Per the Detroit News:

Fiat Chrysler is recalling nearly 343,000 Ram pickup trucks worldwide because the air bags may not inflate in a crash.

The recall covers the Ram 1500 mainly from the 2019 model year, although the company has a small number of 2020 models.

Fiat Chrysler says a software error can inadvertently disable the air bags and a device that tightens seat belts before a crash. FCA doesn’t know of any crashes or injuries and says the problem is rare.

Nearly one-third of the 2019 U.S. models are still at dealers.

Most of the recalled trucks are in North America.

Owners will be notified starting July 20. Dealers will either replace computers that control the air bags or update software.

 

I hope we get fast dealer actions from this....My last truck, Dakota, took 6 months to get drivers side airbag recall taken care of and never got passengers side done. 1 year past, traded in for my new Ram 1500....

 

If that was the Takata debacle, the new RAM recall is not the same thing.

The Takata thing was a huge disaster because Takata was basically the only manufacturer that could make the replacement airbags for their original faulty ones.

Then some (most? all?) of the replacement airbags were also potentially defective, so you had to wait for another round of parts.

I think the RAM thing is just a software update.

 

Recalls have to go through a process

First either FCA or NHTSA has to receive complaints, the complaint may come from any source
They they investigate the complaints
They sort the complaints into brackets, either parts needed or a software issue, etc.

In the case of the airbags, they say it is a software issue & they have to write a software fix. That can take hours, days, weeks, :4-dontknow:

They tell the public that they will be ready to have customers come in on a date sometime in the future.
They begin with the vehicles that are not yet sold & then they allow customers to make appointments to get the recall taken care of.

In the case where the recall needs a part modification, they have to design & manufacture the parts & then they go through the customer notification the same way as above

 

I bought mine on Tuesday, and they had to do a recall, which they said was a computer update.

I didn’t ask what it was for, but they said they had several other new ones to do.

 

Yes. Rolled into my dealer and they knocked it out real quick. Its a computer flash and takes no time at all

 

Mine came in the mail today, says fix time is 20 minutes.