New Flyer Xn40, New Flyer Xn60, model year 2016. Filed by New Flyer Industries Ltd. and reported to NHTSA on 20 September 2016. 38 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says New Flyer Industries Ltd. (New Flyer) is recalling certain model year 2016 New Flyer XN60 and XN40 Xcelsior transit buses manufactured June 22, 2016, to September 14, 2016, powered by compressed natural gas (CNG). The pressure relief device (PRD) of the CNG system may fracture and separate, allowing a high pressure …
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.
New Flyer's own number for this recall: R16-026. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 16V678 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 16V678 cover?
- New Flyer XN40, New Flyer XN60, model year 2016.
- What is wrong with them?
- New Flyer Industries Ltd. (New Flyer) is recalling certain model year 2016 New Flyer XN60 and XN40 Xcelsior transit buses manufactured June 22, 2016, to September 14, 2016, powered by compressed natural gas (CNG).
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An unexpected release of CNG gas in the presence of an ignition source increases the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. New Flyer has notified owners, and dealers will install new a vent tubing system and replace the PRD, free of charge. The recall began September 28, 2016. Owners may contact New Flyer customer service at 1-204-224-6706. New Flyer's number for this recall is R16-026.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. New Flyer calls this recall R16-026, 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: “An unexpected release of CNG gas in the presence of an ignition source increases the risk of a fire.”
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in the notice
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| Campaign | 16V678 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | New Flyer Industries Ltd. |
| System at fault | Fuel System, Other |
| Reported to NHTSA | 20 September 2016 |
| Model years | 2016-2016 |
| Vehicles named | NEW FLYER XN40, NEW FLYER XN60 |
This is not an ordinary campaign.
- Owners are told not to drive the vehicle at all. NHTSA applies this to a small minority of campaigns. 28 of the 1,399 we currently hold.
What the notice says today
The consequence
An unexpected release of CNG gas in the presence of an ignition source increases the risk of a fire.
The remedy
New Flyer has notified owners, and dealers will install new a vent tubing system and replace the PRD, free of charge. The recall began September 28, 2016. Owners may contact New Flyer customer service at 1-204-224-6706. New Flyer's number for this recall is R16-026. Note: Owners are advised to remove the vehicles from operation until the recall remedy can be applied.
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 145 notices in the record whose component field names fuel system, other. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 35 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 16V678, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v678/
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 New Flyer notices we hold
- 26V279: 2022 XE40 transit buses
- 26V151: 2021-2025 XE35, 2021-2026 XE40, 2023-2025 XE60, 2023-2026 XHE40, and 2024-2026 XHE60 transit buses equipped with Accelera ELFA 3 control systems V1 and V2
- 25V898: XD35, XDE35, XE35, XN35, XD40, XDE40, XE40, XHE40, XN40, XT40, XD60, XDE60, XE60, XN60, XT60, and XHE60 transit buses
- 25V631: 2019 XE35, 2021-2025 XE35, XE40, and XE60 transit buses
- 25V566: 2013, 2017-2025 XE40, 2019-2025 XE60, XE35, 2023-2025 XHE40, and 2024-2025 XHE60 buses
- 25V542: 2012-2025 Xcelsior buses
- 25V053: 2023-2024 XDE60, 2024 XD35, XD40, and XD60 transit buses equipped with Cummins L9 diesel engines
- 24V425: 2023 XD35, XD40, and XD60
All 43 New Flyer 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 16V678 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
30c7442d - Consequence
27f67d4c - 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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