Vanguard Oexspec Saf-Holland Tapered Axle, model year 9999. Filed by Vanguard National Parts OEX and reported to NHTSA on 17 December 2015. 768 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Vanguard National Parts OEX (Vanguard) is recalling certain SAF-Holland tapered axles, part numbers 24790745090, 24790175090, and 24790165090, manufactured January 17, 2012, to January 10, 2013. In the affected axles, the wheel end may separate from the axle due to an out of specification material thickness on the …
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.
Vanguard's own number for this recall: 15E-080. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 15E094 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 15E094 cover?
- Vanguard Oexspec Saf-Holland Tapered Axle.
- What is wrong with them?
- Vanguard National Parts OEX (Vanguard) is recalling certain SAF-Holland tapered axles, part numbers 24790745090, 24790175090, and 24790165090, manufactured January 17, 2012, to January 10, 2013.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A wheel end that separates from the trailer axle increases the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Vanguard will notify owners, and the affected axles will be inspected and replaced as necessary, free of charge. The recall began on February 9, 2016. Owners may contact Vanguard customer service at 1-219-253-2000, or SAF-Holland customer service at 1-888-396-6501.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Vanguard calls this recall 15E-080, 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: “A wheel end that separates from the trailer axle increases the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 15E094 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Vanguard National Parts OEX |
| System at fault | Suspension:Rear:Axle:Spindle |
| Reported to NHTSA | 17 December 2015 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | VANGUARD OEXSPEC SAF-HOLLAND TAPERED AXLE |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A wheel end that separates from the trailer axle increases the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Vanguard will notify owners, and the affected axles will be inspected and replaced as necessary, free of charge. The recall began on February 9, 2016. Owners may contact Vanguard customer service at 1-219-253-2000, or SAF-Holland customer service at 1-888-396-6501. Vanguard's number for this recall is 15E-080.
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 732 notices in the record whose component field names suspension. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 33 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 15E094, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/15e094/
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 Vanguard notices we hold
- 25V385: all 2021-2023 VXP 28-Foot Pup trailers
- 23V497: all 2023-2024 trailer models built after November 2022 and equipped with a SAF Holland Tire Pilot Plus (TPP) tire inflation system
- 22V345: two 2022 VIP 53 ft
- 10V580: MODEL YEAR 2011 COOL GLOBE TRAILERS EQUIPPED WITH ARVIN MERITOR SUSPENSION SYSTEMS
All 5 Vanguard 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 15E094 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
c8649502 - Consequence
68165e61 - Remedy
80a8f893
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 15E094 · how the whole register is watched
Put this notice on your site
A small badge that links here and names the register's reference. It costs one line of HTML and needs no key.
The badge is free to use. It links to this page and nowhere else, and it never shows advertising.
Owners of these cars
No register publishes what happens after the letter. Owners do: tell us, in two taps.
Anonymous: no account, no cookie, nothing you type is stored beyond these choices. Figures appear once 3 owners have answered, and are published with the record under CC BY 4.0.
