Porsche Panamera 4s, Porsche Panamera 4s Executive, Porsche Panamera 4s Sport Turismo, Porsche Panamera Turbo, Porsche Panamera Turbo Executive, Porsche Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid, model years 2017 to 2018. Filed by Porsche Cars North America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 13 June 2018. 715 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (Porsche) is recalling certain 2017-2018 Panamera 4S, Panamera Turbo and Panamera Turbo Executive and 2018 Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid, Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid Executive, Panamera 4S Sport Turismo, Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo, Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid Sport Turismo, and Panamera 4S …
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
The maker's own number for this recall: AJ06. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 18V388 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 18V388 cover?
- Porsche Panamera 4S, Porsche Panamera 4S Executive, Porsche Panamera 4S Sport Turismo, Porsche Panamera Turbo, Porsche Panamera Turbo Executive, Porsche Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid, Porsche Panamera Turbo Sport Turi, model years 2017-2018.
- What is wrong with them?
- Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (Porsche) is recalling certain 2017-2018 Panamera 4S, Panamera Turbo and Panamera Turbo Executive and 2018 Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid, Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid Executive, Panamera 4S Sport Turismo, Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo, Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid Sport...
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An unexpected change to the vehicle's handling can increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Porsche will notify owners, and dealers will replace the connecting links for the anti-roll bar, free of charge. The recall began October 2, 2018. Owners may contact Porsche customer service at 1-800-767-7243. Porsche's number for this recall is AJ06.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. The maker calls this recall AJ06, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “An unexpected change to the vehicle's handling can increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 18V388 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Porsche Cars North America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Suspension:Rear |
| Reported to NHTSA | 13 June 2018 |
| Model years | 2017-2018 |
| Vehicles named | PORSCHE PANAMERA 4S, PORSCHE PANAMERA 4S EXECUTIVE, PORSCHE PANAMERA 4S SPORT TURISMO, PORSCHE PANAMERA TURBO, PORSCHE PANAMERA TURBO EXECUTIVE, PORSCHE PANAMERA TURBO S E-HYBRID, PORSCHE PANAMERA TURBO SPORT TURI |
What the notice says today
The consequence
An unexpected change to the vehicle's handling can increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Porsche will notify owners, and dealers will replace the connecting links for the anti-roll bar, free of charge. The recall began October 2, 2018. Owners may contact Porsche customer service at 1-800-767-7243. Porsche's number for this recall is AJ06.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 732 notices in the record whose component field names suspension. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 33 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Porsche Panamera 4s recalls: 10 US campaigns
- Porsche Panamera 4s Executive recalls: 4 US campaigns
- Porsche Panamera 4s Sport Turismo recalls: 4 US campaigns
- Porsche Panamera Turbo recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Porsche Panamera Turbo Executive recalls: 4 US campaigns
- Porsche Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Porsche Panamera Turbo Sport Turi recalls: 4 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 18V388, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18v388/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 18V388 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
f227e4d5 - Consequence
3bd9d91e - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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