Just got an email from Mopar parts saying they’re cancelling my order for the AB relay because it is back ordered with no ETA. So that tells me, yes, failed A or AA relays get an AB and there are no ABs. God help you if your truck goes in and fails the temperature test. You won’t have a vehicle for 6 months.
Dealers may not be allowed to do it, but they could disconnect a failed AA relay.
I think I remember hearing years ago on a different brand that if a safety recall could be completed, the dealer could not let the vehicle go for liability reasons.
Jimmy posted the quote below earlier in the thread. If that is correct it seems a dealer would have to let you drive away even if your AA failed and they did not have a replacement.
The last quote below from
the NHTSA site says there are 3 options. Repair, Replace, or Refund. But that page does not specifically say what a dealer can do if they agree to replace a part but do not have the part available. I could find nothing that says a dealer
can not hold your vehicle until parts are available.
Hold on, before misinformation here gets so out of control that people will be scared to even see if they have a defective relay- There is no law requiring the owner of a recalled vehicle to have the recall completed, and nobody, including the dealer, can confiscate a vehicle that you (or the bank, or whoever holds your title) own for not being able to complete the recall. Federally speaking, it is illegal for a dealer to SELL a brand new vehicle that has a recall, and it is not illegal to sell a used vehicle with an open recall. But no, the dealer can not hold your vehicle if you bring it in and they can’t perform the repair until parts are in.
From NHTSA
Once a safety-defect determination is made, the law gives the manufacturer three options for correcting the defect – repair, replacement, or refund.
I wonder what would happen if you had your relay disconnected and did not want the recall addressed until parts were available? If you had to get an oil/filters change done could you tell the dealer only to do the maintenance and not address the recall. Or do they have not choice but to do the recall if an impacted truck comes in for maintenance even with the relay disconnected?
I guess we won't really know what happens until several people report here about AA relays that fail the temperature test and see if the dealers are holding the vehicles, disconnecting the relays, or leaving them connected and releasing the truck back to the owner. I have not seen any posts yet that a relay failed the temperature test.