Fiat Recall - Steering Knuckles (again?)

[VXman]

I remember reading about this earlier this year and did some searching then and decided my 2020/21 van wasn't affected.

Got this letter today. It's ok though, I've only done 7500 miles in it in the last 7 months!

 

[cliffanger]

Being a girl, When I read the title, I thought you meant those weird bumps on the steering wheel…

 

[TeamBandS]

Just out of interest, why have Fiat not had to do a recall (and fix) on the airbag failures. Fully understand a steering component fault and need to fix but a non working airbag must also be a safety issue. On my old Honda Jazz I had a recall for a faulty window swing when it was was out of warrantee.

 

[VXman]

Just out of interest, why have Fiat not had to do a recall (and fix) on the airbag failures. Fully understand a steering component fault and need to fix but a non working airbag must also be a safety issue. On my old Honda Jazz I had a recall for a faulty window swing when it was was out of warrantee.

Is there an issue with airbags?

 

[TeamBandS]

Yes! Multiple members have had to replace the computer (ECU) that operates the airbags. An expensive fix and at the moment a difficult fix as the part in question has been difficult to get due to world wide shortage of components. There have been numerous threads in Fun, I believe most have the Airbag ECU in the thread title and as always, there is a wealth of information that has been shared - worth some reading in case you are unfortune to suffer this issue. This is a Fiat problem and common to all MHs that use the Fiat engine regardless of MH manufacturer.

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