Ic Bus Be, Ic Bus Ce, model years 2011 to 2016. Filed by Navistar, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 18 November 2016. 157 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Navistar, Inc. (Navistar) is recalling certain model year 2011-2016 IC Bus CE transit buses manufactured July 1, 2010, to February 4, 2015, and one IC Bus BE transit bus manufactured on November 2, 2010. The affected vehicles have a water shutoff valve, inside, forward of driver heater (feature code 48PPJ or 48PPP) …
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.
Navistar's own number for this recall: 16511. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 16V838 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 16V838 cover?
- Ic Bus Be, Ic Bus Ce, model years 2011-2016.
- What is wrong with them?
- Navistar, Inc. (Navistar) is recalling certain model year 2011-2016 IC Bus CE transit buses manufactured July 1, 2010, to February 4, 2015, and one IC Bus BE transit bus manufactured on November 2, 2010.
- 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 16511.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Navistar calls this recall 16511, 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 | 16V838 |
|---|---|
| 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 CE |
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 16511.
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 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 16V838, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v838/
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.
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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 16V838 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
10a7c265 - 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.
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