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RAM 1500 2013technical service bulletin

Bulletin T61 · NHTSA communication 10121758 · issued Sep 17, 2017

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Air Bags
component
2013
model years
1
vehicle entries

Official summary

Customer Satisfaction Notification T61 Reprogram Occupant Restraint Controller The Occupant Restraint Controller (ORC) on about 10,000 of the above vehicles which was reprogrammed on T25 Safety Recall Campaign may have software that contains a parameter setting which disables the Event Data Recording (EDR). This can prevent the ORC from recording an air bag deployment. All the above vehicle must have the ORC reprogramed.

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What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.