Fisker Karma, model year 2012. Filed by Karma Automotive LLC and reported to NHTSA on 22 August 2012. 1,377 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Fisker Automotive (Fisker) is recalling certain model year 2012 Fisker Karma passenger cars manufactured from June 15, 2011, through July 9, 2012. A manufacturing defect in the low temperature cooling fan may result in a direct short.
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.
Fisker's own number for this recall: 520120016. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 12V413 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 12V413 cover?
- Fisker Karma, model year 2012.
- What is wrong with them?
- Fisker Automotive (Fisker) is recalling certain model year 2012 Fisker Karma passenger cars manufactured from June 15, 2011, through July 9, 2012. A manufacturing defect in the low temperature cooling fan may result in a direct short.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A direct short may ignite the fan housing, shroud and surrounding components, causing a vehicle fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Fisker will notify owners, and dealers will remove the two potentially affected low temperature cooling fans and replace them with one improved low temperature cooling fan, free of charge. The safety recall began on August 24, 2012.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Fisker calls this recall 520120016, 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: “A direct short may ignite the fan housing, shroud and surrounding components, causing a vehicle fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 12V413 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Karma Automotive LLC |
| System at fault | Engine And Engine Cooling:Cooling System:Fan |
| Reported to NHTSA | 22 August 2012 |
| Model years | 2012-2012 |
| Vehicles named | FISKER KARMA |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A direct short may ignite the fan housing, shroud and surrounding components, causing a vehicle fire.
The remedy
Fisker will notify owners, and dealers will remove the two potentially affected low temperature cooling fans and replace them with one improved low temperature cooling fan, free of charge. The safety recall began on August 24, 2012. Owners may contact Fisker consumer affairs at 1-855-575-7577, option 2, 6am - 7pm (pst) Monday through Friday.
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 588 notices in the record whose component field names engine and engine cooling. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 47 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 12V413, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/12v413/
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.
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- 11V598: MODEL YEAR 2012 FISKER KARMA PASSENGER CARS MANUFACTURED FROM JULY 1, 2011, THROUGH NOVEMBER 3, 2011
All 9 Fisker 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 12V413 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
2e276979 - Consequence
a9237a5d - 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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