Toyne Pumper, model years 2014 to 2015. Filed by Toyne Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 26 April 2016. 13 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Toyne Inc. (Toyne) is recalling certain model year 2014-2015 Spartan Metro Star emergency vehicles manufactured December 20, 2014, to June 3, 2015. These vehicles are equipped with certain K Gearboxes from Hale Products which may shift out of gear from "road" to "neutral" while the truck is in transit.
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.
Toyne's own number for this recall: SB 129. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 16V241 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 16V241 cover?
- Toyne Pumper, model years 2014-2015.
- What is wrong with them?
- Toyne Inc. (Toyne) is recalling certain model year 2014-2015 Spartan Metro Star emergency vehicles manufactured December 20, 2014, to June 3, 2015.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the vehicle unexpectedly shifts to neutral on the way to attend a fire, the delay may hinder fire fighting efforts. Additionally, the loss of drive may increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. All of the affected vehicles have been remedied by removing the gearbox, having Hale repair it and then reinstalling it, free of charge. Owners may contact Toyne customer service at 1-712-673-2328. Toyne's number for this recall is SB 129.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Toyne calls this recall SB 129, 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 vehicle unexpectedly shifts to neutral on the way to attend a fire, the delay may hinder fire fighting efforts. Additionally, the loss of drive may increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 16V241 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Toyne Inc. |
| System at fault | Power Train:Manual Transmission |
| Reported to NHTSA | 26 April 2016 |
| Model years | 2014-2015 |
| Vehicles named | TOYNE PUMPER |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the vehicle unexpectedly shifts to neutral on the way to attend a fire, the delay may hinder fire fighting efforts. Additionally, the loss of drive may increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
All of the affected vehicles have been remedied by removing the gearbox, having Hale repair it and then reinstalling it, free of charge. Owners may contact Toyne customer service at 1-712-673-2328. Toyne's number for this recall is SB 129.
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 816 notices in the record whose component field names power train. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 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 16V241, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v241/
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 Toyne notices we hold
- 21V535: 2020 Spartan MetroStar and Gladiator
- 19V925: vehicles built on 2018-2019 Spartan Emergency Response Metro Star and Gladiator chassis
- 18V919: 2017-2018 Fire Apparatus trucks, equipped with Whelen accessory brake lights
All 4 Toyne 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 16V241 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
c3be9ce6 - Consequence
52a3800f - 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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