Prevost H3-41, Prevost H3-45, Prevost H3-Vip, Prevost X3-45 Coach, Prevost X3-Vip, Prevost Xl2 Entertainer, model years 2011 to 2016. Filed by Prevost Cars, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 4 March 2016. 1,348 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Prevost Cars, Inc. (Prevost) is recalling certain model year 2012-2016 H3-41 and H3-45, 2011-2016 H3-VIP, 2011-2016 X3-45 Coach vehicles, 2012-2016 X3-VIP vehicles, and 2011-2013 XL2 Entertainer vehicles. The coolant line on the affected vehicles may be missing a positioning clip, allowing the coolant line to rub …
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.
Prevost's own number for this recall: SR16-18. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 16V133 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 16V133 cover?
- Prevost H3-41, Prevost H3-45, Prevost H3-Vip, Prevost X3-45 Coach, Prevost X3-Vip, Prevost XL2 Entertainer, model years 2011-2016.
- What is wrong with them?
- Prevost Cars, Inc. (Prevost) is recalling certain model year 2012-2016 H3-41 and H3-45, 2011-2016 H3-VIP, 2011-2016 X3-45 Coach vehicles, 2012-2016 X3-VIP vehicles, and 2011-2013 XL2 Entertainer vehicles.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Contact between the fuel line and the coolant line may cause a fuel leak and result in fuel spraying onto hot exhaust components increasing the risk of an engine compartment fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Prevost will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the fuel line for abrasion, replacing it as necessary. The fuel and coolant lines will be properly secured. These repairs will be performed free of charge. The recall began on April 20, 2016.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Prevost calls this recall SR16-18, 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: “Contact between the fuel line and the coolant line may cause a fuel leak and result in fuel spraying onto hot exhaust components increasing the risk of an engine compartment fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 16V133 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Prevost Cars, Inc. |
| System at fault | Engine And Engine Cooling:Cooling System:Hoses/Lines/Piping/Fittings |
| Reported to NHTSA | 4 March 2016 |
| Model years | 2011-2016 |
| Vehicles named | PREVOST H3-41, PREVOST H3-45, PREVOST H3-VIP, PREVOST X3-45 COACH, PREVOST X3-VIP, PREVOST XL2 ENTERTAINER |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Contact between the fuel line and the coolant line may cause a fuel leak and result in fuel spraying onto hot exhaust components increasing the risk of an engine compartment fire.
The remedy
Prevost will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the fuel line for abrasion, replacing it as necessary. The fuel and coolant lines will be properly secured. These repairs will be performed free of charge. The recall began on April 20, 2016. Owners may contact Prevost customer service at 1-418-883-3391. Prevost's number for this recall is SR16-18.
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 588 notices in the record whose component field names engine and engine cooling. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 47 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 2016108, recorded 4 March 2016 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on SR1618, 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
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 16V133, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v133/
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 Prevost notices we hold
- 26V095: 2026 H3-45 and H3-45 VIP
- 26V093: 2025-2026 X3-45 commuter buses
- 26E008: exterior driver side mirrors with part number 990648
- 25V738: 2025 X3-45 Commuter buses
- 25V461: 2018-2019 X3-45 Commuter
- 25V460: 2025 X3-45 and 2025-2026 H3-45 coach buses
- 25V290: one 2025 X3-45 VIP Entertainer
- 25V243: 2025 Prevost H3-45 and X3-45 motorcoaches
All 87 Prevost 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 16V133 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
69e12426 - Consequence
4fa65b54 - 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.
The wording we hold for 16V133 · how the whole register is watched
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