Aston Martin Db9, Aston Martin Dbs, Aston Martin V12 Vantage Coupe, Aston Martin V8 Vantage, Aston Martin Virage, model years 2006 to 2014. Filed by Aston Martin Lagonda of North America and reported to NHTSA on 25 November 2014. 7,256 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Aston Martin Lagonda of North America (Aston Martin) is recalling certain model year 2006-2014 DB9, V12 Vantage, V8 Vantage, DBS, and Virage vehicles manufactured July 3, 2006, to November 5, 2014. In the affected vehicles, the electronic control module for the driver and front passenger seat heaters may fail, …
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.
Aston Martin's own number for this recall: RA-01-0019. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 14V753 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 14V753 cover?
- Aston Martin DB9, Aston Martin DBS, Aston Martin V12 Vantage Coupe, Aston Martin V8 Vantage, Aston Martin Virage, model years 2006-2014.
- What is wrong with them?
- Aston Martin Lagonda of North America (Aston Martin) is recalling certain model year 2006-2014 DB9, V12 Vantage, V8 Vantage, DBS, and Virage vehicles manufactured July 3, 2006, to November 5, 2014.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the electronic control module fails, the seat heater could get hot enough that areas of the seat may overheat and smolder, increasing the risk of injury to the seat occupant.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Aston Martin will notify owners, and dealers will install an additional module to the circuit that can interrupt the power to the seat heaters in case the electronic control module for the seat heaters fails, free of charge. The recall began in January 2015.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Aston Martin calls this recall RA-01-0019, 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 electronic control module fails, the seat heater could get hot enough that areas of the seat may overheat and smolder, increasing the risk of injury to the seat occupant.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 14V753 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Aston Martin Lagonda of North America |
| System at fault | Seats:Front Assembly:Seat Heater/Cooler |
| Reported to NHTSA | 25 November 2014 |
| Model years | 2006-2014 |
| Vehicles named | ASTON MARTIN DB9, ASTON MARTIN DBS, ASTON MARTIN V12 VANTAGE COUPE, ASTON MARTIN V8 VANTAGE, ASTON MARTIN VIRAGE |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the electronic control module fails, the seat heater could get hot enough that areas of the seat may overheat and smolder, increasing the risk of injury to the seat occupant.
The remedy
Aston Martin will notify owners, and dealers will install an additional module to the circuit that can interrupt the power to the seat heaters in case the electronic control module for the seat heaters fails, free of charge. The recall began in January 2015. Owners may contact Aston Martin Customer Service by calling 1-888-923-9988. Aston Martin's number for this recall is RA-01-0019.
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 459 notices in the record whose component field names seats. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 44 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 2014543, recorded 3 December 2014 (8 days after the American filing)
Matched on RA010019, 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
- Aston Martin DB9 recalls: 6 US campaigns
- Aston Martin DBS recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Aston Martin V12 Vantage Coupe recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Aston Martin V8 Vantage recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Aston Martin Virage recalls: 5 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 14V753, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/14v753/
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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- 25V300: 2024 Valkyrie
- 25V001: 2024-2025 DB12, 2025 Vantage, and 2025 DBX707
- 24V712: 2024-2025 DBX707, 2024-2025 DB12, and 2025 Vantage
- 24V255: 2021-2024 DBX
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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 14V753 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
bc0733c2 - Consequence
91939326 - 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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