Prevost X3-45, model years 2011 to 2012. Filed by Prevost Cars, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 26 December 2012. 196 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Prevost is recalling certain model year 2011 and 2012 X3-45 Prevost coaches manufactured from March 25, 2011, through March 20, 2012. The left side radius rod support for the front I-beam suspension system may have been made from the wrong materials and thus, may suddenly break.
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.
Prevost's own number for this recall: SR13-01. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 12V600 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 12V600 cover?
- Prevost X3-45, model years 2011-2012.
- What is wrong with them?
- Prevost is recalling certain model year 2011 and 2012 X3-45 Prevost coaches manufactured from March 25, 2011, through March 20, 2012. The left side radius rod support for the front I-beam suspension system may have been made from the wrong materials and thus, may suddenly break.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the rod breaks while the vehicle is in use, stability and vehicle control may be lost, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Prevost will notify owners, and dealers will insepct the vehicles and replace any affected radius rod supports, free of charge. The recall began on January 28, 2013. Owners may contact Prevost at 1-418-883-2888.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Prevost calls this recall SR13-01, 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 the rod breaks while the vehicle is in use, stability and vehicle control may be lost, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 12V600 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Prevost Cars, Inc. |
| System at fault | Suspension:Front |
| Reported to NHTSA | 26 December 2012 |
| Model years | 2011-2012 |
| Vehicles named | PREVOST X3-45 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the rod breaks while the vehicle is in use, stability and vehicle control may be lost, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Prevost will notify owners, and dealers will insepct the vehicles and replace any affected radius rod supports, free of charge. The recall began on January 28, 2013. Owners may contact Prevost at 1-418-883-2888.
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 732 notices in the record whose component field names suspension. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 33 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 12V600, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/12v600/
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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- 26E008: exterior driver side mirrors with part number 990648
- 25V738: 2025 X3-45 Commuter buses
- 25V461: 2018-2019 X3-45 Commuter
- 25V460: 2025 X3-45 and 2025-2026 H3-45 coach buses
- 25V290: one 2025 X3-45 VIP Entertainer
- 25V243: 2025 Prevost H3-45 and X3-45 motorcoaches
All 87 Prevost 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 12V600 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
2687c220 - Consequence
3fba8e47 - Remedy
7871a31c
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 12V600 · how the whole register is watched
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