Ic Bus Be, Ic Bus Casb, Ic Bus Ce, Ic Bus Cesb, model years 2011 to 2016. Filed by Navistar, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 18 November 2016. 20,673 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Navistar, Inc. (Navistar) is recalling certain model year 2011-2016 IC Bus CE school buses manufactured November 3, 2009, to February 26, 2015, and 2012-2015 IC Bus BE school buses manufactured August 2, 2010, to September 15, 2014. The affected vehicles have a water shutoff valve, inside, forward of driver heater …
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: 16510. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 16V837 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 16V837 cover?
- Ic Bus Be, Ic Bus Casb, Ic Bus Ce, Ic Bus Cesb, model years 2011-2016.
- What is wrong with them?
- Navistar, Inc. (Navistar) is recalling certain model year 2011-2016 IC Bus CE school buses manufactured November 3, 2009, to February 26, 2015, and 2012-2015 IC Bus BE school buses manufactured August 2, 2010, to September 15, 2014.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If hot, pressurized coolant suddenly spills into the operator's foot area, there is an increased risk of a burn injury or a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Navistar will notify owners, and dealers will replace the formed heater hose with a more robust one, free of charge. The recall began on January 4, 2017. Owners may contact Navistar customer service at 1-800-448-7825. Navistar's number for this recall is 16510.
- 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 16510, 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 hot, pressurized coolant suddenly spills into the operator's foot area, there is an increased risk of a burn injury or a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 16V837 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Navistar, Inc. |
| System at fault | Engine And Engine Cooling:Cooling System:Hoses/Lines/Piping/Fittings |
| Reported to NHTSA | 18 November 2016 |
| Model years | 2011-2016 |
| Vehicles named | IC BUS BE, IC BUS CASB, IC BUS CE, IC BUS CESB |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If hot, pressurized coolant suddenly spills into the operator's foot area, there is an increased risk of a burn injury or a crash.
The remedy
Navistar will notify owners, and dealers will replace the formed heater hose with a more robust one, free of charge. The recall began on January 4, 2017. Owners may contact Navistar customer service at 1-800-448-7825. Navistar's number for this recall is 16510.
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 588 notices in the record whose component field names engine and engine cooling. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 47 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2016569, recorded 16 November 2016 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 16510, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Ic Bus Be recalls: 20 US campaigns
- Ic Bus Casb recalls: 16 US campaigns
- Ic Bus Ce recalls: 57 US campaigns
- Ic Bus Cesb recalls: 60 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 16V837, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v837/
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 16V837 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
7aaf366f - Consequence
75d12da5 - 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.
The wording we hold for 16V837 · how the whole register is watched
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