Vactor 2100i, model years 2017 to 2020. Filed by Vactor Manufacturing and reported to NHTSA on 29 January 2020. 777 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Vactor Manufacturing (Vactor) is recalling certain 2017-2020 Vactor 2100i vehicles manufactured with RECIRC or flusher as original equipment or retrofitted. While in Recirculation (RECIRC) or Flusher mode and then switched to Jetting mode, the safety interlocks may fail resulting in unintentional vehicle movement.
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.
Vactor's own number for this recall: SB-0304. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 20V050 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 20V050 cover?
- Vactor 2100I, model years 2017-2020.
- What is wrong with them?
- Vactor Manufacturing (Vactor) is recalling certain 2017-2020 Vactor 2100i vehicles manufactured with RECIRC or flusher as original equipment or retrofitted.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Unintentional vehicle movement increases the risk of crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Vactor will notify owners, and dealers will provide software updates, free of charge. The recall began February 17, 2020. Owners may contact Vactor customer service at 1-877-342-5374. Vactor's number for this recall is SB-0304.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Vactor calls this recall SB-0304, 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: “Unintentional vehicle movement increases the risk of crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 20V050 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Vactor Manufacturing |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Software |
| Reported to NHTSA | 29 January 2020 |
| Model years | 2017-2020 |
| Vehicles named | VACTOR 2100I |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Unintentional vehicle movement increases the risk of crash.
The remedy
Vactor will notify owners, and dealers will provide software updates, free of charge. The recall began February 17, 2020. Owners may contact Vactor customer service at 1-877-342-5374. Vactor's number for this recall is SB-0304.
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.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 20V050, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/20v050/
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 Vactor notices we hold
- 18V133: 2011-2017 HXX and 2100 Plus vacuum excavator trucks
- 17V367: 2015-2017 Vactor Jetter
- 15V379: model year 2014-2015 Vactor HXX PD, HXX Fan, HXX Prodigy, and 2100 Plus, and Guzzler Guzzcavator trucks manufactured January 10, 2014, to June 2, 2015
- 14V159: model year 2012-2013 HXX-Fan, 2010-2014 HXX-Prodigy, and 2012-2014 HXX-PD and Guzzler Guzzcavator vacuum excavation trucks
- 13V119: model year 2012-2013 HXX and Guzzler vacuum trucks equipped with an Alkota water heater
- 11V477: MODEL YEAR 2010-2011 JETTER-F AND JETTER-V SEWER CLEANERS MANUFACTURED FROM FEBRUARY 2010, THROUGH APRIL 2011
- 10V146: MODEL YEAR 1992 THROUGH 2010 MODEL 2103 SEWER CLEANERS MANUFACTURED BETWEEN DECEMBER 1992 AND MARCH 2010
All 8 Vactor 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 20V050 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
83128812 - Consequence
43332bb0 - 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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