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Chrysler has issued a anamnesis adjustment for added than 300,000 Dodge Caravan, Dodge Grand Caravan, and Chrysler Town & Country minivans from archetypal years 2005 and 2006, in adjustment to actual a birthmark that could anticipate airbags from operating appropriately in a crash.
In a anamnesis apprehension filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the automaker explains, “The foreground blast sensors may able beneath assertive ecology altitude and acquiesce baptize to access into the sensor. This can could cause the sensor to become inoperative,” in which case, “The airbags may not accommodate added aegis in the accident of a crash.”
It should be simple to acquaint if your car is affected. If the blast sensors in a Chrysler minivan are cracked, the automaker says, an airbag admonishing ablaze should brighten on the dashboard, admonishing the buyer to seek service.
Because the birthmark is accompanying to weather, the anamnesis applies alone to cars originally sold, or currently registered, in Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Alaska and the District of Columbia.
Chrysler dealers will alter the foreground airbag sensors with a new design, chargeless of charge. Owners should apprehend to acquire a anamnesis apprehension in the mail in June, but those who ambition to accomplish their own adjustment arrange may acquaintance Chrysler at 1-800-853-1403.
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