Toolworks Fuse Kit Tw1489, model year 9999. Filed by Advance Stores Company, Incorporated and reported to NHTSA on 27 April 2018. 6,867 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Advance Stores Company, Incorporated (Advance Stores) is recalling certain ToolWorks TW1489 Fuse Kits sold through Advance Auto Parts and Carquest stores. The fuses in the kits may fail to protect the circuit from excessive current.
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 18E027 cover?
- Toolworks Fuse Kit Tw1489.
- What is wrong with them?
- Advance Stores Company, Incorporated (Advance Stores) is recalling certain ToolWorks TW1489 Fuse Kits sold through Advance Auto Parts and Carquest stores. The fuses in the kits may fail to protect the circuit from excessive current.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the circuit is overloaded and the fuse fails to perform as intended, the vehicle wiring and electrical components could be damaged, increasing the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Advance Stores will notify the known purchasers, and replace the fuse kits with those of another brand, and also provide a full refund, free of charge. Owners may contact Advance Stores customer service at 1-877-238-2623, select option 3.
- 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: “If the circuit is overloaded and the fuse fails to perform as intended, the vehicle wiring and electrical components could be damaged, increasing the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 18E027 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Advance Stores Company, Incorporated |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Wiring:Fuses And Circuit Breakers |
| Reported to NHTSA | 27 April 2018 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | TOOLWORKS FUSE KIT TW1489 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the circuit is overloaded and the fuse fails to perform as intended, the vehicle wiring and electrical components could be damaged, increasing the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Advance Stores will notify the known purchasers, and replace the fuse kits with those of another brand, and also provide a full refund, free of charge. Owners may contact Advance Stores customer service at 1-877-238-2623, select option 3.
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 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 18E027, wording as read on 15 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18e027/
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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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 18E027 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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