Autocar Xpert, model years 2012 to 2014. Filed by Autocar Industries, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 19 March 2014. 207 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Autocar Industries, LLC (Autocar) is recalling certain model year 2012-2014 Xpert vehicles manufactured July 11, 2011, through March 5, 2014. The bolts used to anchor the seat belts may be insufficiently tight to withstand the forces experienced in certain crashes. As such, these vehicles do not conform to Federal …
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Autocar's own number for this recall: M-1401. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 14V133 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 14V133 cover?
- Autocar Xpert, model years 2012-2014.
- What is wrong with them?
- Autocar Industries, LLC (Autocar) is recalling certain model year 2012-2014 Xpert vehicles manufactured July 11, 2011, through March 5, 2014. The bolts used to anchor the seat belts may be insufficiently tight to withstand the forces experienced in certain crashes.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the seat belt does not properly restrain the seat occupant, there is an increased risk of injury in the event of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Autocar will notify owners, and dealers will tighten the seat belt mounting bolts, free of charge. The recall is began in June 2014. Owners may contact Autocar at 1-765-489-5499. Autocar's number for this recall is M-1401.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Autocar calls this recall M-1401, 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 the seat belt does not properly restrain the seat occupant, there is an increased risk of injury in the event of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 14V133 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Autocar Industries, LLC |
| System at fault | Seat Belts |
| Reported to NHTSA | 19 March 2014 |
| Model years | 2012-2014 |
| Vehicles named | AUTOCAR XPERT |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the seat belt does not properly restrain the seat occupant, there is an increased risk of injury in the event of a crash.
The remedy
Autocar will notify owners, and dealers will tighten the seat belt mounting bolts, free of charge. The recall is began in June 2014. Owners may contact Autocar at 1-765-489-5499. Autocar's number for this recall is M-1401.
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 451 notices in the record whose component field names seat belts. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 48 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2014129, recorded 10 April 2014 (22 days after the American filing)
Matched on M1401, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
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 14V133, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/14v133/
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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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 14V133 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
ae40e7b9 - Consequence
91202f72 - 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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