Elkhart Ecii, Glaval Bus Apollo, Glaval Bus Commute, Glaval Bus Concorde, Glaval Bus Concorde Ii, Glaval Bus Entourage, model years 2012 to 2018. Filed by Forest River, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 18 September 2018. 1,525 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2012-2016 Elkhart Coach ECII, Glaval Apollo and Sport buses, 2017-2018 Glaval Commute buses, 2012-2018 Glaval Entourage, Titan and Universal, StarCraft Bus Allstar and Starlite buses, 2013-2018 Glaval Legacy, Primetime and Titan II buses, 2015-2016 Allstar XL MVP …
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: 51-0852. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 18V640 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 18V640 cover?
- Elkhart Ecii, Glaval Bus Apollo, Glaval Bus Commute, Glaval Bus Concorde, Glaval Bus Concorde Ii, Glaval Bus Entourage, Glaval Bus Legacy, Glaval Bus Primetime, model years 2012-2018.
- What is wrong with them?
- Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2012-2016 Elkhart Coach ECII, Glaval Apollo and Sport buses, 2017-2018 Glaval Commute buses, 2012-2018 Glaval Entourage, Titan and Universal, StarCraft Bus Allstar and Starlite buses, 2013-2018 Glaval Legacy, Primetime and Titan II buses,...
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the wheelchair lift platform stops above the vehicle floor, the wheelchair user can tip inwards toward the vehicle when exiting the lift, increasing their risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Forest River will notify owners, and Ricon dealers will replace the wheelchair lift positioning input cam, free of charge. The recall began October 10, 2018. Owners may contact Ricon customer service at 1-800-322-2884. Forest River's number for this recall is 51-0852.
- 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 51-0852, 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 wheelchair lift platform stops above the vehicle floor, the wheelchair user can tip inwards toward the vehicle when exiting the lift, increasing their risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 18V640 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Forest River, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment Adaptive/Mobility |
| Reported to NHTSA | 18 September 2018 |
| Model years | 2012-2018 |
| Vehicles named | ELKHART ECII, GLAVAL BUS APOLLO, GLAVAL BUS COMMUTE, GLAVAL BUS CONCORDE, GLAVAL BUS CONCORDE II, GLAVAL BUS ENTOURAGE, GLAVAL BUS LEGACY, GLAVAL BUS PRIMETIME, GLAVAL BUS SPORT, GLAVAL BUS TITAN, GLAVAL BUS TITAN II, GLAVAL BUS UNIVERSAL, STARCRAFT BUS ALLSTAR, STARCRAFT BUS ALLSTAR XL MVP |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the wheelchair lift platform stops above the vehicle floor, the wheelchair user can tip inwards toward the vehicle when exiting the lift, increasing their risk of injury.
The remedy
Forest River will notify owners, and Ricon dealers will replace the wheelchair lift positioning input cam, free of charge. The recall began October 10, 2018. Owners may contact Ricon customer service at 1-800-322-2884. Forest River's number for this recall is 51-0852.
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 289 notices in the record whose component field names equipment adaptive/mobility. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 36 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Elkhart Ecii recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Glaval Bus Apollo recalls: 15 US campaigns
- Glaval Bus Commute recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Glaval Bus Concorde Ii recalls: 20 US campaigns
- Glaval Bus Entourage recalls: 23 US campaigns
- Glaval Bus Legacy recalls: 17 US campaigns
- Glaval Bus Primetime recalls: 11 US campaigns
- Glaval Bus Sport recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Glaval Bus Titan recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Glaval Bus Titan Ii recalls: 11 US campaigns
- Glaval Bus Universal recalls: 16 US campaigns
- Starcraft Bus Allstar recalls: 13 US campaigns
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 18V640, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18v640/
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 18V640 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
5dd704ba - Consequence
177ce4c6 - 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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