1.27 Million Ram 1500s Recalled Because the Rear Seat Belt Anchors May Never Have Been Attached

Stellantis' Chrysler unit is recalling 1,271,294 Ram 1500 pickups in the United States because the seat belt buckle anchors for the second row may not have been properly attached to the truck's body structure when it was built. The recall covers the 2019 through 2026 model years — effectively the entire current generation of the truck — and was filed with federal regulators on July 30 under NHTSA campaign number 26V-495, carried internally as Mopar recall 67D.

The U.S. figure is the largest slice of a global action covering roughly 1.5 million trucks. Stellantis has also flagged 156,138 vehicles in Canada, 15,088 in Mexico, and about 75,000 more spread across other export markets.

Two specific positions are involved: the second-row center seat and the second-row driver's side. Those are the belts whose buckle side anchors to the body of the truck rather than to the seat. If that anchor was never correctly fastened, the belt has nothing solid to pull against — in a crash, the restraint cannot transfer the occupant's load into the structure the way it was designed to, and a rear-seat passenger can be thrown forward.

Because the condition is an assembly problem rather than a part that wears out, there is no symptom an owner can drive around and notice. Stellantis has not said how many of the recalled trucks actually have a loose anchor; an inspection is the only way to tell. In the meantime, the company's guidance for owners who regularly carry people in the back is blunt — use the passenger-side second-row seat until the truck has been checked.

Stellantis says it is aware of one injury that may be connected to the defect. No fatalities have been linked to it.

The fix is free and does not involve replacement parts. Dealers will inspect both anchors and correctly secure them to the body structure if they are found improperly attached. Owner notification letters are going out by mail, but anyone who does not want to wait can run their VIN through Stellantis' recall lookup at recalls.mopar.com or through NHTSA's tool at nhtsa.gov/recalls.

The scale here is a function of how long this truck has been in production and how well it sells. The current DT-generation Ram 1500 launched for 2019 and is still on sale as a 2026 model, and the recall reaches from the first year of that run to the current one — an eight-model-year sweep of one of the highest-volume vehicles in the country.