Braun Ram Promaster, model years 2023 to 2024. Filed by Braun Corporation and reported to NHTSA on 20 March 2026. 13 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Braun Corporation (Braun) is recalling certain 2023-2024 Ram ProMaster vehicles. The installed window may have the wrong type of glass for an emergency exit. As such, these vehicles fails to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 226, "Ejection Mitigation."
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.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 26V171 cover?
- Braun Ram Promaster, model years 2023-2024.
- What is wrong with them?
- Braun Corporation (Braun) is recalling certain 2023-2024 Ram ProMaster vehicles. The installed window may have the wrong type of glass for an emergency exit.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A noncompliant emergency exit can increase the risk of ejection and injury during a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Dealers will replace the window, free of charge. Interim owner notification letters explaining the safety risk were mailed by May 26, 2026. Owners will receive another notice once remedy becomes available. Owners may contact Braun's customer service at 1-800-488-0359.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
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 noncompliant emergency exit can increase the risk of ejection and injury during a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V171 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Braun Corporation |
| System at fault | Structure:Emergency:Escape/Egress/Exit |
| Reported to NHTSA | 20 March 2026 |
| Model years | 2023-2024 |
| Vehicles named | BRAUN RAM PROMASTER |
What the notice says today
The defect
Braun Corporation (Braun) is recalling certain 2023-2024 Ram ProMaster vehicles. The installed window may have the wrong type of glass for an emergency exit. As such, these vehicles fails to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 226, "Ejection Mitigation."
The consequence
A noncompliant emergency exit can increase the risk of ejection and injury during a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the window, free of charge. Interim owner notification letters explaining the safety risk were mailed by May 26, 2026. Owners will receive another notice once remedy becomes available. Owners may contact Braun's customer service at 1-800-488-0359.
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 1191bad12ee9a9cdc2dd466893cd6821…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 901 notices in the record whose component field names structure. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 26V171, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v171/
The copy quoted above hashes to 1191bad12ee9a9cdc2dd466893cd6821…. 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.
Other Braun notices we hold
- 26V434: 2026 Chevrolet Traverse
- 26V358: 2023-2026 Chrysler Pacifica and Voyager
- 26V357: 2026 Ram ProMaster
- 26V296: 2023-2026 Chrysler Pacifica
- 26V280: 2026 Ram ProMaster
- 25V759: 2021-2025 Chrysler Pacifica, 2022-2025 Toyota Sienna, and 2022-2026 Honda Odyssey
- 25V381: 2021-2025 Chrysler Pacifica, 2022-2025 Voyager, and 2024-2025 Toyota Sienna Hybrid
- 24V888: 2024 Chrysler Pacifica and Voyager
All 33 Braun 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 26V171 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
92c480d7 - Consequence
d88184eb - 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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