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The delay · Spartan Motors USA

Across 94 recalls with both dates on record, Spartan Motors USA waited a median of 39.5 days between reporting a defect and writing to owners. That is 1.5 days faster than the register as a whole.

70Rank for slowness, of 141 manufacturers
63 daysSlowest tenth of its recalls
763 daysIts longest wait on record
0Told owners the same day

If your vehicle was made by Spartan Motors USA

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. Spartan Motors USA took a median of 39.5 days to write to owners after reporting a defect, and its slowest tenth of campaigns took 63 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 94 recalls, 61 took more than a month and 7 took more than three months. 2 reached owners before the report reached the regulator. Between them these campaigns cover 65,479 vehicles.

Its slowest recalls

Campaign Make Reported Owners told Wait Vehicles
11V412 SPARTAN 2011-08-11 2013-09-12 763 days 313
15V540 SPARTAN 2015-08-25 2016-10-31 433 days 696
15V687 SPARTAN 2015-10-21 2016-11-07 383 days 2,038
15V170 SPARTAN 2015-03-24 2015-12-02 253 days 292
15V633 SPARTAN 2015-10-08 2016-02-18 133 days 3,313
14V623 SPARTAN 2014-10-06 2015-02-09 126 days 389
15V014 SPARTAN 2015-01-16 2015-05-15 119 days 24
13V066 SPARTAN 2013-02-28 2013-05-23 84 days 27
14V679 SPARTAN 2014-10-28 2015-01-14 78 days 65
16V537 SPARTAN MOTORS 2016-07-19 2016-10-05 78 days 39
13V613 SPARTAN 2013-12-06 2014-02-07 63 days 3
18V377 UTILIMASTER 2018-06-06 2018-08-06 61 days 3,194
14V747 SPARTAN 2014-11-24 2015-01-22 59 days 1,059
14V022 SPARTAN 2014-01-28 2014-03-28 59 days 480
15V547 SPARTAN 2015-09-01 2015-10-30 59 days 322
15V670 UTILIMASTER 2015-10-19 2015-12-17 59 days 406
18V440 SPARTAN 2018-06-29 2018-08-27 59 days 865
13V302 SPARTAN MOTORS 2013-07-09 2013-09-05 58 days 46
13V467 SPARTAN 2013-09-18 2013-11-15 58 days 125
14V191 SPARTAN MOTORS 2014-04-15 2014-06-12 58 days 91
14V664 SPARTAN 2014-10-22 2014-12-19 58 days 304
15V549 SPARTAN 2015-09-01 2015-10-29 58 days 1,212
15V247 UTILIMASTER 2015-04-27 2015-06-24 58 days 2,904
18V691 SPARTAN 2018-10-03 2018-11-30 58 days 923
18V932 SPARTAN 2018-12-26 2019-02-22 58 days 138
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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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