Alfa Romeo Giulia, Alfa Romeo Stelvio, model years 2017 to 2019. Filed by Chrysler (FCA US LLC) and reported to NHTSA on 1 March 2019. 19,114 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says FCA US LLC (Alfa Romeo) is recalling certain 2018-2019 Alfa Romeo Stelvio and 2017-2019 Giulia vehicles. The Brake System Module (BSM) software may prevent the driver from disabling the Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) after the traction control system detects a specific wheel slip.
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.
Alfa Romeo's own number for this recall: V27. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 19V148 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 19V148 cover?
- Alfa Romeo Giulia, Alfa Romeo Stelvio, model years 2017-2019.
- What is wrong with them?
- FCA US LLC (Alfa Romeo) is recalling certain 2018-2019 Alfa Romeo Stelvio and 2017-2019 Giulia vehicles. The Brake System Module (BSM) software may prevent the driver from disabling the Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) after the traction control system detects a specific wheel slip.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The driver's inability to deactivate the ACC can increase the risk of crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Alfa Romeo has notified owners, and dealers will update the BSM software, free of charge. The recall began March 25, 2019. Owners may contact Alfa Romeo customer service 1-800-853-1403. The Alfa Romeo number for this recall is V27.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Alfa Romeo calls this recall V27, 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: “The driver's inability to deactivate the ACC can increase the risk of crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 19V148 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Chrysler (FCA US LLC) |
| System at fault | Forward Collision Avoidance:Adaptive Cruise Control |
| Reported to NHTSA | 1 March 2019 |
| Model years | 2017-2019 |
| Vehicles named | ALFA ROMEO GIULIA, ALFA ROMEO STELVIO |
What the notice says today
The consequence
The driver's inability to deactivate the ACC can increase the risk of crash.
The remedy
Alfa Romeo has notified owners, and dealers will update the BSM software, free of charge. The recall began March 25, 2019. Owners may contact Alfa Romeo customer service 1-800-853-1403. The Alfa Romeo number for this recall is V27.
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 46 notices in the record whose component field names forward collision avoidance. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 19V148, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/19v148/
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 19V148 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
26167fc4 - Consequence
08bf3b4a - 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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