Ride The Ducks Amphibious Vehicle, model years 1996 to 2005. Filed by Ride The Ducks International LLC and reported to NHTSA on 11 August 2017. 57 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Ride the Ducks International LLC (RTDI) is recalling certain 1996-2005 "Stretch" Amphibious Passenger Vehicles. Due to excessive fatigue, the front axle housing on the affected vehicles may fracture at the connection point between the knuckle ball and the housing, possibly resulting in a loss of vehicle control.
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.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 17V501 cover?
- Ride The Ducks Amphibious Vehicle, model years 1996-2005.
- What is wrong with them?
- Ride the Ducks International LLC (RTDI) is recalling certain 1996-2005 "Stretch" Amphibious Passenger Vehicles.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loss of vehicle control can increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. RTDI will notify the company-owned operators and licensors will replace the front axles with one with a coupler welded to the axle, free of charge. The recall began on September 21, 2017. RTDI customer service can be contacted at 1-417-266-7600. Note: This recall supersedes recall 16V-859.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
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: “A loss of vehicle control can increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 17V501 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Ride The Ducks International LLC |
| System at fault | Power Train:Axle Assembly |
| Reported to NHTSA | 11 August 2017 |
| Model years | 1996-2005 |
| Vehicles named | RIDE THE DUCKS AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLE |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A loss of vehicle control can increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
RTDI will notify the company-owned operators and licensors will replace the front axles with one with a coupler welded to the axle, free of charge. The recall began on September 21, 2017. RTDI customer service can be contacted at 1-417-266-7600. Note: This recall supersedes recall 16V-859.
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 816 notices in the record whose component field names power train. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 17V501, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/17v501/
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 Ride The Ducks notices we hold
- 17V182: 1996-2014 Stretch Amphibious and Truck Amphibious passenger
- 17V165: 1996-2014 Stretch Amphibious Passenger and Truck Amphibious Passenger
- 17V164: 1999-2002 Stretch Amphibious passenger
All 4 Ride The Ducks 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 17V501 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
bdf1d7bc - Consequence
0bc58578 - 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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