Hometown Trolley Mainstreet, Hometown Trolley Streetcar, Hometown Trolley Villager, model years 2017 to 2018. Filed by Double K Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 11 January 2019. 5 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Double K Inc. (Double K) is recalling certain 2017-2018 Hometown Trolley Villager, Mainstreet, and Steetcar trackless trolley buses, built on a Daimler trucks North America (DTNA) Freightliner chassis. The brake caliper mounting bolts may have been insufficiently tightened.
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.
Double K's own number for this recall: FL794A-V. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 19V029 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 19V029 cover?
- Hometown Trolley Mainstreet, Hometown Trolley Streetcar, Hometown Trolley Villager, model years 2017-2018.
- What is wrong with them?
- Double K Inc. (Double K) is recalling certain 2017-2018 Hometown Trolley Villager, Mainstreet, and Steetcar trackless trolley buses, built on a Daimler trucks North America (DTNA) Freightliner chassis. The brake caliper mounting bolts may have been insufficiently tightened.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Loose brake caliper mounting bolts can reduce brake effectiveness, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Double K will notify owners, instructing them to contact a DTNA dealer to have the brake caliper mounting bolts checked and tightened, free of charge. The recall began February 11, 2019. Owners may contact Double K customer service at 1-715-478-5095 or DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Double K calls this recall FL794A-V, 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: “Loose brake caliper mounting bolts can reduce brake effectiveness, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 19V029 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Double K Inc. |
| System at fault | Service Brakes, Air:Disc:Caliper |
| Reported to NHTSA | 11 January 2019 |
| Model years | 2017-2018 |
| Vehicles named | HOMETOWN TROLLEY MAINSTREET, HOMETOWN TROLLEY STREETCAR, HOMETOWN TROLLEY VILLAGER |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Loose brake caliper mounting bolts can reduce brake effectiveness, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Double K will notify owners, instructing them to contact a DTNA dealer to have the brake caliper mounting bolts checked and tightened, free of charge. The recall began February 11, 2019. Owners may contact Double K customer service at 1-715-478-5095 or DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. Double K's number for this recall is FL794A-V.
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.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Hometown Trolley Mainstreet recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Hometown Trolley Streetcar recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Hometown Trolley Villager recalls: 6 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 19V029, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/19v029/
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 Double K notices we hold
- 14V766: Hometown Trolley Villager transit buses manufactured August 15, 2008, to May 24, 2014
- 14V209: model year 2009-2010 Hometown Trolley Villager and Mainstreet trolleys equipped with A&M Systems-brand electric door actuators
- 12V344: model year 2007-2009 Hometown Trolley Villager and model year 2009 Hometown Trolley Mainstreet
- 11V091: BUSES EQUIPPED WITH TRANS AIR TA 73 EVAPORATORS
All 5 Double K 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 19V029 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
7ba89f36 - Consequence
61c7a0d2 - 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 19V029 · how the whole register is watched
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