Rear coil springs on 328,381 Jeep Grand Cherokees can come loose and drop out of the suspension while the vehicle is moving, according to a recall filed by Stellantis’s Chrysler unit. The population covers the 2021 through 2023 Grand Cherokee L and the 2022 through 2023 Grand Cherokee, including the 4xe plug-in hybrid. Chrysler’s own designation for the action is recall 89D.
A coil spring is a steel part under heavy load, and in a rear suspension it sits between the axle and the body, seated at the bottom on a rubber isolator. If that seat is wrong, the spring can work free of its perch. The result is a vehicle that sags or handles differently at speed, plus a steel coil dropped onto the roadway as debris for whoever is driving behind, with the Jeep itself left riding on a corner that has lost its support. NHTSA’s wording for the outcome is a higher risk of a crash.
NHTSA campaign 26V562 and the defect text
The federal record is NHTSA campaign 26V562, filed under Chrysler in the rear-suspension category for coil springs. Its defect summary is a single sentence: the rear coil springs “may be incorrectly installed and detach from the vehicle while driving.” The agency’s consequence statement says that springs coming off a moving vehicle “increase the risk of a crash,” and it gives the potential population as 328,381 units across three model groups.
NHTSA’s recall acknowledgement adds the schedule. Vehicle identification numbers became searchable on NHTSA.gov on September 9, 2026, and interim letters to owners were set for September 29, 2026. Because the repair is only partly defined at this stage, further letters are promised once the final remedy exists, and Chrysler must send the agency drafts of those letters before they go out.
Lower isolators and the models that carry them
The fix named in the filing is replacement of the rear coil spring lower isolators at dealers, at no cost. AutoGuide’s reading of the filing breaks the 328,381 into 215,433 Grand Cherokee L, 97,477 standard Grand Cherokee and 15,471 Grand Cherokee 4xe, and reports that SUVs with the Quadra-Lift air suspension are excluded. It also traces the isolators to a supplier, AirBoss, and says they were installed incorrectly at the factory rather than wearing out in service.
Quadra-Lift air-suspension SUVs sit outside the recall, so a suspension option matters when checking a VIN.
The three figures add up to the full 328,381, so the count is one population and not a blend of different ones. The Grand Cherokee L is the larger share by a wide margin: roughly two of every three affected vehicles are the three-row version, which Jeep began selling for the 2021 model year.
Third recall for the same spring
This is not Chrysler’s first attempt. In 2023 the company filed recall 23V413 for 305,282 Grand Cherokees and Grand Cherokee Ls, with dealers told to inspect the rear spring assemblies and repair them if necessary. That campaign was superseded in January 2026 by recall 26V051, which covered a narrower 80,620 vehicles and again called for inspection and repair of the rear spring assembly, with letters on a final repair expected in March 2026.
The model lists widened along the way. The 2023 campaign named the 2021 through 2023 Grand Cherokee, the Grand Cherokee L and the 2022 Grand Cherokee 4xe, while the January filing named only the 2022 through 2023 Grand Cherokee and the 2021 through 2023 Grand Cherokee L. The newest record sweeps all three groups, 4xe included, back into one campaign.
Campaign 26V562 replaces both, and NHTSA’s record says vehicles already repaired under either earlier recall must receive the new remedy as well. According to AutoGuide, Chrysler’s filing treats the earlier inspection-based fixes as insufficient: springs loosened again on vehicles that had already been serviced. The trade roundup at CarPro carries the same unit count and the same interim-letter date of September 29.
Warranty claims against 328,381 vehicles
AutoGuide reports that, as of early August 2026, Chrysler had documented 406 warranty claims and 29 customer assistance records tied to the condition. Against 328,381 vehicles that is a small share, and it is the only field-experience figure attached to the filing, which gives no crash count for the springs. The two numbers are separate tallies, one from warranty paperwork and one from customer-assistance records, and AutoGuide does not report how many vehicles appear in both. Neither figure is a count of springs that actually came off a car on the road.
The open item is the remedy itself, and it has been open through three campaigns. NHTSA’s acknowledgement lists the final-remedy notification as still to come, with no date, so the isolator replacement described in the filing is the plan on paper and not yet a finished repair that any dealer can perform on all 328,381 vehicles.
This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.
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