Chrysler said Tuesday that dealers will inspect the vehicles and install trailer hitches to protect the gas tanks. The company said vehicles without hitches will get them, as will those with broken hitches or hitches that aren't from Chrysler.

Sorry about the thread title - I just had to.

Chrysler agrees to recall of Jeeps at risk of fire

Chrysler knuckled under to the Feds on the Pinto Problem. Their solution?



So pull that Draw-Tite off and sell it while you can, because the bottom is going to drop out of aftermarket hitches pretty soon.

now my thing are they just tossing on a hitch or are they also adding everything to also give it a towing package like cooling and such

Are they going to count Diesels??

they're not as flammable

and I have the Rock Lizard rear bumper with a built in hitch (and a tank skid plate)

not sure if they'd stack a hitch on there too.

The OEM hitch is a drawtight hitch.

TJ, is that 100% accurate?? With a rating of 750/7500????

Thats actually a very good question, anybody can confirm if crd would be included? And also what would happen if customer has already a hitch?

R2.0, do you have a link with the recall that you can share? The one you posted has a 404 error. The one I found

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/06/ ... risk-fire/

Doesn't specify anything about crds, but I'd guess they would include all models.

I saw the link on another website - it was a direct link to the AP story, so I'm surprised it died.

Per the AP story, if there's an aftermarket hitch installed they will replace it with a Chrysler hitch. I'm guessing that it's the hitch only; they stand to make a little money back on installing the harness "while we're in there" for a mere $400.

I just pulled my aftermarket hitch off when I did my lift pump, and I broke one of the mounting (rust seized) bolts in the process.
Think the would have to pull the broken Bolt for me? Would save me a headache!