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Substantial Defect
One that impairs the use, value or safety of the vehicle. Stalling, brake failure, steering and persistent electrical faults qualify. A rattle generally does not.
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STELLANTIS LEMON LAW.
Stellantis filed 53 recall campaigns covering 2.7 million vehicles in 2025. In 2026 two single campaigns each passed 800,000. And several of them exist only because an earlier recall did not work.
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EXPLORE ↓One Manufacturer, Six Badges
Four facts decide the claim. The badge is not one of them.
Your window sticker says Jeep, Ram, Dodge, Chrysler, Fiat or Alfa Romeo. Your recall record, your warrantor and the defendant in any claim all say FCA US, LLC.
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Repair Attempts
Florida looks for three attempts at the same defect. New York looks for four. Recall work and visits that found nothing both count.
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Days Out of Service
Thirty cumulative days in Florida and in New York. Cumulative, not consecutive, and the days count whether or not anything was fixed.
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Coverage Window
The defect has to be reported while the vehicle is inside the warranty or rights period. When it was reported matters more than today's date.
Stellantis is a parent company, not a badge. NHTSA files every US campaign under Chrysler (FCA US, LLC). Its current US divisions are Jeep, Ram, Dodge, Chrysler, Fiat and Alfa Romeo — the European badges in the group's global portfolio are not sold here and are irrelevant to a US claim.
The defining pattern across the group is superseded recalls. Campaign 25V741 replaces 23V787 and 24V720 on the same Jeep plug-in hybrids. Campaign 26V189 expands 25V302 and 25V573 on the same Chrysler Pacifica and Voyager airbags. Kia aside, no manufacturer produces this much documentary evidence of repairs that did not work.
A recall that had to be reissued because the first remedy failed is not an allegation you have to prove. It is on the federal record, filed by the manufacturer, and it goes straight to the reasonable-number-of-attempts element of a Lemon Law claim.
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Recall or Claim
A recall says the manufacturer knows. A reissued recall says the first repair failed.
A recall is the manufacturer acknowledging that a defect exists across a population of vehicles and offering a remedy. It is a public admission of the fault pattern, which makes it useful evidence. What it is not is a Lemon Law claim.
The claim arises from what happened to your vehicle: the defect was reported, the manufacturer was given a reasonable number of attempts to repair it, and it is still there.
Recall figures move monthly, which is why every number on this page carries a date. What does not move is the structure: one manufacturer entity, six US divisions, and campaigns that routinely span four of them at once because the parts are shared.
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A recall of a recall is two attempts, documented.
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WHAT KEEPS COMING BACK.
These are the defect categories that generate the most Lemon Law and warranty claims across Stellantis' US divisions. A vehicle showing one of these is not automatically a claim. A vehicle showing one of these repeatedly and unrepaired usually is.
Group-Wide Camera Failure
Radio software leaves the backup camera blank in reverse across four divisions. Campaign 26V531 covers 844,027 vehicles and is a federal safety-standard violation, not a convenience fault.
Power Steering Fire Risk
Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator electric hydraulic steering pump connectors overheat and can ignite while parked. Campaign 26V363 covers 1,076,999 vehicles, the group's largest single 2026 action.
Plug-In Hybrid Battery Fires
Stellantis 4xe high-voltage packs can short and burn. Campaign 25V741 covers 320,068 Jeep plug-in hybrids and supersedes two earlier recalls, 23V787 and 24V720, on the same vehicles.
Airbag Non-Compliance
Chrysler Pacifica and Voyager curtain airbags lose pressure through unsealed seams across 293,264 vehicles under campaign 26V189, itself an expansion of two prior recalls that did not resolve it.
Trailer Lighting and Brakes
A defective trailer tow module can disable trailer lights and trailer brakes on 456,287 Ram pickups, Jeep Wagoneer S and 2026 Cherokee vehicles under campaign 26V059.
Reflashes That Do Not Stick
Multiple campaigns — the camera blackout, the Charger cluster, the Grand Cherokee hybrid power loss — are remedied only by software updates, producing the repeat dealer visits that build Lemon Law presumptions.
Where It Ends Up
Four ways a Stellantis claim resolves.
Which one applies depends on the state, the facts and what gets negotiated with FCA US. All four start with the same free case review.
The models we see most
Recall record · NHTSA · calendar 2025
STELLANTIS53 CAMPAIGNS. 2.7 MILLION VEHICLES.
01 / JEEP, 2021-2025
1,076,999
Power steering pump fire — Wrangler, Wrangler 4xe and Gladiator. The steering pump wiring may overheat and start a fire, including while parked with the ignition off.
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02 / 2026-2027
844,027
Rearview camera blank — Jeep, Chrysler, Dodge and Ram together. Radio software can stop the camera image displaying when reverse is selected.
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03 / JEEP RAM, 2024-2026
456,287
Trailer lights and brakes — Wagoneer S, 2026 Cherokee and Ram 1500 through 5500. A faulty trailer tow module can leave trailer lighting inoperative and trailer brakes failing.
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04 / JEEP 4XE, 2020-2026
320,068
Battery fire risk — Wrangler 4xe and Grand Cherokee 4xe. Supersedes two earlier recalls on the same vehicles — three remedies for one defect.
