Isuzu Reach, model years 2012 to 2013. Filed by Isuzu Manufacturing Services of America and reported to NHTSA on 17 April 2014. 1,770 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Isuzu Manufacturing Services of America, Inc. (Isuzu) is recalling certain model year 2012-2013 Reach stripped chassis manufactured July 26, 2011, through August 27, 2013. The horn switch contacts may be bent or may wear prematurely causing the horn not to work.
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.
Isuzu's own number for this recall: CB14-N-001. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 14V203 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 14V203 cover?
- Isuzu Reach, model years 2012-2013.
- What is wrong with them?
- Isuzu Manufacturing Services of America, Inc. (Isuzu) is recalling certain model year 2012-2013 Reach stripped chassis manufactured July 26, 2011, through August 27, 2013. The horn switch contacts may be bent or may wear prematurely causing the horn not to work.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An inoperable horn may increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Isuzu will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the horn contact shaft to see if it is bent or if it has premature wear, and replace the steering wheel combination switch if either condition is found, free of charge. Owners may contact Isuzu customer service at 1-866-441-9638.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Isuzu calls this recall CB14-N-001, 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 inoperable horn may increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 14V203 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Isuzu Manufacturing Services of America |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Horn |
| Reported to NHTSA | 17 April 2014 |
| Model years | 2012-2013 |
| Vehicles named | ISUZU REACH |
What the notice says today
The consequence
An inoperable horn may increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Isuzu will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the horn contact shaft to see if it is bent or if it has premature wear, and replace the steering wheel combination switch if either condition is found, free of charge. Owners may contact Isuzu customer service at 1-866-441-9638. Isuzu's number for this recall is CB14-N-001.
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 14V203, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/14v203/
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 14V203 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
7c31abd5 - Consequence
af8076bc - 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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