Turtle Top Odyssey, model year 2016. Filed by Turtle Top and reported to NHTSA on 10 May 2016. 6 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Turtle Top is recalling certain model year 2016 Odyssey transit buses manufactured December 17, 2015, to March 29, 2016. These vehicles are equipped with seats that may separate from the base frame due to bolt failure. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety …
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.
Turtle Top's own number for this recall: 16E-037. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 16V281 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 16V281 cover?
- Turtle Top Odyssey, model year 2016.
- What is wrong with them?
- Turtle Top is recalling certain model year 2016 Odyssey transit buses manufactured December 17, 2015, to March 29, 2016. These vehicles are equipped with seats that may separate from the base frame due to bolt failure.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- In the event of a crash, the seat can separate from the base frame, increasing the risk of injury to the seat occupant.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Turtle Top will notify owners, and dealers will replace the seats, free of charge. The recall began on June 22, 2016. Owners may contact Turtle Top customer service at 1-574-831-4340. Turtle Top's number for this recall is 16E-037.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Turtle Top calls this recall 16E-037, 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: “In the event of a crash, the seat can separate from the base frame, increasing the risk of injury to the seat occupant.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 16V281 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Turtle Top |
| System at fault | Seats |
| Reported to NHTSA | 10 May 2016 |
| Model years | 2016-2016 |
| Vehicles named | TURTLE TOP ODYSSEY |
What the notice says today
The consequence
In the event of a crash, the seat can separate from the base frame, increasing the risk of injury to the seat occupant.
The remedy
Turtle Top will notify owners, and dealers will replace the seats, free of charge. The recall began on June 22, 2016. Owners may contact Turtle Top customer service at 1-574-831-4340. Turtle Top's number for this recall is 16E-037.
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 459 notices in the record whose component field names seats. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 44 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
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 16V281, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v281/
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 Turtle Top notices we hold
- 26V462: 2026 Terra Ford Transit buses
- 26V318: 2026 Terra Transit and Odyssey transit buses
- 24V356: 2024 Van Terra, Terra Transit, Odyssey, and Odyssey XL
- 20V141: 2019 Turtle Top Odyssey
- 18V603: 2013-2018 Turtle Top Odyssey, VanTerra, and Terra Transit transit buses, equipped with Ricon S-Series and K-Series Titanium Wheelchair Lifts
- 16V009: model year 2006-2014 Odyssey, 2008-2009 and 2011 Odyssey LT, 2007-2008 and 2010-2012 Odyssey XL, 2008 and 2012 Terra Transport and 2007-2008 and 2013 Van Terra
- 15V396: model year 2006-2014 Odyssey, 2011 Odyssey LT, 2006-2012 Terra Transport, 2014 Terra Transport, and 2014 Van Terra
- 13V263: model year 2007 through 2012 Odyssey, Terra Transport, and Van Terra
All 18 Turtle Top 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 16V281 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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5b28fd80 - 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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