Stellantis Is Recalling Over 130,000 Ram Pickups for an Engine Software Issue

Over 1.7 million Ram pickups have been recalled in the last three to four months. And it doesn’t seem as if the recalls are letting up. Yet another has been issued by the NHTSA for Ram pickups due to an engine software issue that could cause the pickups to stall.

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The issue affects the 2021 Ram 1500 equipped with the 5.7 liter Hemi eTorque engine. These were the mild hybrid versions of the big V8 engine. According to the release, these engines are equipped with powertrain control modules that are running faulty software. This software glitch may cause “an incorrect fuel mixture condition in the engine” and result in an engine stall.

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