Jeep’s parent company has told federal regulators that every one of the 97,349 Wagoneers in recall 26V584 is expected to have the defect: roof rack crossbars whose pivot bolts may never have been tightened to specification. Chrysler, the FCA corporate entity that builds Jeep, filed the recall on September 10, 2026, covering four versions of the full-size SUV built from early 2021 through late 2025. A crossbar that works loose can come off the roof at speed and land in the road.
The filing also says the repair is not ready yet.
Campaign 26V584 and the contents of its Part 573 report
Every recall in the United States starts with a document most owners never see. The Part 573 regulation requires a manufacturer to tell NHTSA what the defect is, which vehicles carry it, how the company found out, and when it will notify owners. The report for campaign 26V584, which Chrysler also tracks internally as recall 81D, fills in each of those fields, and it is more candid than the one-paragraph notice that reaches a mailbox.
The defect statement is a single sentence in the filing: a crossbar with insufficient torque on the pivot bolt may detach from the vehicle. The consequence, on the agency’s campaign record, is a road hazard from detached crossbars, one that makes a crash more likely.
Beyond the defect statement, the document is also where a manufacturer states its own estimate of how many vehicles are actually affected, lists the replacement part numbers, and gives the production windows for each model line. Those fields are what let an outside reader check a company’s claim against the number on the campaign record.
The four Wagoneer variants and the 100 percent estimate
The population table in the filing shows where the 97,349 vehicles sit. The 2022 to 2025 Jeep Wagoneer accounts for 54,249 of them, built between March 8, 2021 and October 10, 2025. The 2022 to 2026 Grand Wagoneer adds 22,144, the 2023 to 2025 Wagoneer L adds 11,606, and the 2023 to 2026 Grand Wagoneer L adds 9,350. Those four lines sum to the full total with nothing left over.
The number that stands out is the estimated defect rate. Most recall filings carry a percentage well below 100, because only a fraction of a population ever received a bad part. For this campaign, the filing puts the share of affected vehicles at 100 percent, a figure Yahoo Autos’ reading of the report highlights as the unusual part of the filing.
A supplier, a torque spec and 15 warranty claims
The root cause the report assigns is insufficient torque on the pivot bolts of crossbars supplied by Minth, trading in the filing as Plastic Trim International. The pivot is the joint that lets a crossbar fold or rotate, and a bolt that never reached its tightening specification can back off through vibration and temperature cycling until the bar separates. Six component part numbers are listed, from 68747056AA through 68442426AC.
The chronology is specific. Chrysler’s investigation opened on June 25, 2026, and an engineering review ran through August 19. On August 31 the company counted 15 warranty claims, and the filing reports no accidents or injuries. On September 3 it confirmed a safety defect, and on September 10 it filed the report. No individual is named: the decision is credited to the company’s Technical Safety and Regulatory Compliance group, according to the Yahoo Autos account.
Fifteen claims across a fleet of nearly 100,000 is a thin trail, yet the filing’s logic does not rest on counting failures. It rests on the finding that the torque was never right to begin with.
Interim letters on October 8, and a remedy still to come
Dealers were notified on September 17, 2026, the same day the VINs became searchable on NHTSA’s site. The remedy in the filing is a repair of the pivot joints with redesigned bolts, performed by dealers at no cost, but parts are not yet available. Owners therefore get two mailings: interim letters beginning October 8, 2026, which warn of the risk without being able to book a repair, and a second notice once replacement bolts exist. No date for the second letter appears in the report.
NHTSA’s recall page shows where a specific vehicle stands once its VIN is entered. Warning signs described in the filing include rattling noises or a missing bolt. Because the remedy replaces bolts, the fix has to happen physically in a service bay, which is why parts availability governs the schedule.
What the 573 leaves open is the date of the second letter, and with it the length of time that 97,349 Wagoneers will carry a crossbar the manufacturer itself says is probably not tight enough.
This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.
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