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December Recalls Roundup: Digital Dashboards and Software Glitches Dominate

Six recalls affecting nearly 650,000 vehicles share a common thread: the systems designed to improve driving are the ones failing

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December 19, 2025


TLDR: Ram’s digital instrument clusters go dark on 72,509 trucks, Honda’s hybrid software cuts power to 256,603 Accords, and Ford’s electric vans risk losing drive power. A pattern emerges: software complexity creates new failure modes faster than quality control can catch them.

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