Dynasys Apu, model year 9999. Filed by Hodyon, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 5 February 2013. 3,274 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Hodyon, Inc. is recalling certain Dynasys Auxillary Power Units (APU) distributed between October 2009 and December 2012. The wire that connects the APU to the heating, ventilation and cooling (HVAC) unit may be under-rated for the electrical current. If the wire becomes bent or kinked, it may have reduced current …
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.
Dynasys's own number for this recall: TSB-01242013. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 13E006 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 13E006 cover?
- Dynasys Apu.
- What is wrong with them?
- Hodyon, Inc. is recalling certain Dynasys Auxillary Power Units (APU) distributed between October 2009 and December 2012. The wire that connects the APU to the heating, ventilation and cooling (HVAC) unit may be under-rated for the electrical current.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If flammable materials are near the overheated wire, there is an increased risk of fire and personal injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Hodyon has sent interim notification letters to the affected customers, and dealers will rewire the affected electrical components going to the HVAC system. The recall began on February 19, 2013. Owners may contact Dynasys Customer Service at 1-800-289-8282 ext 3.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Dynasys calls this recall TSB-01242013, 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 flammable materials are near the overheated wire, there is an increased risk of fire and personal injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 13E006 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Hodyon, Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System |
| Reported to NHTSA | 5 February 2013 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | DYNASYS APU |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If flammable materials are near the overheated wire, there is an increased risk of fire and personal injury.
The remedy
Hodyon has sent interim notification letters to the affected customers, and dealers will rewire the affected electrical components going to the HVAC system. The recall began on February 19, 2013. Owners may contact Dynasys Customer Service at 1-800-289-8282 ext 3.
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 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 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 13E006, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/13e006/
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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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 13E006 on 17 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
dc3b03e4 - Consequence
cd33f53a - 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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