Jeep Gladiator, Jeep Wrangler, Jeep Wrangler 4xe, model years 2021 to 2025. Filed by Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) and reported to NHTSA on 4 June 2026. 1,076,999 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) is recalling certain 2021-2025 Jeep Wrangler, Wrangler 4XE, and Jeep Gladiator vehicles. The electric hydraulic power steering pump wiring may overheat and cause a vehicle fire, even when the vehicle is parked with the ignition in the "Off" 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.
Jeep's own number for this recall: 21D. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V363 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 26V363 cover?
- Jeep Gladiator, Jeep Wrangler, Jeep Wrangler 4Xe, model years 2021-2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) is recalling certain 2021-2025 Jeep Wrangler, Wrangler 4XE, and Jeep Gladiator vehicles. The electric hydraulic power steering pump wiring may overheat and cause a vehicle fire, even when the vehicle is parked with the ignition in the "Off" position.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A vehicle fire increases the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Owners are advised to park outside and away from structures, until their vehicle is repaired. Dealers will inspect and replace the wiring and electric hydraulic power steering pump, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed July 9, 2026.
- 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 21D, 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.
By vehicles covered, this is one of the largest campaigns on the American register we hold.
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V363 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) |
| System at fault | Steering:Hydraulic Power Assist:Pump |
| Reported to NHTSA | 4 June 2026 |
| Model years | 2021-2025 |
| Vehicles named | JEEP GLADIATOR, JEEP WRANGLER, JEEP WRANGLER 4XE |
This is not an ordinary campaign.
- Owners are told to park it outside, away from buildings: the wording used when a vehicle can catch fire while switched off and unattended.
What the notice says today
The defect
Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) is recalling certain 2021-2025 Jeep Wrangler, Wrangler 4XE, and Jeep Gladiator vehicles. The electric hydraulic power steering pump wiring may overheat and cause a vehicle fire, even when the vehicle is parked with the ignition in the "Off" position.
The consequence
A vehicle fire increases the risk of injury.
The remedy
Owners are advised to park outside and away from structures, until their vehicle is repaired. Dealers will inspect and replace the wiring and electric hydraulic power steering pump, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed July 9, 2026. Owners may contact FCA US LLC customer service at 1-800-853-1403. FCA US LLC's number for this recall is 21D. The Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will become searchable on NHTSA.gov on June 11, 2026.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 15 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 073c2647d8b5a5b75fb7a298ebdbe7fc…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 745 notices in the record whose component field names steering. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 39 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Jeep Gladiator recalls: 18 US campaigns
- Jeep Wrangler recalls: 47 US campaigns
- Jeep Wrangler 4xe recalls: 5 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 26V363, wording as read on 15 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v363/
The copy quoted above hashes to 073c2647d8b5a5b75fb7a298ebdbe7fc…. 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 26V363 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
27c0429f - Consequence
107f5372 - 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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