Spartan Motors Transit Bus Chassis Cab, model years 2011 to 2015. Filed by Spartan Motors USA and reported to NHTSA on 19 July 2016. 39 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Spartan Motors USA (Spartan) is recalling certain model year 2011-2015 Transit Bus Chassis Cabs manufactured June 16, 2011, to December 1, 2015, and built to be completed as transit buses powered by compressed natural gas (CNG). These chassis cabs have frames that may crack.
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.
The maker's own number for this recall: 16019. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 16V537 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 16V537 cover?
- Spartan Motors Transit Bus Chassis Cab, model years 2011-2015.
- What is wrong with them?
- Spartan Motors USA (Spartan) is recalling certain model year 2011-2015 Transit Bus Chassis Cabs manufactured June 16, 2011, to December 1, 2015, and built to be completed as transit buses powered by compressed natural gas (CNG). These chassis cabs have frames that may crack.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The cracked frame may reduce the driver's ability to control the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Spartan has notified owners, and dealers will weld any cracked frames as an interim fix. For the final remedy, the dealers will add reinforcement to both chassis rails, free of charge. An interim notice was sent to owners on July 18, 2016. The recall began on October 5, 2016.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. The maker calls this recall 16019, 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: “The cracked frame may reduce the driver's ability to control the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 16V537 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Spartan Motors USA |
| System at fault | Structure:Frame And Members |
| Reported to NHTSA | 19 July 2016 |
| Model years | 2011-2015 |
| Vehicles named | SPARTAN MOTORS TRANSIT BUS CHASSIS CAB |
What the notice says today
The consequence
The cracked frame may reduce the driver's ability to control the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Spartan has notified owners, and dealers will weld any cracked frames as an interim fix. For the final remedy, the dealers will add reinforcement to both chassis rails, free of charge. An interim notice was sent to owners on July 18, 2016. The recall began on October 5, 2016. Owners may contact Spartan customer service at 1-517-543-6400. Spartan's number for this recall is 16019.
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 901 notices in the record whose component field names structure. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 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 16V537, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v537/
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 16V537 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
c52fea4e - Consequence
3395f17f - 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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