Dodge Ram. Published by Transport Canada as 1997139 on 14 August 1997. System: Structure.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the exhaust pipe may be in contact or close proximity to the outer dash panel silencer pad. It is possible that the pipe can generate sufficient heat to cause the pad material to smolder and may ignite adjacent materials resulting in a vehicle fire. Correction: The outer dash silencer pad …
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Dodge RAM in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Dodge RAM is named on 18 American notices, 8 British, 52 European and 5 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
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The British register
The European register
The Israeli register
Nothing here says any of these is this notice in another country. A model recalled in one country is often recalled in another, in different words and at a different time, and the authorities do not cross-reference each other. Reading them together is the reason this site holds more than one register.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1997139
- Recall date
- 14 August 1997
- Make
- Dodge
- Models
- Ram
- Model years
- 1997
- Vehicle class
- Light Truck & Van
- System
- Structure
- Raised as
- Safety TC
- Vehicles affected
- 1,235
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the exhaust pipe may be in contact or close proximity to the outer dash panel silencer pad. It is possible that the pipe can generate sufficient heat to cause the pad material to smolder and may ignite adjacent materials resulting in a vehicle fire. Correction: The outer dash silencer pad adjacent to the exhaust pipe will be removed and replaced by a thermal heat shield on the exhaust pipe.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 1997139.
Dodge elsewhere in this register
Dodge is named on 580 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1997159 · 19 September 1997 · Ram Wagon, Ram Van · Emissions
- 1997162 · 29 September 1997 · Grand Voyager, Grand Caravan, Town & Country · Seats And Restraints
- 1997167 · 3 October 1997 · Ram · Emissions
- 1997168 · 3 October 1997 · Viper · Emissions
- 1997171 · 8 October 1997 · Neon · Steering
- 1997122 · 19 June 1997 · Talon, Sebring, Avenger · Seats And Restraints
- 1997123 · 19 June 1997 · Cirrus, Breeze, Stratus · Structure
- 1997178 · 16 October 1997 · Ram · Emissions
The same system: Structure
800 notices in this register name Structure. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1997150 · 29 August 1997 · Swift · Structure
- 1997121 · 19 June 1997 · H3-45 Coach, H3-41 Coach, H3-45 Vip · Structure
- 1997123 · 19 June 1997 · Cirrus, Breeze, Stratus · Structure
- 1997117 · 16 June 1997 · H3-41 Coach, H3-40 Vip Coach, H3-45 Vip · Structure
- 1997104 · 28 May 1997 · Grand Caravan, Caravan, Town & Country · Structure
- 1997105 · 28 May 1997 · Sonata · Structure
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This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Dodge: 580 in the register, and 243 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1997.
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