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RAM 2500 2015technical service bulletin

Bulletin W17049 · NHTSA communication 10082682 · issued Aug 17, 2016

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2015
model years
1
vehicle entries

Official summary

This presentation is informing our customer that due to talc particle contamination (which is in inherent in the production environment) at contact portion on female contact between contact and element pad, nitrogen oxide (nox) sensor may exhibit an intermittent connection resulting in a drop in heater resistance and noise in the nox signal.

Vehicles covered

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.