{"id":8234,"date":"2020-01-28T17:04:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T21:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=8234"},"modified":"2020-01-28T17:13:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T21:13:55","slug":"2014-2019-ram-1500-potential-engine-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=8234","title":{"rendered":"2014-2019 Ram 1500 Potential Engine Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chrysler will be contacting the owners of certain 2014-2019 Ram 1500 and 1500 Classic Pickup trucks equipped with 3.0L Eco Diesel engines because of a vehicle safety problem.  <\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"\/content\/RCLRPT-19V757-7573.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">defect report<\/a>, the Exhaust Gas Re-circulation (EGR) coolers are susceptible to thermal fatigue and could crack over time.  Th crack could allow pre-heated vaporized coolant to enter the EGR system and could combust inside the intake manifold, causing a vehicle fire. Drivers may be alerted there is a problem through a noticeable loss of coolant, lack of heater function and potentially a Malfunction Indicator Lamp.   <\/p>\n<p>Owners receiving notices will be asked to return to their dealerships to have the EGR cooler replaced.  Dealers will also inspect and replace the intake manifold as necessary.  Chrysler&#8217;s number for this recall is VB1 and the NHTSA campaign number is 19V-757.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrysler will be contacting the owners of certain 2014-2019 Ram 1500 and 1500 Classic Pickup trucks equipped with 3.0L Eco Diesel engines because of a vehicle safety problem. According to the defect report, the Exhaust Gas Re-circulation (EGR) coolers are susceptible to thermal fatigue and could crack over time. Th crack could allow pre-heated vaporized&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=8234\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1317,1436],"tags":[1149,1481,1319],"class_list":["post-8234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chrysler","category-lemon-alert","category-ram","tag-automobile-fire","tag-automobile-safety-defect","tag-chrysler-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8239,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions\/8239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}