Micro Bird G5, Micro Bird Mb Ii, Micro Bird T-Series, model years 2011 to 2018. Filed by Corp. Micro Bird Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 18 July 2018. 1,357 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Corp. Micro Bird Inc. (Micro Bird) is recalling certain 2011-2018 Micro Bird G5, MB-II, and T-series school buses, equipped with CE White/HSM SB11-30" series, standard, unbelted, school bus seats, or SB11-30" series school bus seats with lap belts only. The foam in the knee impact area of the lower seat back may not …
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.
The maker's own number for this recall: 18-074-SUS. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 18V474 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 18V474 cover?
- Micro Bird G5, Micro Bird MB Ii, Micro Bird T-Series, model years 2011-2018.
- What is wrong with them?
- Corp. Micro Bird Inc. (Micro Bird) is recalling certain 2011-2018 Micro Bird G5, MB-II, and T-series school buses, equipped with CE White/HSM SB11-30" series, standard, unbelted, school bus seats, or SB11-30" series school bus seats with lap belts only.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the seat foam does not absorb enough impact energy, it can increase the risk of injury in the event of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Micro Bird will notify owners and dealers will insert an additional piece of expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam into the seatback, free of charge. Micro Bird issued interim notifications to owners on September 12, 2018. The recall began December 7, 2018.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. The maker calls this recall 18-074-SUS, 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 foam does not absorb enough impact energy, it can increase the risk of injury in the event of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 18V474 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Corp. Micro Bird Inc. |
| System at fault | Seats |
| Reported to NHTSA | 18 July 2018 |
| Model years | 2011-2018 |
| Vehicles named | MICRO BIRD G5, MICRO BIRD MB II, MICRO BIRD T-SERIES |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the seat foam does not absorb enough impact energy, it can increase the risk of injury in the event of a crash.
The remedy
Micro Bird will notify owners and dealers will insert an additional piece of expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam into the seatback, free of charge. Micro Bird issued interim notifications to owners on September 12, 2018. The recall began December 7, 2018. Owners may contact Micro Bird customer service at 1-819-477-2012. Micro Bird's number for this recall is 18-074-SUS.
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 18V474, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18v474/
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.
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 18V474 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
3c433198 - Consequence
5c8baa75 - 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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