Recall · 20V208000
Chrysler recalled 2 models over visibility
425,599
Vehicles covered
2
Models
4
Model years
April 9, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:LINKAGES
- The defect
- Chrysler (FCA US LLC) is recalling certain 2019-2020 Ram 1500, 1500 Classic and Jeep Compass vehicles. The windshield wiper arm or arms may loosen, possibly causing the wipers to not operate properly and reduce the driver's visibility in certain weather conditions.
- What it can cause
- Reduced visibility increases the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Chrysler will notify owners, and dealers will tighten the wiper nuts, free of charge. The recall began April 27, 2020. Owners may contact Chrysler customer service at 1-800-853-1403. Chrysler's number for this recall is W25.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 425,599 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 97% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2019 to 2020, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Jeep vehicles have been recalled over the visibility 3 times before this, most recently in August 2015 as 15V509000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 4 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 2,550 complaints with NHTSA, 299 of them before this campaign was filed. 22 of those name the visibility, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in June 2018, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 18 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V495000 (seat belts), 25V824000 (air bags), 25V298000 (air bags), 25V010000 (air bags).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Chrysler (FCA US LLC) with NHTSA on April 9, 2020 as campaign 20V208000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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