Recall · 20V513000
Chrysler recalled the RAM 1500 over vehicle speed control
160,229
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
August 27, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:ACCELERATOR PEDAL
- The defect
- Chrysler (FCA US LLC) is recalling certain 2019-2020 Ram 1500 vehicles equipped with adjustable pedals. In certain accelerator pedal positions, the floormats may prevent the pedal from returning to the normal resting (idle) position.
- What it can cause
- A pedal that does not return as expected may affect the vehicle's deceleration, thereby increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Chrysler will notify owners, and dealers will modify the driver's floormat to remove the potential for pedal interference, free of charge. The recall began September 10, 2020. Owners may contact FCA US LLC customer service at 1-800-853-1403. Chrysler's number for this recall is W63.
- 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 160,229 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 94% 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.
Ram vehicles have been recalled over the vehicle speed control once before this, most recently in February 2014 as 14V032000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 2,086 complaints with NHTSA, 287 of them before this campaign was filed. 64 of those name the vehicle speed control, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in June 2018, 2 years 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 August 27, 2020 as campaign 20V513000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes . Data last checked 2020-08-27.
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