Spartan Gladiator, Spartan Metrostar, model years 2012 to 2013. Filed by Spartan Motors, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 28 February 2013. 27 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Spartan Motors Chassis, Inc., a subsidiary of Spartan Motors, is recalling certain model year 2012-2013 Metro Star and Gladiator fire trucks manufactured from March 29, 2012, through January 30, 2013 and equipped with a Spartan advanced protection system (APS) supplied by Takata Protection Systems. The circuits on 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.
The maker's own number for this recall: 13-004. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 13V066 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 13V066 cover?
- Spartan Gladiator, Spartan Metrostar, model years 2012-2013.
- What is wrong with them?
- Spartan Motors Chassis, Inc., a subsidiary of Spartan Motors, is recalling certain model year 2012-2013 Metro Star and Gladiator fire trucks manufactured from March 29, 2012, through January 30, 2013 and equipped with a Spartan advanced protection system (APS) supplied by Takata Protection Systems.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An inadvertent air bag deployment could result in personal injury or increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Spartan Motors will notify owners, and dealers will install a new sub-wire harness on the control module of the APS, free of charge. The recall is expected to begin in March 2013. Owners may contact Spartan at 1-800-543-5008 - Option 4.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. The maker calls this recall 13-004, 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: “An inadvertent air bag deployment could result in personal injury or increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 13V066 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Spartan Motors, Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System |
| Reported to NHTSA | 28 February 2013 |
| Model years | 2012-2013 |
| Vehicles named | SPARTAN GLADIATOR, SPARTAN METROSTAR |
What the notice says today
The consequence
An inadvertent air bag deployment could result in personal injury or increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Spartan Motors will notify owners, and dealers will install a new sub-wire harness on the control module of the APS, free of charge. The recall is expected to begin in March 2013. Owners may contact Spartan at 1-800-543-5008 - Option 4.
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.
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 13V066, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/13v066/
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.
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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 13V066 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
d9d3b710 - Consequence
b63f448c - 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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