Nova Bus Lfs, Nova Bus Lfs Artic, model years 2012 to 2015. Filed by Nova Bus and reported to NHTSA on 8 June 2016. 914 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Nova Bus (Nova) is recalling certain model year 2012-2015 Nova LFS and LFS Artic transit buses manufactured from June 18, 2012, through October 19, 2015. The affected transit buses have destinations signs that may not be properly secured and, as a result, the sign may fall.
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.
Nova Bus's own number for this recall: CR3539. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 16V412 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 16V412 cover?
- Nova Bus LFS, Nova Bus LFS Artic, model years 2012-2015.
- What is wrong with them?
- Nova Bus (Nova) is recalling certain model year 2012-2015 Nova LFS and LFS Artic transit buses manufactured from June 18, 2012, through October 19, 2015. The affected transit buses have destinations signs that may not be properly secured and, as a result, the sign may fall.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If an sign falls, there is an increased risk of injury to anyone under or standing near the sign.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Nova will notify owners, and dealers will inspect and secure the sign as necessary, free of charge. The recall began on July 20, 2016. Owners may contact Nova customer service at 1-450-472-6410. Nova's recall number for this campaign is CR3539.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Nova Bus calls this recall CR3539, 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 an sign falls, there is an increased risk of injury to anyone under or standing near the sign.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 16V412 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Nova Bus |
| System at fault | Equipment |
| Reported to NHTSA | 8 June 2016 |
| Model years | 2012-2015 |
| Vehicles named | NOVA BUS LFS, NOVA BUS LFS ARTIC |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If an sign falls, there is an increased risk of injury to anyone under or standing near the sign.
The remedy
Nova will notify owners, and dealers will inspect and secure the sign as necessary, free of charge. The recall began on July 20, 2016. Owners may contact Nova customer service at 1-450-472-6410. Nova's recall number for this campaign is CR3539.
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.
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 16V412, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v412/
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.
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 16V412 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
7683370e - Consequence
bbfcd7f5 - 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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