Karma Revero, model year 2018. Filed by Karma Automotive LLC and reported to NHTSA on 23 July 2018. 50 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Karma Automotive LLC (Karma) is recalling certain 2018 Karma Revero vehicles. The driver's side exterior rearview mirrors may be made with convex, not flat glass. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 111, "Rearview Mirrors."
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.
Karma's own number for this recall: RC-18-78-01. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 18V488 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 18V488 cover?
- Karma Revero, model year 2018.
- What is wrong with them?
- Karma Automotive LLC (Karma) is recalling certain 2018 Karma Revero vehicles. The driver's side exterior rearview mirrors may be made with convex, not flat glass.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- When using the incorrect rearview mirrors, the driver may fail to realize how close a vehicle or object actually is, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Karma has notified owners, and dealers will inspect the driver side exterior rearview mirror, replacing it as necessary, free of charge. The recall began August 1, 2018. Owners may contact Karma customer service at 1-855-288-6109. Karma's number for this recall is RC-18-78-01.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Karma calls this recall RC-18-78-01, 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: “When using the incorrect rearview mirrors, the driver may fail to realize how close a vehicle or object actually is, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 18V488 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Karma Automotive LLC |
| System at fault | Visibility:Rearview Mirrors/Devices:Exterior |
| Reported to NHTSA | 23 July 2018 |
| Model years | 2018-2018 |
| Vehicles named | KARMA REVERO |
What the notice says today
The consequence
When using the incorrect rearview mirrors, the driver may fail to realize how close a vehicle or object actually is, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Karma has notified owners, and dealers will inspect the driver side exterior rearview mirror, replacing it as necessary, free of charge. The recall began August 1, 2018. Owners may contact Karma customer service at 1-855-288-6109. Karma's number for this recall is RC-18-78-01.
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 463 notices in the record whose component field names visibility. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 34 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 18V488, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18v488/
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 Karma notices we hold
- 24V379: 2020-2022 Revero GS-6, Revero GS-6s, Revero GS-6L, Revero GTS, and Revero GT
- 19V408: 2018 Karma Revero
- 19V296: 2018 Karma Revero
- 19V181: 2012 Fisker Karma
- 18V114: 2018 Revero
- 17V004: 2012 Fisker Karma
All 7 Karma 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 18V488 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
cce262d2 - Consequence
a8c1dbe6 - 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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