Aev Traumahawk, model years 2016 to 2017. Filed by Halcore Group, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 13 September 2017. 4 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Halcore Group, Inc. (Halcore) is recalling certain 2016-2017 American Emergency Vehicles (AEV) Traumahawk type III ambulances, equipped with door striker bolts that may fail under load. As such, these bolts fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 206, "Door locks …
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Aev's own number for this recall: 17E-038. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 17V566 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 17V566 cover?
- Aev Traumahawk, model years 2016-2017.
- What is wrong with them?
- Halcore Group, Inc. (Halcore) is recalling certain 2016-2017 American Emergency Vehicles (AEV) Traumahawk type III ambulances, equipped with door striker bolts that may fail under load.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the door striker bolts fail under load, the door may open in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. AEV will notify owners, and dealers will replace the striker bolts, free of charge. The recall began on September 15, 2017. Owners may contact AEV customer service at 1-800-374-9749. Halcore's number for this recall is 17E-038.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Aev calls this recall 17E-038, 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 the door striker bolts fail under load, the door may open in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 17V566 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Halcore Group, Inc. |
| System at fault | Structure:Body:Door:Hinge And Attachments |
| Reported to NHTSA | 13 September 2017 |
| Model years | 2016-2017 |
| Vehicles named | AEV TRAUMAHAWK |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the door striker bolts fail under load, the door may open in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
AEV will notify owners, and dealers will replace the striker bolts, free of charge. The recall began on September 15, 2017. Owners may contact AEV customer service at 1-800-374-9749. Halcore's number for this recall is 17E-038.
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
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CarsMultiverse, recall 17V566, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/17v566/
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.
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- 19V608: 2018-2020 Horton Type I and Type III Emergency
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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 17V566 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
170cb573 - Consequence
db78ed24 - Remedy
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