Detroit: Fiat Chrysler has more than 186,000 Ram trucks and tells owners to take them to dealerships because throttle pedals can get stuck on all-weather carpets in adjustable pedal trucks.
Recovery targets are some pickup trucks in the 2019 and 2020 style years supplied with factory-installed carpets, basically in North America.
The company said Friday that homeowners remove carpets for all stations if there is not enough area between them and the accelerator pedals, or if they can’t quickly reach a dealership. More than 43,000 carpets sold after the purchase of trucks are also covered.
Fiat Chrysler said a visitor reported that a carpet interfered with the accelerator pedal while a truck was moving and that the driving force might simply not cause it to slow down. The visitor stopped the truck by applying the brake. All FCA cars since 2011 have a brake-throttle override system, which cuts off the throttle and allows the brakes to triumph over acceleration if either pedal is depressed at the same time.
Fiat Chrysler said it had no reports of injured or injured. The company says about 1% of retired cars will have the problem.
Owners will be notified by mail in mid-September and distributors will modify carpets until shipments of reconfigured replacement carpets arrive.