Guzzler Guzzcavator, Vactor Hxx, model years 2010 to 2014. Filed by Vactor Manufacturing and reported to NHTSA on 28 March 2014. 106 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Vactor Manufacturing Inc. (Vactor) is recalling certain model year 2012-2013 HXX-Fan, 2010-2014 HXX-Prodigy, and 2012-2014 HXX-PD and Guzzler Guzzcavator vacuum excavation trucks. In the affected vehicles, the water heater and/or cabinet that is mounted to the subframe chassis may come loose due to incorrect fasteners …
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.
Vactor's own number for this recall: SB-268. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 14V159 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 14V159 cover?
- Guzzler Guzzcavator, Vactor HXX, model years 2010-2014.
- What is wrong with them?
- Vactor Manufacturing Inc. (Vactor) is recalling certain model year 2012-2013 HXX-Fan, 2010-2014 HXX-Prodigy, and 2012-2014 HXX-PD and Guzzler Guzzcavator vacuum excavation trucks.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the water heater comes loose and falls off the chassis while the vehicle is being driven, the heater may become a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Vactor will notify owners, and dealers will correct the mounting hardware, free of charge. The recall began on May 20, 2014. Owners may contact Vactor at 1-847-622-7069. Vactor's number for this recall is SB-268.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Vactor calls this recall SB-268, 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 water heater comes loose and falls off the chassis while the vehicle is being driven, the heater may become a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 14V159 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Vactor Manufacturing |
| System at fault | Equipment:Appliance:Electric Water Heater |
| Reported to NHTSA | 28 March 2014 |
| Model years | 2010-2014 |
| Vehicles named | GUZZLER GUZZCAVATOR, VACTOR HXX |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the water heater comes loose and falls off the chassis while the vehicle is being driven, the heater may become a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Vactor will notify owners, and dealers will correct the mounting hardware, free of charge. The recall began on May 20, 2014. Owners may contact Vactor at 1-847-622-7069. Vactor's number for this recall is SB-268.
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.
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 14V159, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/14v159/
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 Vactor notices we hold
- 20V050: 2017-2020 Vactor 2100i
- 18V133: 2011-2017 HXX and 2100 Plus vacuum excavator trucks
- 17V367: 2015-2017 Vactor Jetter
- 15V379: model year 2014-2015 Vactor HXX PD, HXX Fan, HXX Prodigy, and 2100 Plus, and Guzzler Guzzcavator trucks manufactured January 10, 2014, to June 2, 2015
- 13V119: model year 2012-2013 HXX and Guzzler vacuum trucks equipped with an Alkota water heater
- 11V477: MODEL YEAR 2010-2011 JETTER-F AND JETTER-V SEWER CLEANERS MANUFACTURED FROM FEBRUARY 2010, THROUGH APRIL 2011
- 10V146: MODEL YEAR 1992 THROUGH 2010 MODEL 2103 SEWER CLEANERS MANUFACTURED BETWEEN DECEMBER 1992 AND MARCH 2010
All 8 Vactor 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 14V159 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
944899cd - Consequence
bca5cda8 - Remedy
18724f82
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 14V159 · how the whole register is watched
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Vactor HXX, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
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.
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.