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Million-Ram and some-Jeep Recalls
Feb 4, 2025
The week’s recalls include a million-Ram monster and a li’l big Jeep issue
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hi everybody this is models Dave again
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I'm here to talk about recalls today and
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the recalls I'm talking about are all
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the recalls from the last week relas
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released by the government today so uh
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first of all we've got Volkswagen with
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an improperly secured airbag inflator on
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the 2023 to 24 id4 that's an all
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electric model but I'm sure that being
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all electric has nothing to do with the
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airbag design keep in mind it's pretty
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much random each week what'll show up
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because you know they tend to show up in
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clumps from one automaker or another and
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some days GM will dominate some days
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Ford will dominate usually with carf
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fires uh some days Volkswagen or BMW or
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Mercedes or even Toyota they they tend
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to bounce around some days you have a
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dozen or more recalls some days you have
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none and I'm just talking about
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passenger cars now because trucks and
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RVs they are responsible for the largest
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share I think of recalls uh it's amazing
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how many you see especially with RVs and
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aftermarket tow gear so what have we got
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from Chrysler well sorry former Chrysler
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uh we've got the Jeep Gladiator and
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Wrangler 2018 to 24 for the Wrangler and
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2020 to 24 for the Gladiator and they've
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got an issue where the instrument panel
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will go dead if we do just a little bit
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of research we can find out for sure so
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I click through here it brings up NH
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nhtsa
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goov and there's about 33,000 Vehicles
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included in here so a small fraction of
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the vehicles that they actually made
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because these are both very popular and
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uh the report says that only
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1% of the vehicles that are in the
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recall population actually have the
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defect so not that many and so the 3 and
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1/2 in instrument panel cluster is the
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only one that's affected uh suspect
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production began on June 88th 2019 and
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May 18th 2024 these are made by the Fiat
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Parts Company mlli FCA us or you can
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just call a Jeep in this case will
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replace any affected instrument panel
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computers with uh updated circuit boards
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so that's that now let's look at the
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next one okay the next one up is for
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the
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2019 and 2021 to 2024 Ram
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1,500 and the problem here is that the
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electronic stability control May disable
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itself so you suddenly have no stability
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control and this appears to have been a
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software issue it affects Get This
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1.2 million trucks so that is an
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expensive problem and the issue is that
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the antiock brake module uh might have a
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fault a software fault and disable the
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whole vehicle stability control
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so I guess that the advice is go around
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corners a bit more
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slowly uh that's my advice not official
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company advice and let's see all the
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vehicles have this problem that have uh
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well and the uh problem began with
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production of October 31st 2017 and
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ended on February 14th Valentine's Day
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2024 when an updated anti-lock break
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module was
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uh put into
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production so what do we know about this
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it's hard to know whose fault this is it
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could be coding within uh FCA or could
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be the component maker Continental
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manufacturing they're very big component
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maker uh it's not clear at
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all whose fault this might
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be and I'm not likely to find out in the
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next 5 minutes either so that's it for
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the recalls for this week the week uh
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I'm saying this September 9th 2024 and I
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will see you soon with more news of some
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sort or another
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