Key Safety Systems Curtain Airbag Inflator, model year 9999. Filed by Key Safety Systems, Inc. - (DBA Joyson) and reported to NHTSA on 19 November 2021. 311 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Key Safety Systems, Inc. (DBA Joyson) is recalling certain Curtain Air Bag Inflators, model HPH-A, and part numbers 2546178-AD, 2546179-AD, 2546180-AD, and 2546219-AE. The air bag inflators may have been manufactured with the incorrect amount of compressed gas, which could result in an improper air bag deployment.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Key Safety Systems's own number for this recall: QN 22774. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 21E095 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 21E095 cover?
- Key Safety Systems Curtain Airbag Inflator.
- What is wrong with them?
- Key Safety Systems, Inc. (DBA Joyson) is recalling certain Curtain Air Bag Inflators, model HPH-A, and part numbers 2546178-AD, 2546179-AD, 2546180-AD, and 2546219-AE.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An air bag that deploys improperly can increase the risk of injury in a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Joyson will work with the affected vehicle manufacturers to replace the curtain air bag module, free of charge. Ram owners may contact FCA US, LLC customer service at 1-800-853-1403. Joyson's number for this recall is QN 22774.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Key Safety Systems calls this recall QN 22774, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “An air bag that deploys improperly can increase the risk of injury in a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 21E095 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Key Safety Systems, Inc. - (DBA Joyson) |
| System at fault | Air Bags:Side/Window:Curtain |
| Reported to NHTSA | 19 November 2021 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | KEY SAFETY SYSTEMS CURTAIN AIRBAG INFLATOR |
What the notice says today
The consequence
An air bag that deploys improperly can increase the risk of injury in a crash.
The remedy
Joyson will work with the affected vehicle manufacturers to replace the curtain air bag module, free of charge. Ram owners may contact FCA US, LLC customer service at 1-800-853-1403. Joyson's number for this recall is QN 22774.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 846 notices in the record whose component field names air bags. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 46 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 21E095, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/21e095/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
Other Key Safety Systems notices we hold
- 25E013: one side curtain air bag, part number 2009086-3
- 22E011: Curtain Air Bag Inflators, part numbers 2557843AA and 2553433AC
- 21E080: HPH-A curtain air bag inflators
All 4 Key Safety Systems campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 21E095 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
bf7f5ee1 - Consequence
d253397a - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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