Spartan Gladiator, Spartan Metrostar, model years 2005 to 2020. Filed by Marion Body Works Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 19 November 2019. 94 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Marion Body Works Inc. (Marion Body Works) is recalling certain 2005-2020 Emergency Response Gladiator and Metrostar vehicles equipped with pneumatically-controlled automatic tire chain systems. The air pressure control lines may not be pressure-protected.
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.
Marion Body Works's own number for this recall: 19V-674. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 19V828 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 19V828 cover?
- Spartan Gladiator, Spartan Metrostar, model years 2005-2020.
- What is wrong with them?
- Marion Body Works Inc. (Marion Body Works) is recalling certain 2005-2020 Emergency Response Gladiator and Metrostar vehicles equipped with pneumatically-controlled automatic tire chain systems. The air pressure control lines may not be pressure-protected.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Without the control line being pressure-protected, in the event the control line is severed, air may suddenly be lost from the service reservoir system, causing the brakes to apply unexpectedly, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Marion Body Works will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the routing of the control lines, rerouting them into the auxiliary air reservoir as necessary, free of charge. The recall began November 22, 2019.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Marion Body Works calls this recall 19V-674, 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: “Without the control line being pressure-protected, in the event the control line is severed, air may suddenly be lost from the service reservoir system, causing the brakes to apply unexpectedly, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 19V828 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Marion Body Works Inc. |
| System at fault | Service Brakes, Air:Supply:Reservoir/Tank |
| Reported to NHTSA | 19 November 2019 |
| Model years | 2005-2020 |
| Vehicles named | SPARTAN GLADIATOR, SPARTAN METROSTAR |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Without the control line being pressure-protected, in the event the control line is severed, air may suddenly be lost from the service reservoir system, causing the brakes to apply unexpectedly, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Marion Body Works will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the routing of the control lines, rerouting them into the auxiliary air reservoir as necessary, free of charge. The recall began November 22, 2019. Owners may contact Marion Body Works customer service at 1-715-754-5261 or Spartan customer service at 1-800-543-5008.
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
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 19V828, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/19v828/
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 Marion Body Works notices we hold
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- 26E034: Waltco MDV series liftgates installed on Morgan aluminum dry vans
- 25V758: 2024-2025 Spartan Fire FC-94, Gladiator, and Metrostar
- 25V009: 2024 Spartan Fire Metro Star
- 24V007: 2024 Spartan Fire MetroStar
- 23V366: 2022 Gladiator and 2023 MetroStar emergency
- 22V172: one 2018 International SR525 emergency vehicle equipped with feature codes 12VXT or 12VXU
- 22V019: 2021-2022 Spartan Gladiator, MetroStar, and MetroStar-RT
All 15 Marion Body Works 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 19V828 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
d525029b - Consequence
d0e22fb6 - 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 19V828 · how the whole register is watched
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