Wheels: lugs/nuts/bolts/studs (Gorilla)
Vehicle equipment recall 12E-049. NHTSA received Gorilla Automotive Products’s report on Oct 25, 2012.
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The short answer
NHTSA received Gorilla Automotive Products’s report on Oct 25, 2012. Copied from NHTSA on Oct 20, 2026.
Every line below is in NHTSA’s own words, with its source beside it.
What’s wrong with it?
The loose fitting of the lug nuts to the steel wheel may allow the wheel to detach from the vehicle, which may increase the risk of a vehicle crash.
Gorilla Automotive Products is recalling certain aftermarket lug nuts with part numbers; 66198DR, 66198BDR, 66197DR, and 66197BDR, sold for use as replacement equipment on certain model year 2002-2011 Dodge Ram vehicles.
The problem exists only with Ram vehicles equipped with steel spare wheels.
The lug nuts, designed for use with aluminum wheels, may not adequately retain a steel spare wheel because they do not fully tighten against the wheel.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- NHTSA’s part: Wheels: lugs/nuts/bolts/studs.
What should you do?
Gorilla will notify owners and distributors and installers will replace the affected lug nuts on vehicles equipped with steel spare wheels free of charge. Until the replacement lug nuts are available (in February 2013), Gorilla will send five lug nuts that will work properly with a spare steel wheel to identified purchasers. Subsequently, when the remedy lug nuts become available, purchasers will be asked to bring their vehicle to the dealer where the recalled lug nuts were purchased to have the dealer install and properly torque 20 new lug nuts. The recall is expected to begin in November 2012. Owners may contact Gorilla Automotive Products at 1-323-585-2852.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- How to reach the firm: This recall applies to aftermarket lug nuts manufactured by Gorilla Automotive Products used on Dodge Ram vehicles equipped with steel spare wheels.Dodge Ram vehicles equipped with aluminum spare wheels are not affected.Chrysler/Dodge is not conducting this recall.Customers may contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY: 1-800-424-9153); or go to http://www.safercar.gov.
Which ones are recalled?
NHTSA counts 17,650 items potentially involved, across everything this recall names.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- Gorilla LUG NutsBuilt from Nov 14, 2011 to Aug 20, 2012
Who is recalling it?
- Made by Gorilla Automotive Products.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
What the record doesn’t say
- NHTSA’s recall file doesn’t say whether anyone was hurt.
- Which ones, by part or lot: the recall’s report on NHTSA’s site gives them where the maker did; this file gives part numbers only where its maker listed them.
- How many have been returned or fixed isn’t in the notice.
Hearth Record wrote these lines.
Sources
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Recalls flat file (FLAT_RCL_POST_2010).
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Vehicle, car seat, tire and vehicle equipment recalls, owner complaints and crash ratings are from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Copied on Oct 20, 2026.