Recall
Ram 1500 tire pressure sensor recall: 16,385 potentially affected
Sensors on certain 2026 Ram 1500 vehicles may fail to detect low tire pressure; dealers will inspect and replace them as necessary, free of charge, and owner letters are expected Oct. 27, 2026.
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Key numbers
Units potentially affected as filed with NHTSA
- Crash risk
- Model year
- 2026
- NHTSA campaign
- 26V-623
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Is your car affected?
For open (unrepaired) recalls on your car, enter its 17-character VIN in NHTSA's lookup by VIN.
Recall at a glance
- Vehicles
- Certain 2026 Ram 1500
- Problem
- Tire pressure monitoring system sensors may fail to detect low tire pressure and/or fail to light the TPMS warning light as intended
- Safety standard
- Vehicles fail to comply with FMVSS No. 138, "Tire Pressure Monitoring System"
- Risk
- A TPMS warning light that fails to notify the driver of low tire pressure increases the risk of a crash
- Remedy
- Dealers will inspect and replace the tire pressure sensors, as necessary, free of charge
- Owner letters
- Expected to be mailed Oct. 27, 2026
- NHTSA campaign
- 26V-623 (26V623000)
- FCA US recall number
- 51D
- Report received by NHTSA
- Sept. 29, 2026
- FCA US customer service
- 1-800-853-1403
Source for every row: source 1.
What to do
Watch for a letter from FCA US. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed Oct. 27, 2026.
Dealers will inspect and replace the tire pressure sensors, as necessary, free of charge. The NHTSA record does not list this as an over-the-air update.
You can call FCA US customer service at 1-800-853-1403. FCA US's number for this recall is 51D.
The NHTSA record does not carry a "park it" or "park outside" advisory for this recall.
If you are shopping for a used 2026 Ram 1500, run its VIN through a recall check before you buy.
What happened
Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) is recalling certain 2026 Ram 1500 vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) lists 16,385 vehicles as potentially affected.
According to the NHTSA recall record, the tire pressure monitoring system sensors may fail to detect low tire pressure. They may also fail to light the tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) warning light as intended.
Because of this, the record says, these vehicles fail to comply with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 138, "Tire Pressure Monitoring System."
A TPMS warning light that fails to notify the driver of low tire pressure increases the risk of a crash, the record says.
NHTSA received the report on Sept. 29, 2026, and lists it as campaign 26V-623 (26V623000).
Is my car affected?
Enter your 17-character VIN in our free recall check at /vin-check/ or on NHTSA.gov. NHTSA's record says VINs in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on Oct. 6, 2026.
The recall covers certain 2026 Ram 1500 vehicles, not every one. A VIN check tells you for sure.
For this recall, the record says dealers will do the inspection and any needed sensor replacement free of charge.
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Sources
All accessed 2026-10-12.
Corrections
- : This page showed a "Park outside" badge in error. NHTSA's record for this recall has no park-outside advisory, as the article said. The badge came from our page template, not the source, and has been removed.
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