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The delay · Kovatch Mobile Equipment

Across 50 recalls with both dates on record, Kovatch Mobile Equipment waited a median of 47 days between reporting a defect and writing to owners. That is 6 days longer than the register as a whole.

47Rank for slowness, of 141 manufacturers
55 daysSlowest tenth of its recalls
395 daysIts longest wait on record
0Told owners the same day

If your vehicle was made by Kovatch Mobile Equipment

Nothing on this page can tell you whether your own vehicle is affected. Only its vehicle identification number can. The regulator runs a free lookup that takes a VIN and returns every unrepaired safety recall on that exact vehicle, with no account and no charge: the NHTSA recall lookup.

If it returns a recall, the repair is carried out free of charge. That obligation is not unlimited: it runs for fifteen years from the date the vehicle was first sold, but it covers almost every vehicle on the road. The campaign number, the code in the form 26V123 that identifies each campaign below, is the thing to quote when booking it.

The figures on this page describe the letter, not the repair. Kovatch Mobile Equipment took a median of 47 days to write to owners after reporting a defect, and its slowest tenth of campaigns took 55 days or more. That is why a vehicle can be under recall for weeks before the person driving it has heard anything, and why the lookup is worth running even when no letter has arrived.

If you believe a vehicle has a safety defect that has not been recalled, the regulator takes reports from owners directly at nhtsa.gov. We are a company that reads and republishes the public register. We are not the regulator, and we cannot act on a complaint for you.

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Of 50 recalls, 38 took more than a month and 1 took more than three months. 1 reached owners before the report reached the regulator. Between them these campaigns cover 4,164 vehicles.

Its slowest recalls

Campaign Make Reported Owners told Wait Vehicles
14V455 KME 2014-07-25 2015-08-24 395 days 10
12V027 KME 2012-01-30 2012-04-10 71 days 120
16V569 KME 2016-08-01 2016-10-11 71 days 112
16V586 KME 2016-08-08 2016-10-14 67 days 74
23V798 KME 2023-11-26 2024-01-24 59 days 44
22V607 KME 2022-08-09 2022-10-03 55 days 11
19V230 KME 2019-03-25 2019-05-17 53 days 4
20V487 KME 2020-08-18 2020-10-09 52 days 38
21V333 KME 2021-05-11 2021-07-02 52 days 386
19V267 KME 2019-04-02 2019-05-23 51 days 148
20V341 KME 2020-06-10 2020-07-31 51 days 107
17V503 KME 2017-08-14 2017-10-03 50 days 14
17V504 KME 2017-08-14 2017-10-03 50 days 20
18V622 KME 2018-09-13 2018-11-02 50 days 111
18V746 KME 2018-10-22 2018-12-11 50 days 8
20V051 KME 2020-01-29 2020-03-19 50 days 41
18V172 KME 2018-03-14 2018-05-02 49 days 12
21V097 KME 2021-02-19 2021-04-09 49 days 88
21V100 KME 2021-02-19 2021-04-09 49 days 94
21V960 KME 2021-12-10 2022-01-28 49 days 85
21V905 KME 2021-11-19 2022-01-07 49 days 26
23V818 KME 2023-12-06 2024-01-24 49 days 22
19V528 KME 2019-07-12 2019-08-29 48 days 529
20V006 KME 2020-01-08 2020-02-25 48 days 6
16V930 KME 2016-12-23 2017-02-08 47 days 82
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How this was worked out

NHTSA publishes the whole American recall register as one flat file. Two of its columns are the date the defect report was received and the date the manufacturer notified owners. We read both, for every campaign, and subtract one from the other.

Step Count
Campaigns in the file 15,232
No owner-notification date recorded 370
No report-received date recorded 0
Owners told before the regulator 615
Dates that contradict the campaign’s own year 4
Used in the figures above 14,858

Medians rather than averages, because a single campaign notified years late would move an average somewhere meaningless. A recall with a date missing is excluded and counted, never filled in with a guess. Read on 9 September 2026 from the file itself.

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