Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe, Jeep Wrangler 4xe, model years 2023 to 2025. Filed by Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) and reported to NHTSA on 6 November 2025. 117,904 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) is recalling certain 2023-2025 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4XE and 2024-2025 Jeep Wrangler 4XE Plug-In Hybrid Electric (PHEV) vehicles. Debris inside the engine may cause engine failure, which can result in a loss of drive power and/or an engine compartment fire.
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.
Jeep's own number for this recall: 78C. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V766 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 25V766 cover?
- Jeep Grand Cherokee 4Xe, Jeep Wrangler 4Xe, model years 2023-2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) is recalling certain 2023-2025 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4XE and 2024-2025 Jeep Wrangler 4XE Plug-In Hybrid Electric (PHEV) vehicles. Debris inside the engine may cause engine failure, which can result in a loss of drive power and/or an engine compartment fire.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loss of drive power increases the risk of a crash, and a vehicle fire can increase the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will install a software update and replace the block or engine as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed beginning May 7, 2026. Additional letters will be sent once the final remedy is available. 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. Jeep calls this recall 78C, 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 loss of drive power increases the risk of a crash, and a vehicle fire can increase the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V766 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) |
| System at fault | Engine |
| Reported to NHTSA | 6 November 2025 |
| Model years | 2023-2025 |
| Vehicles named | JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE 4XE, JEEP WRANGLER 4XE |
What the notice says today
The defect
Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) is recalling certain 2023-2025 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4XE and 2024-2025 Jeep Wrangler 4XE Plug-In Hybrid Electric (PHEV) vehicles. Debris inside the engine may cause engine failure, which can result in a loss of drive power and/or an engine compartment fire.
The consequence
A loss of drive power increases the risk of a crash, and a vehicle fire can increase the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will install a software update and replace the block or engine as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed beginning May 7, 2026. Additional letters will be sent once the final remedy is available. Owners may contact Chrysler customer service at 800-853-1403. Chrysler's number for this recall is 78C. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning November 13, 2025.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 79d08bef6bc242d2db6e460a9e17925a…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 116 notices in the record whose component field names engine. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 50 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 25V766, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v766/
The copy quoted above hashes to 79d08bef6bc242d2db6e460a9e17925a…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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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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 25V766 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
2ec00d71 - Consequence
f7be5099 - 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.
The wording we hold for 25V766 · how the whole register is watched
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