Mopar Head Restraint, model year 9999. Filed by Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) and reported to NHTSA on 17 July 2025. 764 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) is recalling certain Mopar second-row head restraints. Please refer to FCA US, LLC's recall report for specific model numbers. The head restraints may not lock in the upright position.
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.
Mopar's own number for this recall: 21C. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25E044 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 25E044 cover?
- Mopar Head Restraint.
- What is wrong with them?
- Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) is recalling certain Mopar second-row head restraints. Please refer to FCA US, LLC's recall report for specific model numbers. The head restraints may not lock in the upright position.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A head restraint that does not lock can result in an increased risk of injury to the seat occupant during a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and replace the head restraint, as necessary, free of charge. If the head restraint is not installed in a vehicle, dealers will repurchase it. Owner notification letters were mailed September 5, 2025. Owners may contact Chrysler customer service at 800-853-1403.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Mopar calls this recall 21C, 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: “A head restraint that does not lock can result in an increased risk of injury to the seat occupant during a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25E044 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) |
| System at fault | Seats:Mid/Rear Assembly:Head Restraint |
| Reported to NHTSA | 17 July 2025 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | MOPAR HEAD RESTRAINT |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A head restraint that does not lock can result in an increased risk of injury to the seat occupant during a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and replace the head restraint, as necessary, free of charge. If the head restraint is not installed in a vehicle, dealers will repurchase it. Owner notification letters were mailed September 5, 2025. Owners may contact Chrysler customer service at 800-853-1403. Chrysler's number for this recall is 21C.
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 459 notices in the record whose component field names seats. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 44 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 25E044, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25e044/
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.
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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 25E044 on 17 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
40aee27c - Consequence
e6165a53 - 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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