Syntec S3b Wall Mounted Seats, model year 9999. Filed by SynTec Seating Solutions, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 9 March 2018. 6,610 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Syntec Seating Solutions, LLC (Syntec) is recalling certain S3B Non-Restraint Wall Mounted Seats. The wall mounting bracket may crack, causing the seat to not remain secured in place in the event of a crash. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) …
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.
Syntec's own number for this recall: NRB100. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 18E015 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 18E015 cover?
- Syntec S3B Wall Mounted Seats.
- What is wrong with them?
- Syntec Seating Solutions, LLC (Syntec) is recalling certain S3B Non-Restraint Wall Mounted Seats. The wall mounting bracket may crack, causing the seat to not remain secured in place in the event of a crash.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- In the event of a crash, if the seat does not remain secured to the wall, the occupant has an increased risk of an injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Syntec will notify owners, and dealers will install an additional wall mounting bracket, free of charge. Syntec issued owners an interim notification on April 13, 2018. The recall began May 30, 2019. Owners may contact Syntec customer service at 1-336-862-7509.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Syntec calls this recall NRB100, 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: “In the event of a crash, if the seat does not remain secured to the wall, the occupant has an increased risk of an injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 18E015 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | SynTec Seating Solutions, LLC |
| System at fault | Seats |
| Reported to NHTSA | 9 March 2018 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | SYNTEC S3B WALL MOUNTED SEATS |
What the notice says today
The consequence
In the event of a crash, if the seat does not remain secured to the wall, the occupant has an increased risk of an injury.
The remedy
Syntec will notify owners, and dealers will install an additional wall mounting bracket, free of charge. Syntec issued owners an interim notification on April 13, 2018. The recall began May 30, 2019. Owners may contact Syntec customer service at 1-336-862-7509. Syntec's number for this recall is NRB100.
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 459 notices in the record whose component field names seats. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 44 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 18E015, wording as read on 15 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18e015/
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 Syntec notices we hold
- 19E065: S3B Base and S3C Base Convertible school bus seats
- 18E060: S3B 45" Restraint School Bus Seats
- 18E023: S3B Restraint Wall Mounted Seats
- 15E089: S3B Track Mounted Seats in 30", 36", 39" and 45" widths, manufactured August 24, 2014, to October 23, 2015
All 5 Syntec 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 18E015 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
ff1f1aa2 - Consequence
5673f003 - 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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