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Airbags on some 2019-2020 Ram 1500 pickups might not work

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FCA

has issued an airbag-related

recall

for 295,981

Ram 1500

pickup trucks, but in this case, there is no risk of explosions. Instead, the

airbags

and the seat belt pretensioners might not work at all.

According to Ram, some

1500 trucks

from the 2019 and 2020 model years might have faulty Occupant Restraint Controllers (ORC). The flash memory in the ORCs could become corrupt, which would then interfere with the pickups’ safety features. As a result, the seat belt pretensioners and the airbags could become disabled. This is obviously a major problem, should occupants get into a crash after this occurs.

The recall was filed to

NHTSA.com

on May 31, 2019, and uses campaign number 19V407000. Starting July 20, 2019, FCA will notify owners if their trucks are affected, and

dealers

will provide the fix. The ORC will either be reprogrammed or completely replaced at no cost to the customers.

Questions can be addressed through

Chrysler’s

customer service number, 1-800-853-1403, with V61 and V71 recall reference numbers.

from Autoblog http://bit.ly/2QRLJFA