Nabi Brt, Nabi Lfw, model years 2013 to 2014. Filed by NABI Bus, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 25 February 2014. 269 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says NABI Bus, LLC (NABI) is recalling certain 2013-2014 LFW and BRT city transit buses manufactured January 1, 2013, through February 20, 2014, and equipped with certain Cummins Westport Model ISL G. Condensation in the intake manifold may freeze during cold weather conditions and interfere with the proper operation of …
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.
Nabi's own number for this recall: 20141. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 14V081 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 14V081 cover?
- Nabi BRT, Nabi LFW, model years 2013-2014.
- What is wrong with them?
- NABI Bus, LLC (NABI) is recalling certain 2013-2014 LFW and BRT city transit buses manufactured January 1, 2013, through February 20, 2014, and equipped with certain Cummins Westport Model ISL G.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The improper operation of the sensor could induce elevated exhaust temperatures or flames from the exhaust pipe, increasing the risk of a vehicle fire or burn injury to a person near the exhaust pipe.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Cummins Inc. and Cummins Wesport Inc. will work with NABI and notify owners, and dealers will upload a new ECM calibration, free of charge. The recall began on April 21, 2014. Customers can contact NABI at 1-256-831-4926 or Cummins Inc. at 1-800-343-7357.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Nabi calls this recall 20141, 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 improper operation of the sensor could induce elevated exhaust temperatures or flames from the exhaust pipe, increasing the risk of a vehicle fire or burn injury to a person near the exhaust pipe.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 14V081 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | NABI Bus, LLC |
| System at fault | Engine And Engine Cooling:Engine |
| Reported to NHTSA | 25 February 2014 |
| Model years | 2013-2014 |
| Vehicles named | NABI BRT, NABI LFW |
What the notice says today
The consequence
The improper operation of the sensor could induce elevated exhaust temperatures or flames from the exhaust pipe, increasing the risk of a vehicle fire or burn injury to a person near the exhaust pipe.
The remedy
Cummins Inc. and Cummins Wesport Inc. will work with NABI and notify owners, and dealers will upload a new ECM calibration, free of charge. The recall began on April 21, 2014. Customers can contact NABI at 1-256-831-4926 or Cummins Inc. at 1-800-343-7357. NABI's recall number for this campaign is 20141.
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 588 notices in the record whose component field names engine and engine cooling. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 47 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 14V081, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/14v081/
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 Nabi notices we hold
- 15V296: model year 2007-2015 LFW and BRT transit buses and 2007-2013 CLFW transit buses
- 15V129: model year 2014 40LFW city transit buses manufactured September 12, 2014, to December 31, 2014
- 14V508: model year 2014 LFW and BRT transit buses manufactured May 2, 2014, to August 8, 2014
- 14V296: model year 2012 31LFW city transit buses manufactured April 27, 2012, through December 16, 2012
- 13V597: model year 2013 40LFW and 31LFW transit buses equipped with painted steel wheels
- 13V247: model year 2003-2013 45CLFW and 2013 40CLFW transit buses manufactured November 1, 2008, through June 7, 2013
- 13V108: model year 2012-2013 40LFW transit buses manufactured November 10, 2012, through March 10, 2013, and equipped with adjustable brake and throttle pedals
- 13V011: model year 2007-2009 Blue Bird L4RE transit buses manufactured July 1, 2007, through October 31, 2009
All 15 Nabi 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 14V081 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
5689db8b - Consequence
442a77b9 - 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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