Skip to the page
CARSMULTIVERSERecall alerts

Braun recall 13V012: Model Year 2011-2013 Rampvan

Rows of new cars in a large car park
Photo: Rob Dean / Unsplash
ShareWhatsAppFacebookXEmail

Braun Rampvan, model years 2011 to 2013. Filed by Braun Corporation and reported to NHTSA on 11 January 2013. 732 vehicles potentially affected.

What the notice says Braun is recalling certain model year 2011-2013 Rampvan vehicles manufactured from May 8, 2012, through January 3, 2013. Braun Rampvans are Toyota Sienna minivans that have been modified for special use. The Braun-specific toe pan panel comes in close proximity to the accelerator pedal lever. There could be an …

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.

CarsMultiverse/Recalls

What owners ask about this recall

Which vehicles does recall 13V012 cover?
Braun Rampvan, model years 2011-2013.
What is wrong with them?
Braun is recalling certain model year 2011-2013 Rampvan vehicles manufactured from May 8, 2012, through January 3, 2013. Braun Rampvans are Toyota Sienna minivans that have been modified for special use. The Braun-specific toe pan panel comes in close proximity to the accelerator pedal lever.
What can happen if it is not put right?
If there is interference, the pedal may not return to the idle position which may produce unintended acceleration. This could increase the risk of a vehicle crash.
Is there a fix yet?
Yes, and it is free. Braun will notify owners, and Braun dealers will modify the toe panel plastic as needed, free of charge. The recall began on February 7, 2013. This recall is being conducted by Braun and not by Toyota. Owners may contact Braun customer service center at 1-800-488-0359.
What should I do now?
Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.

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 there is interference, the pedal may not return to the idle position which may produce unintended acceleration. This could increase the risk of a vehicle crash.”

732vehicles potentially
affected
1model named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 11 January 2013owners told 7 February 2013today
The defect reached the regulator on 11 January 2013. Owners were written to 27 days later, on 7 February 2013. The median across the 14,869 American recalls that carry both dates is 41 days, and nine in ten owners are written to within 107. This campaign was quicker than most.
Campaign13V012
Filed byBraun Corporation
System at faultStructure
Reported to NHTSA11 January 2013
Model years2011-2013
Vehicles namedBRAUN RAMPVAN

What the notice says today

The consequence

If there is interference, the pedal may not return to the idle position which may produce unintended acceleration. This could increase the risk of a vehicle crash.

The remedy

Braun will notify owners, and Braun dealers will modify the toe panel plastic as needed, free of charge. The recall began on February 7, 2013. This recall is being conducted by Braun and not by Toyota. Owners may contact Braun customer service center at 1-800-488-0359.

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 13V012, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/13v012/

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 Braun notices we hold

All 33 Braun 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 13V012 on 23 August 2026, they were:

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 13V012 · how the whole register is watched

Put this notice on your site

A small badge that links here and names the register's reference. It costs one line of HTML and needs no key.

NHTSA 13V012, Braun Rampvan, every version kept at CarsMultiverse

The badge is free to use. It links to this page and nowhere else, and it never shows advertising.

Owners of these cars

No register publishes what happens after the letter. Owners do: tell us, in two taps.

Anonymous: no account, no cookie, nothing you type is stored beyond these choices. Figures appear once 3 owners have answered, and are published with the record under CC BY 4.0.

Email me if this recall changes

Cite, embed or query this notice

Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with a link to this page.

Embed

<a href="https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/13v012/"><img src="https://carsmultiverse.com/badge/recall/13v012/" alt="Recall record on CarsMultiverse" width="360" height="64"></a>

Data: JSON · API · for AI tools · MCP server https://carsmultiverse.com/mcp