Syntec S3b Restraint Seats, model year 9999. Filed by SynTec Seating Solutions, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 24 July 2018. 235 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says SynTec Seating Solutions, LLC (SynTec) is recalling certain S3B 45" Restraint School Bus Seats. The seat's foot may pull through the bolted joint at the bus floor. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 210, "Seat Belt Assembly Anchorages."
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: RES101. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 18E060 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 18E060 cover?
- Syntec S3B Restraint Seats.
- What is wrong with them?
- SynTec Seating Solutions, LLC (SynTec) is recalling certain S3B 45" Restraint School Bus Seats. The seat's foot may pull through the bolted joint at the bus floor.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the seat mounting foot detaches from the floor, it can increase the risk of injury in the event of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. SynTec has notified the bus manufacturer that purchased the seats, and dealers for those manufacturers will install a washer between the rear mounting foot and the bus floor, free of charge. The recall began on August 7, 2018. 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 RES101, 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 seat mounting foot detaches from the floor, it can increase the risk of injury in the event of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 18E060 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | SynTec Seating Solutions, LLC |
| System at fault | Seats |
| Reported to NHTSA | 24 July 2018 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | SYNTEC S3B RESTRAINT SEATS |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the seat mounting foot detaches from the floor, it can increase the risk of injury in the event of a crash.
The remedy
SynTec has notified the bus manufacturer that purchased the seats, and dealers for those manufacturers will install a washer between the rear mounting foot and the bus floor, free of charge. The recall began on August 7, 2018. Owners may contact SynTec customer service at 1-336-862-7509. SynTec's number for this recall is RES101.
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 18E060, wording as read on 15 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18e060/
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
- 18E023: S3B Restraint Wall Mounted Seats
- 18E015: S3B Non-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 18E060 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
abd285a8 - Consequence
e02ef068 - 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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