Chevrolet Express 3500, Dodge Sprinter 3500, Ford E-150, Ford E-250, Ford E-350, Ford Transit Connect, model years 2006 to 2014. Filed by Cummings Mobility Conversion & Supply and reported to NHTSA on 5 November 2014. 34 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Cummings Mobility Conversion & Supply (Cummings) is recalling certain model year 2006-2014 Ford E-150, E-250, E-350, Chevrolet Express, 2006-2008 Dodge Sprinter, and 2009-2014 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, and 2013 Ford Transit Connect vehicles manufactured January 1, 2006, to October 8, 2014, equipped with certain model …
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Cummings's own number for this recall: 14E-041. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 14V706 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 14V706 cover?
- Chevrolet Express 3500, Dodge Sprinter 3500, Ford E-150, Ford E-250, Ford E-350, Ford Transit Connect, Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 3500, model years 2006-2014.
- What is wrong with them?
- Cummings Mobility Conversion & Supply (Cummings) is recalling certain model year 2006-2014 Ford E-150, E-250, E-350, Chevrolet Express, 2006-2008 Dodge Sprinter, and 2009-2014 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, and 2013 Ford Transit Connect vehicles manufactured January 1, 2006, to October 8, 2014, equipped...
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the platform side plates crack, the lift platform can separate from the lift and come to rest against the vehicle's lift door. When the doors are opened, the platform may fall out, increasing the risk of injury to the lift operator.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Cummings will notify owners to take buses to a Ricon dealer or service center who will install supplemental platform support bumpers. Any platform that has already started cracking will be replaced, free of charge. The recall began January 13, 2015.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Cummings calls this recall 14E-041, 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 platform side plates crack, the lift platform can separate from the lift and come to rest against the vehicle's lift door. When the doors are opened, the platform may fall out, increasing the risk of injury to the lift operator.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 14V706 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Cummings Mobility Conversion & Supply |
| System at fault | Equipment Adaptive/Mobility |
| Reported to NHTSA | 5 November 2014 |
| Model years | 2006-2014 |
| Vehicles named | CHEVROLET EXPRESS 3500, DODGE SPRINTER 3500, FORD E-150, FORD E-250, FORD E-350, FORD TRANSIT CONNECT, MERCEDES-BENZ SPRINTER 3500 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the platform side plates crack, the lift platform can separate from the lift and come to rest against the vehicle's lift door. When the doors are opened, the platform may fall out, increasing the risk of injury to the lift operator.
The remedy
Cummings will notify owners to take buses to a Ricon dealer or service center who will install supplemental platform support bumpers. Any platform that has already started cracking will be replaced, free of charge. The recall began January 13, 2015. Owners may contact Cumming's customer service at 1-800-639-5438 or Ricon customer service at 1-800-322-2884. Cumming's number for this recall is 14E-041.
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 289 notices in the record whose component field names equipment adaptive/mobility. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 36 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Ford E-150 recalls: 14 US campaigns
- Ford E-250 recalls: 20 US campaigns
- Ford E-350 recalls: 39 US campaigns
- Ford Transit Connect recalls: 31 US campaigns
- Mercedes Benz Sprinter 3500 recalls: 3 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 14V706, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/14v706/
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 14V706 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
03076e0c - Consequence
5063d6ce - 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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