Genie Tz-34, Genie Tz-50, model year 2019. Filed by Genie Industries, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 28 March 2019. 40 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Genie Industries, Inc. (Genie) is recalling certain 2019 TZ-34 and TZ-50 trailer-mounted aerial devices. The battery cable ends at the quick disconnect may have been improperly crimped, resulting in possible excessive heat build-up of the conductor.
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.
Genie's own number for this recall: 190009. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 19V253 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 19V253 cover?
- Genie Tz-34, Genie Tz-50, model year 2019.
- What is wrong with them?
- Genie Industries, Inc. (Genie) is recalling certain 2019 TZ-34 and TZ-50 trailer-mounted aerial devices. The battery cable ends at the quick disconnect may have been improperly crimped, resulting in possible excessive heat build-up of the conductor.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The excessive heat build-up can result in a fire, increasing the risk of injury at the work area.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Genie will notify owners and provide a replacement quick disconnect battery cable. The recall began May 23, 2019. Owners may contact Genie customer service at 1-800-536-1800. Genie's number for this recall is 190009.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Genie calls this recall 190009, 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: “The excessive heat build-up can result in a fire, increasing the risk of injury at the work area.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 19V253 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Genie Industries, Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System:12v/24v/48v Battery:Cables |
| Reported to NHTSA | 28 March 2019 |
| Model years | 2019-2019 |
| Vehicles named | GENIE TZ-34, GENIE TZ-50 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
The excessive heat build-up can result in a fire, increasing the risk of injury at the work area.
The remedy
Genie will notify owners and provide a replacement quick disconnect battery cable. The recall began May 23, 2019. Owners may contact Genie customer service at 1-800-536-1800. Genie's number for this recall is 190009.
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 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 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 19V253, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/19v253/
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.
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Other Genie notices we hold
- 20V637: 2020 TZ-34 and TZ-50 trailer mounted boom lifts
- 20V552: 2020 TZ-50 trailers
- 16V067: model year 2016 TZ 34/20 trailer-mounted boom lifts manufactured January 5, 2016, to January 20, 2016
- 15V326: model year 2015 TZ-34/20 trailers manufactured January 26, 2015, to February 24, 2015
- 13V420: model year 2003-2012 TZ-34 aerial work platform trailers manufactured October 1, 2002, through July 12, 2012
- 12V022: TZ-34 AND TZ-50 TRAILER MOUNTED AERIAL WORK PLATFORM BOOMS, MANUFACTURED FROM JANUARY 1, 2010, THROUGH MAY 1, 2011, BECAUSE THE MOTOR CONTROLLER CAN FAIL
- 10V619: MODEL YEAR 2011 TZ-50 TRAILERS
- 10V286: MODEL YEAR 2009 TZ-34 AND TZ-50
All 9 Genie 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 19V253 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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dca35ced - 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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