Maxon Liftgate, model year 9999. Filed by Maxon Lift Corp. and reported to NHTSA on 8 June 2020. 2,182 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Maxon Lift Corp. (Maxon) is recalling certain GPTLR and GPTWR Lift Gates that contain License Plate Kit part number 298872-01 that includes Light part number 908120-01. If installed, the license plate light may aim rearward and not towards the license plate. As such, this equipment fails to comply with Federal Motor …
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.
Maxon's own number for this recall: 211385-01. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 20E034 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 20E034 cover?
- Maxon Liftgate.
- What is wrong with them?
- Maxon Lift Corp. (Maxon) is recalling certain GPTLR and GPTWR Lift Gates that contain License Plate Kit part number 298872-01 that includes Light part number 908120-01. If installed, the license plate light may aim rearward and not towards the license plate.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A license plate light aimed toward other drivers may increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Maxon will notify the vehicle manufacturers who may, or may not, have used the Maxon provided License Plate Kit with Light and will provide a corrective kit as necessary, free of charge. Maxon customer service may be contacted at 1-562-404-6727. Maxon's number for this recall is 211385-01.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Maxon calls this recall 211385-01, 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: “A license plate light aimed toward other drivers may increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 20E034 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Maxon Lift Corp. |
| System at fault | Structure:Body:Hatchback/Liftgate |
| Reported to NHTSA | 8 June 2020 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | MAXON LIFTGATE |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A license plate light aimed toward other drivers may increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Maxon will notify the vehicle manufacturers who may, or may not, have used the Maxon provided License Plate Kit with Light and will provide a corrective kit as necessary, free of charge. Maxon customer service may be contacted at 1-562-404-6727. Maxon's number for this recall is 211385-01.
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.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 20E034, wording as read on 15 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/20e034/
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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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 20E034 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
9d1f7cf9 - Consequence
017598cb - 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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