Jeep is recalling 328,381 Grand Cherokee SUVs because a rear coil spring installed incorrectly at the factory can detach from the vehicle while it’s being driven. The recall, filed with federal regulators on September 1, 2026, is the third time in roughly a year Chrysler parent FCA US has gone after this same rear-suspension defect on the Grand Cherokee — and by far the largest.

Key Points

• 328,381 vehicles are covered under recall number 26V562, according to the NHTSA recall report filed by FCA US.
• The defect involves a rear coil spring lower isolator, supplied by Airboss, that “may not be correctly installed” and can separate from the vehicle during operation.
• NHTSA’s filing warns a detached spring “creates a road hazard to operators and occupants of other vehicles, and can cause a vehicle crash without prior warning.”
• This follows a smaller, 80,620-vehicle recall for the identical defect that FCA filed in January 2026, according to the earlier NHTSA filing.

What’s Affected

• 2022–2023 Jeep Grand Cherokee (97,477 units)
• 2021–2023 Jeep Grand Cherokee L (215,433 units)
• 2022–2023 Jeep Grand Cherokee PHEV (15,471 units)

The recall covers vehicles built between December 5, 2020, and May 31, 2023, per the NHTSA filing. The root cause traces back to the rear coil spring’s lower isolator component, which can fail to seat correctly during assembly, gradually allowing the spring to work itself loose and separate from the suspension entirely while the vehicle is in motion, as detailed by CBS News.

What Owners Should Do

NHTSA’s filing carries an unusually blunt advisory for affected owners: “Do Not Drive. Park Outside.” Dealers will inspect the rear coil spring lower isolators and replace both of them at no cost to the owner. Notification letters are expected to go out to owners in the coming weeks; in the meantime, owners of 2021–2023 Grand Cherokee and Grand Cherokee L models, or the 2022–2023 PHEV variant, can check whether their specific vehicle is included by entering their VIN at NHTSA.gov or contacting a Jeep dealer directly.

This is now the third distinct recall campaign FCA has run against the same coil-spring defect on this generation of Grand Cherokee, following an earlier and much smaller fix that covered barely a quarter of the vehicles now being called back. The scale of the expansion suggests the original remedy either missed a broader batch of affected suspensions or the underlying isolator defect proved more widespread than initially understood. Owners who already had a prior coil-spring repair performed should still confirm with their dealer whether their VIN falls under this newest, larger recall, since the affected population has grown substantially since the first fix went out earlier this year.