Check My Case ↗Filed under Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) across Jeep, Ram, Dodge, Chrysler, Fiat and Alfa Romeo. Two individual 2026 campaigns each exceeded 800,000 vehicles. Figures from NHTSA for calendar 2025, checked 23 September 2026 — these move monthly.
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General information about Lemon Law and warranty claims, not legal advice. What applies to a particular vehicle depends on its records, its warranty and the state where it was bought.
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Against FCA US, LLC. Jeep, Ram, Dodge, Chrysler, Fiat and Alfa Romeo are divisions, not separate manufacturers. NHTSA files every US campaign under Chrysler (FCA US, LLC), which is part of Stellantis. Your window sticker says one thing; the recall record, the warrantor and the defendant all say FCA US.
It means the first remedy did not fix the defect. Campaign 25V741 replaces 23V787 and 24V720 on the same Jeep plug-in hybrids; campaign 26V189 expands 25V302 and 25V573 on the same Chrysler airbags. That is the manufacturer documenting on the federal record that owners were repaired once or twice and still had the defect — which goes straight to the repair-attempt element of a claim.
In calendar 2025 the group filed 53 campaigns covering 2.7 million vehicles. In 2026 two individual campaigns each exceeded 800,000: 1,076,999 Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator vehicles for a power steering fire risk, and 844,027 across four divisions for a rearview camera failure. These figures move monthly, so check the date on any number you rely on.
Fiat and Alfa Romeo are sold in the United States and file under the same FCA US entity — the Alfa Romeo Tonale appears inside the same campaign as the Dodge Hornet. The group's European badges such as Peugeot, Citroën, Opel and Vauxhall are not sold here and have no bearing on a US Lemon Law claim.
Because the parts are shared. The camera campaign covers Jeep, Chrysler, Dodge and Ram at once; the trailer tow module campaign covers Ram pickups alongside Jeep models. One defect therefore produces parallel claims against vehicles wearing four different badges, all against the same manufacturer entity.
No. A recall is the manufacturer acknowledging that a defect exists across a population of vehicles and offering a remedy. A Lemon Law claim arises from what happened to your specific vehicle: a substantial defect, reported inside the coverage period, that the manufacturer was given a reasonable number of attempts to repair and did not. The recall is useful evidence within that claim, not a substitute for it.
Yes, where the recall remedy addressed the defect at issue and the fault persisted afterward. Owners frequently leave recall visits out of their own count because the work was free and manufacturer-initiated, which weakens the record unnecessarily. If the vehicle went in for the fault and came back with the fault, it was an attempt.
Florida's presumption generally arises after three repair attempts for the same defect, or after the vehicle has been out of service for 30 or more cumulative days during the Lemon Law rights period. A separate and earlier trigger applies at 15 cumulative days, when written notice goes to the manufacturer. It is a presumption rather than a fixed requirement — a defect serious enough to be dangerous can qualify with fewer attempts, and the presumption is one route to the remedy rather than the only one.
New York generally looks for four repair attempts for the same defect, or 30 or more days out of service, within the first two years or 18,000 miles. The framework is close to Florida's but the thresholds and the arbitration process differ, and a vehicle bought in one state and serviced in another needs the applicable law identified early.
One that impairs the use, value or safety of the vehicle. Stalling, brake failure, steering faults and persistent electrical problems clearly qualify. A rattle or a trim complaint generally does not. Between those extremes the answer depends on how the fault affects the vehicle in normal use, and on what the repair orders actually say about it.
State Lemon Law is primarily directed at qualifying new and demonstrator vehicles. A used Stellantis can still carry rights where a manufacturer or dealer warranty was active when the defect was reported, generally under federal warranty law including the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, which does not carry the same new-vehicle limitation.
A leased vehicle can be covered where it meets the same substantive requirements that apply to a purchase. The calculation of any refund is tied to the amounts actually paid into the lease rather than the full vehicle price, and the leasing company is dealt with as part of the resolution rather than left to be sorted out afterward.
That visit still counts as a repair attempt. Intermittent faults are extremely common in software, camera and electrical systems, and a growing share of manufacturer campaigns are software-related. A record of repeated visits where the fault was reported and not resolved is precisely the pattern the law addresses. Ask for the complaint to be written down in your words, and keep the copy that says it could not be verified.
Three, in practice. A repurchase, where the manufacturer buys the vehicle back and refunds what was paid, less a statutory offset for the miles driven before the first report of the defect. A replacement with a comparable vehicle. Or a cash settlement where the vehicle stays with you and the manufacturer pays for the diminished value. Which applies depends on the state, the facts and what is negotiated.
Broadly: the purchase price plus collateral and incidental charges, minus a mileage offset tied to the distance driven before the defect was first reported. Registration, taxes and finance charges are frequently recoverable. The offset is the part manufacturers most often calculate in their own favour, and it is worth checking line by line.
Other Manufacturers
The badge does not decide the claim.
The law applies the same way to every brand sold in the state. What differs is the defect pattern, the warranty terms and how hard the manufacturer fights.
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