Gem E2, Gem E4, Gem E6, Gem Elxd, model years 2016 to 2017. Filed by Polaris Industries, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 19 July 2018. 2,110 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Polaris Industries, Inc. (Polaris) is recalling certain 2016-2017 GEM E2, E4, E6, and ELXD vehicles. The drive mode switch can send an incorrect signal, causing the vehicle to become inoperative or go in the opposite direction than intended.
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.
Polaris's own number for this recall: L-18-02. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 18V484 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 18V484 cover?
- Gem E2, Gem E4, Gem E6, Gem Elxd, model years 2016-2017.
- What is wrong with them?
- Polaris Industries, Inc. (Polaris) is recalling certain 2016-2017 GEM E2, E4, E6, and ELXD vehicles. The drive mode switch can send an incorrect signal, causing the vehicle to become inoperative or go in the opposite direction than intended.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the operator intends to go forward, but the vehicle reverses instead, there would be an increased risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Polaris will notify owners, and dealers will replace the drive mode system with one that has separate inputs for each position (forward, neutral and reverse), free of charge. The recall began November 28, 2018. Owners may contact Polaris customer service at 1-855-863-2284.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Polaris calls this recall L-18-02, 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 operator intends to go forward, but the vehicle reverses instead, there would be an increased risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 18V484 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Polaris Industries, Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System |
| Reported to NHTSA | 19 July 2018 |
| Model years | 2016-2017 |
| Vehicles named | GEM E2, GEM E4, GEM E6, GEM ELXD |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the operator intends to go forward, but the vehicle reverses instead, there would be an increased risk of a crash.
The remedy
Polaris will notify owners, and dealers will replace the drive mode system with one that has separate inputs for each position (forward, neutral and reverse), free of charge. The recall began November 28, 2018. Owners may contact Polaris customer service at 1-855-863-2284. Note: This recall supersedes recall 16V-884. Vehicles previously repaired under that campaign need the repairs covered by this campaign as well.
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.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Gem E2 recalls: 8 US campaigns
- Gem E4 recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Gem E6 recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Gem Elxd recalls: 9 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 18V484, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18v484/
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 Polaris notices we hold
- 23V466: 2020 Slingshot GT, 2021-2023 Slingshot S, Slingshot S Tech, 2020-2023 Slingshot R, Slingshot SL, and 2022-2023 Slingshot SLR
- 23V106: 2022-2023 Slingshot R, Slingshot S with Technology Package 1, Slingshot SL, Slingshot SLR, and Slingshot S motorcycles
- 21V629: 2020-2021 Slingshot
- 19V881: 2019 Slingshot, Slingshot SL, Slingshot SLR, and Slingshot GT motorcycles
- 19V750: 2015-2019 Slingshot motorcycles
- 19V185: 2018-2019 Slingshot motorcycles
- 18V809: 2015-2016 Polaris Slingshot, Slingshot SL and Slingshot SL LE motorcycles equipped with a backup camera
- 18V531: 2017-2019 Polaris Slingshot S, Slingshot SL, Slingshot GT LE, and Slingshot SLR motorcycles
All 27 Polaris 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 18V484 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
2fa0a876 - Consequence
08aa9c39 - 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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