Electrical system recalls

Wiring harnesses, connectors, fuses, control modules and software that govern the vehicle's electrical behaviour. Covers everything from a failing battery sensor to a software fault in a body control module.

326
Campaigns: 34
Manufacturers: 24
Urgent orders: 13
Years covered

Campaigns by year issued

Counts are of campaigns received by NHTSA in each calendar year. They are not normalised by how many vehicles were on the road, so a taller bar does not by itself mean the system became less reliable.

2014
4
2015
12
2016
12
2017
10
2018
20
2019
25
2020
23
2021
18
2022
33
2023
48
2024
48
2025
51
2026
22

Manufacturers most affected

By number of campaigns touching this system. Larger manufacturers naturally appear more often because they sell more vehicles and more nameplates.

Ford45
BMW27
Toyota19
Kia18
Lincoln18
Jeep18
Hyundai17
Volkswagen16
Chevrolet16
Nissan15
Ram15
Audi15

Recent electrical system campaigns

Showing the 60 most recent of 326.

Method & limitations

Campaigns are grouped by the first segment of NHTSA's component path and mapped to this system through a published alias table. Counts reflect campaigns in the VerifyTheVehicle index, which covers a subset of all US vehicles, and are not defect rates — we hold no registration or sales denominator that would make a rate honest.

Systems by recall activity Methodology NHTSA source