Recall · 22V904000
Chrysler recalled 3 models over structure
1,224,078
Vehicles covered
3
Models
12
Model years
December 8, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
STRUCTURE:BODY:TAILGATE:HINGE AND ATTACHMENTS
- The defect
- Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) is recalling certain 2019-2022 Ram 1500, 2500, and 3500 pickup trucks. The tailgate may not latch properly due to misaligned tailgate strikers, which could result in the tailgate opening while driving.
- What it can cause
- An unintended tailgate opening while driving may result in a loss of unsecured cargo, possibly creating a road hazard and increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect the tailgate striker alignment to the box latch and adjust, if necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 22, 2022. Owners may contact FCA US, LLC customer service at 1-800-853-1403. FCA US, LLC's number for this recall is ZB8.
- 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.nhtsa.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 1,224,078 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 99% 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 2022, so the oldest vehicles on it were 3 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ram vehicles have been recalled over the structure 3 times before this, most recently in April 2020 as 20V207000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 12 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 4,490 complaints with NHTSA, 1,354 of them before this campaign was filed. 242 of those name the structure, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in June 2018, 4 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 48 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V495000 (seat belts), 25V824000 (air bags), 25V765000 (air bags), 25V298000 (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 December 8, 2022 as campaign 22V904000. 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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