Ram 2500, Ram 3500, Ram 4500, Ram 5500, model year 2026. Filed by Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) and reported to NHTSA on 18 August 2025. 2,885 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) is recalling certain 2026 Ram 3500, 3500 Cab Chassis, 2500, 4500 Cab Chassis, and 5500 Cab Chassis vehicles. The instrument panel may display an incorrect brake system warning light. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 101, …
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: 79C. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V530 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 25V530 cover?
- Ram 2500, Ram 3500, Ram 4500, Ram 5500, model year 2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) is recalling certain 2026 Ram 3500, 3500 Cab Chassis, 2500, 4500 Cab Chassis, and 5500 Cab Chassis vehicles. The instrument panel may display an incorrect brake system warning light.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An incorrect warning light can fail to alert the driver to critical safety information, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the instrument panel cluster, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 9, 2025. Owners may contact Chrysler customer service at 800-853-1403. Chrysler's number for this recall is 79C.
- 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 79C, 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 incorrect warning light can fail to alert the driver to critical safety information, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V530 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) |
| System at fault | Electrical System: Instrument Cluster/Panel |
| Reported to NHTSA | 18 August 2025 |
| Model years | 2026-2026 |
| Vehicles named | RAM 2500, RAM 3500, RAM 4500, RAM 5500 |
What the notice says today
The defect
Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) is recalling certain 2026 Ram 3500, 3500 Cab Chassis, 2500, 4500 Cab Chassis, and 5500 Cab Chassis vehicles. The instrument panel may display an incorrect brake system warning light. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 101, "Control and Displays."
The consequence
An incorrect warning light can fail to alert the driver to critical safety information, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the instrument panel cluster, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 9, 2025. Owners may contact Chrysler customer service at 800-853-1403. Chrysler's number for this recall is 79C.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 0dd81f4b3a40ff8cea00acc928afd711…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 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 25V530, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v530/
The copy quoted above hashes to 0dd81f4b3a40ff8cea00acc928afd711…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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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- 26V528: 2021-2023 Dodge Durango
- 26V510: 2023-2025 Dodge Hornet and 2023-2026 Alfa Romeo Tonale
- 26V495: 2019-2026 Ram 1500
- 26V456: 2026 Jeep Gladiator and Jeep Wrangler
- 26V421: 2026 Ram 1500
All 601 Ram 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 25V530 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
08835762 - Consequence
87f0e6f6 - 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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