Nova Bus Lfs, Nova Bus Nova Lfs, model years 2010 to 2014. Filed by Nova Bus and reported to NHTSA on 30 June 2014. 734 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Nova Bus is recalling certain model year 2010-2014 LFS transit buses manufactured June 2010 to June 2014. In the affected vehicles, the terminal on the postive alternator cable may fracture causing the cable to arc to other components.
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.
Nova Bus's own number for this recall: CR3201. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 14V381 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 14V381 cover?
- Nova Bus LFS, Nova Bus Nova LFS, model years 2010-2014.
- What is wrong with them?
- Nova Bus is recalling certain model year 2010-2014 LFS transit buses manufactured June 2010 to June 2014. In the affected vehicles, the terminal on the postive alternator cable may fracture causing the cable to arc to other components.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Arcing of the alternator cable may result in an engine compartment fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Nova Bus will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the terminal and replace it if it is damaged, free of charge. The recall began August 29, 2014. Owners may contact Nova Bus customer service at 1-450-472-6410. Nova Bus' number for this recall is CR3201.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Nova Bus calls this recall CR3201, 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: “Arcing of the alternator cable may result in an engine compartment fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 14V381 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Nova Bus |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Alternator/Generator/Regulator |
| Reported to NHTSA | 30 June 2014 |
| Model years | 2010-2014 |
| Vehicles named | NOVA BUS LFS, NOVA BUS NOVA LFS |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Arcing of the alternator cable may result in an engine compartment fire.
The remedy
Nova Bus will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the terminal and replace it if it is damaged, free of charge. The recall began August 29, 2014. Owners may contact Nova Bus customer service at 1-450-472-6410. Nova Bus' number for this recall is CR3201.
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 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 2014263, recorded 27 June 2014 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on CR3201, 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 14V381, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/14v381/
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 Nova Bus notices we hold
- 26V355: 1997-2002, 2005-2024 LFS, 2009-2014, and 2016 - 2024 LFS Artic transit buses
- 26V300: 2019-2020 LFS Artic and 2019-2023 LFS transit buses
- 26V275: 2022-2023 LFS transit buses
- 26V206: 2025 LFS and 2024 LFS Artic transit buses
- 26V182: 2016-2018, 2020, 2022-2023 LFS and 2019-2020 LFS Artic transit buses
- 26V077: 2013-2019 LFS and 2019-2020 LFS Artic transit buses equipped with Double Transversal seats
- 26E019: Ricon hidden frame windows sold through Prevost Parts and Prevost Service Center
- 25V822: 2021 and 2024-2025 LFS transit buses
All 94 Nova Bus 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 14V381 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
87a15c43 - Consequence
77e30497 - 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.
The wording we hold for 14V381 · how the whole register is watched
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