Suspension recalls

Control arms, ball joints, springs, dampers and knuckles. Ball-joint separations are a recurring source of do-not-drive instructions.

96
Campaigns: 28
Manufacturers: 11
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
1
2015
2
2016
7
2017
2
2018
7
2019
11
2020
6
2021
21
2022
9
2023
8
2024
9
2025
8
2026
5

Manufacturers most affected

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

Ford20
Porsche14
Jeep8
Volkswagen7
BMW6
Chevrolet5
Lincoln5
Tesla5
Cadillac4
Subaru4
Hyundai3
Kia3

Recent suspension campaigns

Showing the 60 most recent of 96.

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