Spartan Advantage, Spartan Diamond, Spartan Gladiator, Spartan Metrostar, model years 2006 to 2013. Filed by Spartan Motors, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 6 October 2014. 389 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Spartan Motors, Inc. (Spartan) is recalling certain model year 2006-2013 Advantage, Diamond, Gladiator, and MetroStar emergency vehicles manufactured November 29, 2005, to June 19, 2013. In the affected vehicles, the transmission fluid cooler may fail, allowing the engine coolant to mix with the transmission fluid.
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.
Spartan's own number for this recall: 14017. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 14V623 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 14V623 cover?
- Spartan Advantage, Spartan Diamond, Spartan Gladiator, Spartan Metrostar, model years 2006-2013.
- What is wrong with them?
- Spartan Motors, Inc. (Spartan) is recalling certain model year 2006-2013 Advantage, Diamond, Gladiator, and MetroStar emergency vehicles manufactured November 29, 2005, to June 19, 2013.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the engine coolant mixes with the transmission fluid, the transmission may not shift properly, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Spartan will notify owners and dealers will install a new transmission fluid cooler, free of charge. Parts are not currently available. Owners were mailed an interim notification on November 25, 2014 and will also be mailed a second letter when parts are available.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Spartan calls this recall 14017, 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 engine coolant mixes with the transmission fluid, the transmission may not shift properly, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 14V623 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Spartan Motors, Inc. |
| System at fault | Power Train:Automatic Transmission:Cooling Unit And Lines |
| Reported to NHTSA | 6 October 2014 |
| Model years | 2006-2013 |
| Vehicles named | SPARTAN ADVANTAGE, SPARTAN DIAMOND, SPARTAN GLADIATOR, SPARTAN METROSTAR |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the engine coolant mixes with the transmission fluid, the transmission may not shift properly, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Spartan will notify owners and dealers will install a new transmission fluid cooler, free of charge. Parts are not currently available. Owners were mailed an interim notification on November 25, 2014 and will also be mailed a second letter when parts are available. Parts should be available in mid to late January 2015. The recall began on February 9, 2015. Owners may contact Spartan customer service at 1-517-543-6400. Spartan's number for this recall is 14017.
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 816 notices in the record whose component field names power train. 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 2014019, recorded 23 January 2014 (9 months before the American filing)
Matched on 14017, 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
- Spartan Advantage recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Spartan Diamond recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Spartan Gladiator recalls: 57 US campaigns
- Spartan Metrostar recalls: 47 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 14V623, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/14v623/
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 Spartan notices we hold
- 25V910: 2021-2023, 2025 Spartan Fire Legend, 2007, 2015-2026 Star Series, and 2019-2020 UST Body emergency
- 25V584: 2023-2026 Gladiator, Metrostar, FC-94, KME Panther, and 2024-2025 Predator
- 24V799: 2024-2025 Metro Star, FC-94, 2025 Gladiator, and KME Panther
- 20V492: one 2018 Gladiator vehicle equipped with Code 3 7x9 Stop-Tail-Turn Reverse All-in-One LED stop, tail, turn, and reverse lights
- 20V216: 2020-2021 FLT Utilimaster Truck Body
- 20V138: 2019-2020 Fire Gladiator and MetroStar Emergency
- 20V065: 2019 Utilimaster Sprinter
- 19V674: 2004-2020 Emergency Response Gladiator and Spartan
All 97 Spartan 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 14V623 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
1ddd22de - Consequence
133e0c22 - 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 14V623 · how the whole register is watched
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