Stellantis has a repair prepared for 2017-2018 Chrysler Pacifica plug-in hybrid fashions that had been recalled in February.
The minivan was recalled as a result of potential danger of a hearth even when the car was turned off. The Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration (NHTSA) insisted that house owners park their automobiles outdoors and away from different automobiles and buildings. On the time the recall was issued, the automotive producer was unaware of the basis trigger.
Quick ahead to October and Chrysler has readied an replace to the high-voltage battery pack management module software program that may resolve the problem.
The carmaker says that house owners of impacted automobiles ought to proceed to park them outdoors and away from different automobiles and constructions, even when the car is turned off, till the restore is accomplished.
The recall entails some 16,741 fashions from the 2017 and 2018 mannequin years that had been manufactured between August 12, 2016 and August 7, 2018.
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Chrysler’s Technical Security and Regulatory Compliance group opened an investigation into a possible problem on August 31, 2021 after detecting a attainable pattern of fires in sure Pacifica PHEV fashions. By February 2022, the automaker grew to become conscious of 12 area studies associated to the problem and whereas it stays unaware of any accidents of accidents brought on by the defect, it determined to problem the recall in February anyway.
This isn’t the primary time the Pacific PHEV has been recalled attributable to a fireplace danger. An analogous recall was issued in 2020 for 27,634 automobiles from the 2017-2020 mannequin years as a result of danger of a hearth associated to the 12-volt battery system.