hi everybody this is models Dave again I'm here to talk about recalls today and the recalls I'm talking about are all the recalls from the last week relas released by the government today so uh first of all we've got Volkswagen with an improperly secured airbag inflator on the 2023 to 24 id4 that's an all electric model but I'm sure that being all electric has nothing to do with the airbag design keep in mind it's pretty much random each week what'll show up because you know they tend to show up in clumps from one automaker or another and some days GM will dominate some days Ford will dominate usually with carf fires uh some days Volkswagen or BMW or Mercedes or even Toyota they they tend to bounce around some days you have a dozen or more recalls some days you have none and I'm just talking about passenger cars now because trucks and RVs they are responsible for the largest share I think of recalls uh it's amazing how many you see especially with RVs and aftermarket tow gear so what have we got from Chrysler well sorry former Chrysler uh we've got the Jeep Gladiator and Wrangler 2018 to 24 for the Wrangler and 2020 to 24 for the Gladiator and they've got an issue where the instrument panel will go dead if we do just a little bit of research we can find out for sure so I click through here it brings up NH nhtsa goov and there's about 33,000 Vehicles included in here so a small fraction of the vehicles that they actually made because these are both very popular and uh the report says that only 1% of the vehicles that are in the recall population actually have the defect so not that many and so the 3 and 1/2 in instrument panel cluster is the only one that's affected uh suspect production began on June 88th 2019 and May 18th 2024 these are made by the Fiat Parts Company mlli FCA us or you can just call a Jeep in this case will replace any affected instrument panel computers with uh updated circuit boards so that's that now let's look at the next one okay the next one up is for the 2019 and 2021 to 2024 Ram 1,500 and the problem here is that the electronic stability control May disable itself so you suddenly have no stability control and this appears to have been a software issue it affects Get This 1.2 million trucks so that is an expensive problem and the issue is that the antiock brake module uh might have a fault a software fault and disable the whole vehicle stability control so I guess that the advice is go around corners a bit more slowly uh that's my advice not official company advice and let's see all the vehicles have this problem that have uh well and the uh problem began with production of October 31st 2017 and ended on February 14th Valentine's Day 2024 when an updated anti-lock break module was uh put into production so what do we know about this it's hard to know whose fault this is it could be coding within uh FCA or could be the component maker Continental manufacturing they're very big component maker uh it's not clear at all whose fault this might be and I'm not likely to find out in the next 5 minutes either so that's it for the recalls for this week the week uh I'm saying this September 9th 2024 and I will see you soon with more news of some sort or another