 1500 owners

The proposed class would include anyone who owns or leases a 2025 Ram 1500 with the Hurricane engine or who owned one and sold it. If a judge will not approve a nationwide group, the suit asks for narrower Wisconsin and Florida classes instead.

The plaintiffs seek a court order making FCA recall or permanently repair the trucks and extending the warranties plus money back for what owners overpaid, the profits FCA made on the sales and an extra penalty.

FCA has not answered in court or admitted any wrongdoing. As of this writing, there is no settlement, no claims process and no money available.