Starcraft Prodigy, Starcraft Quest, model years 2008 to 2011. Filed by Starcraft Bus and reported to NHTSA on 8 December 2011. 1,792 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Starcraft bus is recalling certain model year 2008 through 2011 prodigy and quest school buses and mfsab activity vehicles manufactured from december 8, 2008, through september 16, 2011, equipped with a challenger door rear emergency exit doors. due to insufficient lubrication on the rear door handle latch mechanism, …
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Starcraft Bus's own number for this recall: 11V103000. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 11V584 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 11V584 cover?
- Starcraft Prodigy, Starcraft Quest, model years 2008-2011.
- What is wrong with them?
- STARCRAFT BUS IS RECALLING CERTAIN MODEL YEAR 2008 THROUGH 2011 PRODIGY AND QUEST SCHOOL BUSES AND MFSAB ACTIVITY VEHICLES MANUFACTURED FROM DECEMBER 8, 2008, THROUGH SEPTEMBER 16, 2011, EQUIPPED WITH A CHALLENGER DOOR REAR EMERGENCY EXIT DOORS.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY, THE VEHICLE OCCUPANTS MAY BE UNABLE TO OPEN THE REAR DOOR, WHICH WOULD HINDER EGRESS OF THE BUS, POSSIBLY RESULTING IN INJURY TO THE VEHICLE OCCUPANTS.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. STARCRAFT BUS WILL NOTIFY OWNERS, DEALERS WILL REPAIR THE BUSES FREE OF CHARGE. THE SAFETY RECALL BEGAN ON JANUARY 10, 2012. OWNERS MAY CONTACT STARCRAFT BUS AT 1-800-348-7440.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Starcraft Bus calls this recall 11V103000, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY, THE VEHICLE OCCUPANTS MAY BE UNABLE TO OPEN THE REAR DOOR, WHICH WOULD HINDER EGRESS OF THE BUS, POSSIBLY RESULTING IN INJURY TO THE VEHICLE OCCUPANTS.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 11V584 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | STARCRAFT BUS |
| System at fault | Latches/Locks/Linkages:Doors:Latch |
| Reported to NHTSA | 8 December 2011 |
| Model years | 2008-2011 |
| Vehicles named | STARCRAFT PRODIGY, STARCRAFT QUEST |
What the notice says today
The consequence
IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY, THE VEHICLE OCCUPANTS MAY BE UNABLE TO OPEN THE REAR DOOR, WHICH WOULD HINDER EGRESS OF THE BUS, POSSIBLY RESULTING IN INJURY TO THE VEHICLE OCCUPANTS.
The remedy
STARCRAFT BUS WILL NOTIFY OWNERS, DEALERS WILL REPAIR THE BUSES FREE OF CHARGE. THE SAFETY RECALL BEGAN ON JANUARY 10, 2012. OWNERS MAY CONTACT STARCRAFT BUS AT 1-800-348-7440.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 237 notices in the record whose component field names latches/locks/linkages. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 49 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 11V584, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/11v584/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
Other Starcraft Bus notices we hold
- 13V199: model year 2006-2012 Allstar buses manufactured November 2006, through July 2012
- 13V100: model year 2004-2009 XLT buses manufactured from January 16, 2004, to October 29, 2009
- 12V268: MODEL YEAR 2011 AND 2012 STARLITE SHUTTLE BUSES MANUFACTURED FROM APRIL 1, 2011, THROUGH MARCH 25, 2012, EQUIPPED WITH SPECIALTY MANUFACTURING INC
- 10V278: MODEL YEAR 2007 THROUGH 2009 ALLSTAR SHUTTLE BUSES MANUFACTURED FROM DECEMBER 1, 2007 THROUGH DECEMBER 18, 2009 AND FITTED WITH RICON PUBLIC USE LIFTS
All 5 Starcraft Bus campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 11V584 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
3ac7884c - Consequence
1c683efe - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
The wording we hold for 11V584 · how the whole register is watched
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