Ram 2500, Ram 3500, Ram 4500, Ram 5500, model years 2017 to 2018. Filed by Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) and reported to NHTSA on 27 November 2024. 317,630 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) is recalling certain 2017-2018 Ram 2500 Pickup, Ram 3500 Pickup, 3500 Cab Chassis, 4500 and 5500 Cab Chassis vehicles. The hydraulic control unit (HCU) may fail, which can cause the anti-lock brake (ABS), electronic stability control (ESC), and traction control systems to fail.
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.
Ram's own number for this recall: C4B. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 24V896 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 24V896 cover?
- Ram 2500, Ram 3500, Ram 4500, Ram 5500, model years 2017-2018.
- What is wrong with them?
- Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) is recalling certain 2017-2018 Ram 2500 Pickup, Ram 3500 Pickup, 3500 Cab Chassis, 4500 and 5500 Cab Chassis vehicles.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loss of anti-lock brakes, electronic stability control, or traction control can increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Dealers will replace the brake HCU, or replace the HCU motor, free of charge. Interim notification letters, notifying owners of the safety risk, were mailed January 9, 2025. Some owner notification letters were mailed January 9, 2025.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Ram calls this recall C4B, 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: “A loss of anti-lock brakes, electronic stability control, or traction control can increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 24V896 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) |
| System at fault | Service Brakes, Hydraulic:Antilock/Traction Control/Electronic Limited Slip:Control Unit/Module |
| Reported to NHTSA | 27 November 2024 |
| Model years | 2017-2018 |
| Vehicles named | RAM 2500, RAM 3500, RAM 4500, RAM 5500 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A loss of anti-lock brakes, electronic stability control, or traction control can increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the brake HCU, or replace the HCU motor, free of charge. Interim notification letters, notifying owners of the safety risk, were mailed January 9, 2025. Some owner notification letters were mailed January 9, 2025. The remaining owner notification letters will be mailed at a future date, anticipated October 2026. Owners may contact FCA customer service at 1-800-853-1403. FCA's number for this recall is C4B.
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 583 notices in the record whose component field names service brakes, hydraulic. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 37 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Ram 2500 recalls: 64 US campaigns
- Ram 3500 recalls: 61 US campaigns
- Ram 4500 recalls: 40 US campaigns
- Ram 5500 recalls: 41 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 24V896, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/24v896/
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.
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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 24V896 on 17 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
9d825196 - Consequence
159ca003 - 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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