Altec Dc1217, Altec Dc1317, Altec Dc1317hp, model years 2008 to 2011. Filed by Altec Industries Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 3 August 2012. 227 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Altec Environmental Products (AEP) is recalling certain model year 2008-2009 DC1217 and DC1317 and model year 2008-2011 DC1317HP wood chippers. Cracks could develop in the wood chipper frame.
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.
Altec's own number for this recall: CSN 551. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 12V383 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 12V383 cover?
- Altec Dc1217, Altec Dc1317, Altec Dc1317Hp, model years 2008-2011.
- What is wrong with them?
- Altec Environmental Products (AEP) is recalling certain model year 2008-2009 DC1217 and DC1317 and model year 2008-2011 DC1317HP wood chippers. Cracks could develop in the wood chipper frame.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If cracks develop in the frame, there is an increased risk of personal injury or property damage.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. AEP will notify owners, and dealers will install frame reinforcement kits to all affected units. The safety recall began on August 24, 2012. Owners may contact Altec Environmental Products at 1-877-462-5832.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Altec calls this recall CSN 551, 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: “If cracks develop in the frame, there is an increased risk of personal injury or property damage.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 12V383 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | ALTEC INDUSTRIES INC. |
| System at fault | Structure |
| Reported to NHTSA | 3 August 2012 |
| Model years | 2008-2011 |
| Vehicles named | ALTEC DC1217, ALTEC DC1317, ALTEC DC1317HP |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If cracks develop in the frame, there is an increased risk of personal injury or property damage.
The remedy
AEP will notify owners, and dealers will install frame reinforcement kits to all affected units. The safety recall began on August 24, 2012. Owners may contact Altec Environmental Products at 1-877-462-5832.
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 901 notices in the record whose component field names structure. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 12V383, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/12v383/
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.
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 12V383 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
c39506c7 - Consequence
275cae33 - 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.
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