Recall · 23V060000
Chrysler recalled 4 models over electrical system
Park outside and away from buildings until repaired. NHTSA issues this where it considers the risk immediate, and it stands until the repair is done.
302,067
Vehicles covered
4
Models
12
Model years
February 9, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:WIRING:RELAYS/SOLENOIDS
- The defect
- Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) is recalling certain 2021-2023 Ram 2500, 3500, 3500 Cab Chassis, and 4500, 5500 Cab Chassis vehicles equipped with a Cummins 6.7L Turbo Diesel engine. An electrical short may occur in the heater grid relay with the ignition on or off.
- What it can cause
- An electrical short in the relay can result in an engine compartment fire with the ignition on or off, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Owners are advised to park outside and away from structures until the recall repair is complete. Dealers will replace the relay, free of charge. This will be a Phased campaign. Phase 1 will include 2023 model year vehicles. FCA US will notify dealers on or about 3/23/2023 and begin notifying owners on or about 4/5/2023. Phase 2 will include 2022 model year vehicles and Phase 3 will include 2021 model year vehicles. FCA US will notify dealers and owners on or about 4/27/2023 for Phase 2 and 5/11/2023 for Phase 3. Interim owner notification letters informing owners of the safety risk were mailed March 28, 2023. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed April 5, 2023. Owners may contact FCA US, LLC customer service at 1-800-853-1403. FCA US, LLC's number for this recall is 13A. This recall is an expansion of and supersedes recall number 21V-798.
- 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 302,067 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 96% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2021 to 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were 2 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Ram vehicles have been recalled over the electrical system 12 times before this, most recently in October 2021 as 21V798000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 7 of the 12 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 622 complaints with NHTSA, 61 of them before this campaign was filed. 148 of those name the electrical system, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in January 2021, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 19 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V288000 (power train), 25V765000 (air bags), 25V618000 (trailer hitches), 24V436000 (back over prevention).
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 February 9, 2023 as campaign 23V060000. 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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