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The
error code could temporarily disable the side air bag and seat
belt pretensioner deployment during a vehicle rollover spurred
by a significant underbody impact, such as striking onroad
debris or driving off-road, the Italian-American automaker said.
The company will reprogram computer modules in the affected
vehicles to address this error.
The recall covers 1.02 million 2013-16 Ram 1500 and 2500
pickups, and 2014-2016 Ram 3500 pickups in the United States,
216,007 vehicles in Canada; 21,668 in Mexico; and 21,530 outside
North America, the automaker said.
Fiat Chrysler said the recall would begin in late June.
In the event of the software error code, the problem could
temporarily be addressed by turning the vehicle off and then on,
the company said.
The automaker told the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration it began investigating the issue in December
after it received notice of a suit involving a 2014 Ram 1500 in
which the airbag failed to deploy in a rollover crash.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Bernadette Baum)
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