A problem with the Ram and Jeep’s 3.0-liter diesel may trigger it to stall
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by Brad Anderson
June 19, 2023 at 13:02
Stellantis is being pressured to recall and restore tens of 1000’s of Ram 1500 and Jeep Grand Cherokee fashions in the US. The explanation? These automobiles have been outfitted with a 3.0-liter diesel engine that would have a defective engine reluctor or tone wheel.
A complete of 80,629 fashions are concerned within the recall. Ram 1500 fashions constructed between the 2014 and 2019 mannequin years are essentially the most extensively impacted with some 58,393 concerned. These pickups had been constructed from June 12, 2013 to December 13, 2019. The recall additionally entails a complete of twenty-two,236 Jeep Grand Cherokee fashions from the 2014-2020 mannequin years and constructed between December 19, 2012 and October 13, 2019.
The automotive conglomerate has revealed that the magnetic sign materials on the reluctor wheel may delaminate. If that is to happen then the reluctor wheel’s capacity to supply a sign to the crankshaft place sensor can be impacted, which means the engine will lose its capacity to synchronize injector pulses and cam timing. This might trigger the engine to stall and will make it tough to restart.
Stellantis notes that house owners is not going to obtain any indication if their automobile is affected by the situation. An investigation of stall patterns and automobile historical past carried out by the corporate revealed that impacted automobiles had been constructed with its Gen II 3.0-liter diesel engine and that the tone wheel was the origin of the stalls.
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Whereas Stellantis isn’t conscious of any accidents or accidents associated to the problem, it’s conscious of 10 buyer help data, 611 guarantee claims, and three area studies from September 29, 2015 to Could 23, 2023 in all markets.
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Sellers will resolve the problem by updating the powertrain management module software program to keep up automobile propulsion by studying the camshaft place sign if this sign is ever misplaced.
