Trans/Air Compressor Mount Kit, model year 9999. Filed by Trans/Air Manufacturing Corp. and reported to NHTSA on 27 August 2013. 3,427 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Trans/Air Manufacturing (Trans/Air) is recalling certain Compressor Mount Kits with part numbers: 4012666-01, 4012666-02, 4012676-01 and 4012676-02; and installed between June 1, 2010 and June 15, 2013 onto Ford 5.4 or 6.8 Liter engines. Depending on the routing of the alternator harness, and the orientation of the …
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.
Trans Air's own number for this recall: 13-002. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 13E049 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 13E049 cover?
- Trans/Air Compressor Mount Kit.
- What is wrong with them?
- Trans/Air Manufacturing (Trans/Air) is recalling certain Compressor Mount Kits with part numbers: 4012666-01, 4012666-02, 4012676-01 and 4012676-02; and installed between June 1, 2010 and June 15, 2013 onto Ford 5.4 or 6.8 Liter engines.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The charging system may fail which could lead to the vehicle stalling while driving, increasing the risk of a crash. Additionally, the spring clamp could pierce both the positive and negative wires of the alternator harness creating a short circuit which could result in a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Trans/Air will notify owners and dealers will inspect the vehicles, correct the clamp installation and repair the alternator harness, as needed, free of charge. The recall began during October 2013. Owners may contact Trans/Air at 1-800-673-2446. Trans/Air's recall number is 13-002.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Trans Air calls this recall 13-002, 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: “The charging system may fail which could lead to the vehicle stalling while driving, increasing the risk of a crash. Additionally, the spring clamp could pierce both the positive and negative wires of the alternator harness creating a short…”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 13E049 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Trans/Air Manufacturing Corp. |
| System at fault | Equipment |
| Reported to NHTSA | 27 August 2013 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | TRANS/AIR COMPRESSOR MOUNT KIT |
What the notice says today
The consequence
The charging system may fail which could lead to the vehicle stalling while driving, increasing the risk of a crash. Additionally, the spring clamp could pierce both the positive and negative wires of the alternator harness creating a short circuit which could result in a fire.
The remedy
Trans/Air will notify owners and dealers will inspect the vehicles, correct the clamp installation and repair the alternator harness, as needed, free of charge. The recall began during October 2013. Owners may contact Trans/Air at 1-800-673-2446. Trans/Air's recall number is 13-002.
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 2,632 notices in the record whose component field names equipment. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 29 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 13E049, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/13e049/
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 Trans Air notices we hold
- 23E082: Dual Compressor Mounts, part numbers 4013775-01 and 4013775-02
- 15V213: model year 2006-2014 GM G3500 and G4500
- 10E028: TA73 EVAPORATORS, P/NOS
All 4 Trans Air 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 13E049 on 17 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
16492721 - Consequence
79311cbe - Remedy
13e9c8ba
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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