Coach And Equipment Metro Lite, Coach And Equipment Phoenix, model years 2015 to 2018. Filed by Coach and Equipment Mfg Corp. and reported to NHTSA on 12 November 2018. 864 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Coach and Equipment Mfg Corp. (Coach and Equipment) is recalling certain 2015-2018 Coach and Equipment Phoenix and Metro lite transit buses, equipped with Freedman GO-ES Foldaway Seats, part numbers 43705, 45467, 48923, and 75719. When the back seat cushion is rotated from the stowed position to the upright position, …
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Coach And Equipment's own number for this recall: 18E-076. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 18V796 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 18V796 cover?
- Coach And Equipment Metro Lite, Coach And Equipment Phoenix, model years 2015-2018.
- What is wrong with them?
- Coach and Equipment Mfg Corp. (Coach and Equipment) is recalling certain 2015-2018 Coach and Equipment Phoenix and Metro lite transit buses, equipped with Freedman GO-ES Foldaway Seats, part numbers 43705, 45467, 48923, and 75719.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- In the event of a crash, if the seat back moves, the seat occupant has an increased risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Coach and Equipment has notified owners, and Freedman Seating will repair the foldaway seat, free of charge. The recall began November 26, 2018. Owners may contact Coach and Equipment customer service at 1-800-724-8464. Freedman's number for this recall is 18E-076.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Coach and Equipment calls this recall 18E-076, 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: “In the event of a crash, if the seat back moves, the seat occupant has an increased risk of injury.”
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in the notice
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| Campaign | 18V796 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Coach and Equipment MFG Corp. |
| System at fault | Seats |
| Reported to NHTSA | 12 November 2018 |
| Model years | 2015-2018 |
| Vehicles named | COACH AND EQUIPMENT METRO LITE, COACH AND EQUIPMENT PHOENIX |
What the notice says today
The consequence
In the event of a crash, if the seat back moves, the seat occupant has an increased risk of injury.
The remedy
Coach and Equipment has notified owners, and Freedman Seating will repair the foldaway seat, free of charge. The recall began November 26, 2018. Owners may contact Coach and Equipment customer service at 1-800-724-8464. Freedman's number for this recall is 18E-076.
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.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Coach And Equipment Metro Lite recalls: 6 US campaigns
- Coach And Equipment Phoenix recalls: 13 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 18V796, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18v796/
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 Coach And Equipment notices we hold
- 26V472: 2024-2025 Phoenix, and 2025-2026 Metrolite transit buses, equipped with certain S-Series wheelchair platform lifts
- 26V333: 2025-2026 Phoenix and 2026 Metrolite buses, equipped with certain QRT-360 wheelchair retractors
- 25V895: 2024-2025 Phoenix transit buses equipped with a propane conversion kit with an aftermarket compressor
- 25V772: 2025 Phoenix transit buses equipped with QRT-Deluxe and QRT-Max wheelchair restraints
- 24V317: 2024 Phoenix shuttle buses, equipped with certain GO-ES Space Saver Foldaway Seats
- 22V851: 2016-2023 Phoenix transit buses equipped with Roush fuel return lines included in GEN 4 and GEN 5 LPG Conversion Systems that were installed on
- 13V460: model year 2009-2010 MetroLite and Phoenix transit buses manufactured August 2009 through May 2010 and equipped with an optional power door
- 12V281: MODEL YEAR 2006-2010 PHOENIX, METRO-LITE AND PEGASUS TRANSIT BUSES EQUIPPED WITH BRAUN CENTURY-2 AND/OR VISTA-2 WHEELCHAIR LIFTS
All 11 Coach And Equipment 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 18V796 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
e319f6b2 - Consequence
6409ea27 - 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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