Recall · 26V290000
Chrysler recalled the JEEP Cherokee over power train
61,711
Vehicles covered
1
Model
5
Model years
May 7, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
POWER TRAIN
- The defect
- Chrysler (FCA US LLC) is recalling certain 2019-2023 Jeep Cherokee vehicles. The power transfer unit (PTU) may fail.
- What it can cause
- A failed PTU may result in a loss of drive power or vehicle rollaway, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
- What the dealer does
- The remedy is currently under development. Interim owner notification letters explaining the safety risk are expected to be mailed June 25, 2026. Additional letters will be sent once the final remedy becomes available. Owners may contact FCA customer service at 1-800-853-1403. FCA's number for this recall is 40D. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will become searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning May 14, 2026.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 61,711 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 90% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2019 to 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were 7 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Jeep vehicles have been recalled over the power train 37 times before this, most recently in September 2025 as 25V574000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 4 of the 5 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 2,106 complaints with NHTSA, 1,894 of them before this campaign was filed. 1,056 of those name the power train, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in May 2018, 8 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 6 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V011000 (power train), 24V516000 (air bags), 24V239000 (exterior lighting), 21V310000 (power train).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) with NHTSA on May 7, 2026 as campaign 26V290000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes . Data last checked 2026-05-07.
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