Autocar Xpert, model years 2012 to 2015. Filed by Autocar Industries, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 2 July 2014. 287 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Autocar Industries, LLC (Autocar) is recalling certain model year 2012-2015 Xpert trucks manufactured November 30, 2011, to November 5, 2014 and having a 164-inch wheelbase and a sweeper body which is mounted with a gap between the cab and the body (where optional equipment could be installed). When being driven at …
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.
The maker's own number for this recall: M-1408. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 14V397 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 14V397 cover?
- Autocar Xpert, model years 2012-2015.
- What is wrong with them?
- Autocar Industries, LLC (Autocar) is recalling certain model year 2012-2015 Xpert trucks manufactured November 30, 2011, to November 5, 2014 and having a 164-inch wheelbase and a sweeper body which is mounted with a gap between the cab and the body (where optional equipment could be installed).
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The unexpected bounce may cause the operator to lose control of the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. The remedy for this recall is still under development. An interim notice was mailed to owners in August 2014. The recall began on November 20, 2014. Owners may contact Autocar customer service at 1-765-489-5499. Autocar's number for this recall is M-1408.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. The maker calls this recall M-1408, 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 unexpected bounce may cause the operator to lose control of the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 14V397 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Autocar Industries, LLC |
| System at fault | Structure:Frame And Members |
| Reported to NHTSA | 2 July 2014 |
| Model years | 2012-2015 |
| Vehicles named | AUTOCAR XPERT |
What the notice says today
The consequence
The unexpected bounce may cause the operator to lose control of the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
The remedy for this recall is still under development. An interim notice was mailed to owners in August 2014. The recall began on November 20, 2014. Owners may contact Autocar customer service at 1-765-489-5499. Autocar's number for this recall is M-1408.
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 901 notices in the record whose component field names structure. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 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 2014394, recorded 15 September 2014 (3 months after the American filing)
Matched on M1408, 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 14V397, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/14v397/
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.
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 14V397 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
2c179c13 - Consequence
aff3d486 - 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 14V397 · how the whole register is watched
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