Imt 10000 Series Iii Crane, Imt 12000 Series Iii Crane, Imt 14000 Series Iii Crane, Imt 6000 Series Iii Crane, Imt 7500 Series Iii Crane, Imt 8600 Series Iii Crane, model year 9999. Filed by Iowa Mold Tooling Co., Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 17 February 2016. 1,598 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Iowa Mold Tooling Co., Inc. (IMT) is recalling certain Series III Cranes, models 6000, 7500, 8600, 9500, 10000, 12000, and 14000, manufactured April 4, 2013, to January 22, 2016. The affected cranes have a valve bank cover that may crack and fall from the crane while the crane is being transported.
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.
Imt's own number for this recall: TB2016001. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 16E012 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 16E012 cover?
- Imt 10000 Series Iii Crane, Imt 12000 Series Iii Crane, Imt 14000 Series Iii Crane, Imt 6000 Series Iii Crane, Imt 7500 Series Iii Crane, Imt 8600 Series Iii Crane, Imt 9500 Series Iii Crane.
- What is wrong with them?
- Iowa Mold Tooling Co., Inc. (IMT) is recalling certain Series III Cranes, models 6000, 7500, 8600, 9500, 10000, 12000, and 14000, manufactured April 4, 2013, to January 22, 2016. The affected cranes have a valve bank cover that may crack and fall from the crane while the crane is being transported.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the valve bank cover detaches from the crane it could be a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. IMT will notify owners, and dealers will replace the valve cover with a thicker cover, free of charge. The recall is expected to begin during March 2016. Owners may contact IMT customer service at 1-800-247-5958. IMT's number for this recall is TB2016001.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Imt calls this recall TB2016001, 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 valve bank cover detaches from the crane it could be a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 16E012 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Iowa Mold Tooling Co., Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment |
| Reported to NHTSA | 17 February 2016 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | IMT 10000 SERIES III CRANE, IMT 12000 SERIES III CRANE, IMT 14000 SERIES III CRANE, IMT 6000 SERIES III CRANE, IMT 7500 SERIES III CRANE, IMT 8600 SERIES III CRANE, IMT 9500 SERIES III CRANE |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the valve bank cover detaches from the crane it could be a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
IMT will notify owners, and dealers will replace the valve cover with a thicker cover, free of charge. The recall is expected to begin during March 2016. Owners may contact IMT customer service at 1-800-247-5958. IMT's number for this recall is TB2016001.
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 2,632 notices in the record whose component field names equipment. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 29 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 16E012, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16e012/
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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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 16E012 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
505154a6 - Consequence
8ecc07ba - 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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