Wabash National Van, model years 2014 to 2019. Filed by Wabash National Corporation and reported to NHTSA on 15 November 2018. 5,194 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Wabash National Corporation (Wabash) is recalling certain 2014-2019 Wabash National Van trailers equipped with limb deflectors. The limb deflectors installed on the upper rear corner of the trailers may detach while moving.
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.
Wabash's own number for this recall: LEG201803. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 18V808 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 18V808 cover?
- Wabash National Van, model years 2014-2019.
- What is wrong with them?
- Wabash National Corporation (Wabash) is recalling certain 2014-2019 Wabash National Van trailers equipped with limb deflectors. The limb deflectors installed on the upper rear corner of the trailers may detach while moving.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the limb deflectors detach, it can increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Wabash will notify owners, and dealers will remove the limb deflectors, free of charge. The recall began November 30, 2018. Owners may contact Wabash customer service at 1-765-771-5404. Wabash's number for this recall is LEG201803.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Wabash calls this recall LEG201803, 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 limb deflectors detach, it can increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 18V808 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Wabash National Corporation |
| System at fault | Structure:Body |
| Reported to NHTSA | 15 November 2018 |
| Model years | 2014-2019 |
| Vehicles named | WABASH NATIONAL VAN |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the limb deflectors detach, it can increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Wabash will notify owners, and dealers will remove the limb deflectors, free of charge. The recall began November 30, 2018. Owners may contact Wabash customer service at 1-765-771-5404. Wabash's number for this recall is LEG201803.
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 901 notices in the record whose component field names structure. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 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 18V808, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18v808/
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.
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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 18V808 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
54ae56a0 - Consequence
77ed13a7 - 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.
The wording we hold for 18V808 · how the whole register is watched
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