Recall · 20V512000
Chrysler recalled the DODGE Charger over back over prevention
26,361
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
August 27, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
BACK OVER PREVENTION: SENSING SYSTEM: CAMERA
- The defect
- Chrysler (FCA US LLC) is recalling certain 2018-2020 Dodge Charger Pursuit vehicles equipped with a "stealth mode." When stealth mode is selected, the backup camera rearview image will not display when the vehicle is in reverse. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 111, "Rearview Mirrors."
- What it can cause
- The lack of a back-up camera display increases the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Chrysler will notify owners, and dealers will update body control module software to disable stealth mode when the vehicle is shifted into "Reverse", free of charge. The recall began October 22, 2020. Owners may contact Chrysler customer service at 1-800-853-1403. Chrysler's number for this recall is W62.
- 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 26,361 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 85% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2018 to 2020, so the oldest vehicles on it were 2 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Dodge vehicles have been recalled over the back over prevention once before this, most recently in June 2018 as 18V398000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 299 complaints with NHTSA, 54 of them before this campaign was filed. 2 of those name the back over prevention, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in January 2018, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 2 other recalls published here: 24V198000 (air bags), 21V516000 (visibility).
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 August 27, 2020 as campaign 20V512000. 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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