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The delay · Prevost Cars

Across 63 recalls with both dates on record, Prevost Cars waited a median of 49 days between reporting a defect and writing to owners. That is 8 days longer than the register as a whole.

39Rank for slowness, of 141 manufacturers
133 daysSlowest tenth of its recalls
276 daysIts longest wait on record
2Told owners the same day

If your vehicle was made by Prevost Cars

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. Prevost Cars took a median of 49 days to write to owners after reporting a defect, and its slowest tenth of campaigns took 133 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 63 recalls, 42 took more than a month and 10 took more than three months. Between them these campaigns cover 26,034 vehicles.

Its slowest recalls

Campaign Make Reported Owners told Wait Vehicles
17E068 KIDDE 2017-11-20 2018-08-23 276 days 742
17V737 PREVOST 2017-11-20 2018-07-11 233 days 2,306
14V771 PREVOST 2014-12-03 2015-05-21 169 days 80
18V928 PREVOST 2018-12-21 2019-06-03 164 days 676
17E071 RECARO 2017-11-22 2018-04-30 159 days 84
12V205 VOLVO BUS 2012-05-08 2012-09-26 141 days 27
19V565 PREVOST 2019-07-31 2019-12-19 141 days 1,010
13V150 PREVOST 2013-04-19 2013-08-30 133 days 655
15V428 PREVOST 2015-07-06 2015-11-11 128 days 68
13E022 PREVOST 2013-04-30 2013-08-21 113 days 416
12V539 VOLVO BUS 2012-11-15 2013-02-08 85 days 44
13V039 PREVOST 2013-02-07 2013-05-02 84 days 1,033
10V117 PREVOST 2010-03-24 2010-06-14 82 days 280
12V313 VOLVO BUS 2012-07-05 2012-09-24 81 days 165
13V015 PREVOST 2013-01-17 2013-03-22 64 days 261
21V485 PREVOST 2021-06-28 2021-08-31 64 days 65
21V488 PREVOST 2021-06-28 2021-08-31 64 days 56
13V055 PREVOST 2013-02-15 2013-04-18 62 days 6,120
13V650 PREVOST 2013-12-26 2014-02-26 62 days 682
17V618 PREVOST 2017-10-04 2017-12-04 61 days 3,163
14V206 PREVOST 2014-04-18 2014-06-16 59 days 80
17V299 PREVOST 2017-05-02 2017-06-30 59 days 407
21V348 PREVOST 2021-05-13 2021-07-11 59 days 17
13V472 PREVOST 2013-09-26 2013-11-22 57 days 35
13V278 PREVOST 2013-06-28 2013-08-22 55 days 27
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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 15,246
No owner-notification date recorded 375
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 14,867

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 15 September 2026 from the file itself.

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