Ram 2500, model year 2026. Filed by Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) and reported to NHTSA on 16 April 2026. 6,605 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) is recalling certain 2026 Ram 2500 Pickup trucks. The trucks may be equipped with steering column control modules that can cause a loss of electronic stability control. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 126, "Electronic …
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.
Ram's own number for this recall: 36D. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V244 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 26V244 cover?
- Ram 2500, model year 2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) is recalling certain 2026 Ram 2500 Pickup trucks. The trucks may be equipped with steering column control modules that can cause a loss of electronic stability control.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loss of electronic stability control increases the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the steering column control module, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 7, 2026. Owners may contact FCA customer service at 1-800-853-1403. FCA's number for this recall is 36D.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Ram calls this recall 36D, 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 electronic stability control increases the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V244 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) |
| System at fault | Electronic Stability Control (ESC):Control Module |
| Reported to NHTSA | 16 April 2026 |
| Model years | 2026-2026 |
| Vehicles named | RAM 2500 |
What the notice says today
The defect
Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) is recalling certain 2026 Ram 2500 Pickup trucks. The trucks may be equipped with steering column control modules that can cause a loss of electronic stability control. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 126, "Electronic Stability Control Systems."
The consequence
A loss of electronic stability control increases the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the steering column control module, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 7, 2026. Owners may contact FCA customer service at 1-800-853-1403. FCA's number for this recall is 36D. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will become searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning April 23, 2026.
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 9464bd4368f45ad0925542f620aaf6f0…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 84 notices in the record whose component field names electronic stability control (esc). Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 46 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 26V244, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v244/
The copy quoted above hashes to 9464bd4368f45ad0925542f620aaf6f0…. 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.
Other Ram notices we hold
- 26V561: 2025-2026 Chrysler Voyager, Chrysler Pacifica, and 2026 Chrysler Voyager Plug-In Hybrid Electric (PHEV)
- 26V560: 2025-2026 Ram 1500
- 26V529: 2026 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Grand Cherokee L
- 26V528: 2021-2023 Dodge Durango
- 26V510: 2023-2025 Dodge Hornet and 2023-2026 Alfa Romeo Tonale
- 26V495: 2019-2026 Ram 1500
- 26V456: 2026 Jeep Gladiator and Jeep Wrangler
- 26V421: 2026 Ram 1500
All 601 Ram campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
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 26V244 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
05bb6739 - Consequence
de41df86 - 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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