Meritor Op Staft Sub Assembly, model year 9999. Filed by Meritor, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 25 February 2019. 198 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Meritor, Inc. (Meritor) is recalling certain Op Shaft subassemblies, part number 68324870, used in Meritor EX225 disc brake calipers. The drive pins may have been cracked during assembly possibly resulting in the pins fully fracturing.
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.
Meritor's own number for this recall: C19AA. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 19E015 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 19E015 cover?
- Meritor Op Staft Sub Assembly.
- What is wrong with them?
- Meritor, Inc. (Meritor) is recalling certain Op Shaft subassemblies, part number 68324870, used in Meritor EX225 disc brake calipers. The drive pins may have been cracked during assembly possibly resulting in the pins fully fracturing.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the drive pin becomes fully fractured, the vehicle may pull to one side while braking, causing a loss of vehicle control and increasing the risk of crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Meritor has notified the purchasers of the affected Meritor EX225 disc brake calipers, and those dealers will inspect and replace the brake calipers, as necessary, free of charge. The recall began March 18, 2019. Owners may contact Meritor customer service at 1-866-668-7221.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Meritor calls this recall C19AA, 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 drive pin becomes fully fractured, the vehicle may pull to one side while braking, causing a loss of vehicle control and increasing the risk of crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 19E015 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Meritor, Inc. |
| System at fault | Service Brakes, Air:Disc:Caliper |
| Reported to NHTSA | 25 February 2019 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | MERITOR OP STAFT SUB ASSEMBLY |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the drive pin becomes fully fractured, the vehicle may pull to one side while braking, causing a loss of vehicle control and increasing the risk of crash.
The remedy
Meritor has notified the purchasers of the affected Meritor EX225 disc brake calipers, and those dealers will inspect and replace the brake calipers, as necessary, free of charge. The recall began March 18, 2019. Owners may contact Meritor customer service at 1-866-668-7221. Meritor's number for this recall is C19AA.
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 353 notices in the record whose component field names service brakes, air. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 19E015, wording as read on 15 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/19e015/
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 19E015 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
ca2e2920 - Consequence
e56deb55 - 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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