Blue Bird Bus, Farber Cargo Mate Trailer, Ford E-450, Ford F-550 Sd, Freightliner M2, Freightliner Mbc, model years 1993 to 2014. Filed by Farber Specialty Vehicles and reported to NHTSA on 25 February 2015. 117 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Farber Specialty Vehicles (Farber) is recalling various specialty vehicles modified by Farber and equipped with model S2005, S2010, S5005, S5010, S5505, and S5510 wheelchair lifts manufactured by Ricon Corporation. The platform side plate of the affected wheelchair lifts may crack.
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.
Farber's own number for this recall: 14E-041. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 15V112 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 15V112 cover?
- Blue Bird Bus, Farber Cargo Mate Trailer, Ford E-450, Ford F-550 SD, Freightliner M2, Freightliner MBC, Freightliner XCS, GMC C6500, model years 1993-2014.
- What is wrong with them?
- Farber Specialty Vehicles (Farber) is recalling various specialty vehicles modified by Farber and equipped with model S2005, S2010, S5005, S5010, S5505, and S5510 wheelchair lifts manufactured by Ricon Corporation. The platform side plate of the affected wheelchair lifts may crack.
- 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. Farber will notify owners to take their vehicles 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 on March 24, 2015.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Farber 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 | 15V112 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Farber Specialty Vehicles |
| System at fault | Equipment Adaptive/Mobility |
| Reported to NHTSA | 25 February 2015 |
| Model years | 1993-2014 |
| Vehicles named | BLUE BIRD BUS, FARBER CARGO MATE TRAILER, FORD E-450, FORD F-550 SD, FREIGHTLINER M2, FREIGHTLINER MBC, FREIGHTLINER XCS, GMC C6500, STRICK TRAILER, UTILIMASTER CHEVROLET C5500, UTILIMASTER MT55, WINNEBAGO WFE30W, WINNEBAGO WFF31S, WINNEBAGO WFF38S |
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
Farber will notify owners to take their vehicles 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 on March 24, 2015. Owners may contact Farber customer service at 1-800-331-3188, or Ricon customer service at 1-800-322-2884. Farber'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-450 recalls: 28 US campaigns
- Ford F-550 SD recalls: 50 US campaigns
- Freightliner M2 recalls: 41 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 15V112, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/15v112/
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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- 19V431: specialty
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- 14V799: model year 2005-2008 Winnebago WFG38S
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All 9 Farber 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 15V112 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
193c2133 - 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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