Stellantis recalls nearly 34,000 Ram 1500 pickups over damaged wheel hub

Stellantis is recalling 33,777 Ram 1500 pickup trucks to switch a damaged beforehand instrumentality base hub encoder ring, an basal constituent successful nan vehicle's steering system. The damaged portion is nan consequence of mediocre handling anterior to assembly of nan vehicle, and not a pre-existing defect, according to a notice posted Wednesday by nan National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. 

"Some 2025 MY Ram 1500 vehicles whitethorn person been built pinch damaged beforehand instrumentality base encoder rings causing a nonaccomplishment of instrumentality velocity awesome (WSS) which whitethorn disable physics stableness power (ESC)" system, said Fiat Chrysler (now portion of Stellantis) successful documents posted by nan NHTSA.

"Failure of nan ESC strategy erstwhile involution is expected and/or relied upon tin origin a conveyance clang without anterior warning," nan car shaper said. 

The callback covers definite 2025 MY Ram 1500 vehicles manufactured betwixt Oct. 13, 2023 and Aug. 11, 2024. 

As a fix, dealers will inspect and switch nan beforehand instrumentality base hub assembly of affected trucks, free of charge, according to Chrysler. Owner notification letters are expected to beryllium mailed Dec. 19, 2024. 

Vehicle owners whitethorn interaction Fiat Chrysler Automobiles customer work astatine 1-800-853-1403. FCA's number for this callback is 97B.  

Owners whitethorn besides interaction NHTSA's information hotline astatine 1-888-327-4236 (toll-free astatine 1-800-424-9153) aliases spell to www.nhtsa.gov for further information. NHTSA's number for nan callback is 24V-794.

This is nan 2nd callback of Ram trucks since September, erstwhile Stellantis recalled more than 1.2 cardinal Ram 1500 pickups over a package rumor that besides abnormal nan vehicles physics stableness power system.

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