Hino Ne8a, Hino Ne8c, Hino Ne8g, Hino Ne8j, Hino Nj8a, Hino Nj8c, model years 2020 to 2021. Filed by Hino Motors Sales U.S.A., Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 30 April 2020. 12,470 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Hino Motors Sales U.S.A., Inc. (Hino) is recalling certain 2020-2021 NV8J, NJ8J, NE8J, NJ8A, NV8A, NE8A, NE8G, NJ8C, NE8C, and NV8G trucks. The ground cable that connects the negative battery terminal to the frame may be too short and may break as a result.
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.
Hino's own number for this recall: AAHT0. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 20V244 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 20V244 cover?
- Hino Ne8A, Hino Ne8C, Hino Ne8G, Hino Ne8J, Hino Nj8A, Hino Nj8C, Hino Nj8J, Hino Nv8A, model years 2020-2021.
- What is wrong with them?
- Hino Motors Sales U.S.A., Inc. (Hino) is recalling certain 2020-2021 NV8J, NJ8J, NE8J, NJ8A, NV8A, NE8A, NE8G, NJ8C, NE8C, and NV8G trucks. The ground cable that connects the negative battery terminal to the frame may be too short and may break as a result.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the ground cable breaks, the engine cannot be re-started to move the vehicle to a safe area, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Hino will notify owners, and dealers will install an extension bracket to the negative battery terminal and inspect the ground cable terminal for damage, replacing the cable if damage is found, free of charge. Owners will be notified of the safety risk with an interim letter Mid-June 2020.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Hino calls this recall AAHT0, 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: “If the ground cable breaks, the engine cannot be re-started to move the vehicle to a safe area, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 20V244 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Hino Motors Sales U.S.A., Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System:12v/24v/48v Battery:Cables |
| Reported to NHTSA | 30 April 2020 |
| Model years | 2020-2021 |
| Vehicles named | HINO NE8A, HINO NE8C, HINO NE8G, HINO NE8J, HINO NJ8A, HINO NJ8C, HINO NJ8J, HINO NV8A, HINO NV8G, HINO NV8J |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the ground cable breaks, the engine cannot be re-started to move the vehicle to a safe area, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Hino will notify owners, and dealers will install an extension bracket to the negative battery terminal and inspect the ground cable terminal for damage, replacing the cable if damage is found, free of charge. Owners will be notified of the safety risk with an interim letter Mid-June 2020. The recall began June 26, 2020. Owners may contact Hino customer service at 1-248-699-9390. Hino's number for this recall is AAHT0.
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
- Hino Ne8j recalls: 13 US campaigns
- Hino Nj8a recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Hino Nj8j recalls: 13 US campaigns
- Hino Nv8j recalls: 14 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 20V244, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/20v244/
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 Hino notices we hold
- 26V175: 2026 NV7G, NV7D, NJ7E, NJ7D, NH7K, NE7D, and NH7G
- 25V057: 2022-2025 NH7A, NJ7A, NJ7B, NJ7C, NV7A, NV7B, and NV7C trucks
- 24V075: 2022-2024 Hino NE7A, NE7B, NH7A, NH9A, NH9B, NH9C, NJ7A, NJ7B, NJ7C, NV7A, NV7B, NV7C, NM9A, NM9B, TH9K, and TM9K
- 23V756: 2022-2023 Hino NE7A, NE7B, NJ7A, NJ7B, NV7A, and NV7B
- 23V560: 2020-2024 NE7A, NE7B, NE8A, NH9A, NJ7A, NJ7B, NJ8A, NJ8J, NV7A, NV7B, and NV8A
- 23V541: 2022-2023 NE7A, NJ7A, NJ7B and NV7A
- 23V457: 2023 NE7A, NJ7A, and NV7A
- 23V456: 2022-2023 NE7A, NE7B, NJ7A, NJ7B, NV7A, and NV7B
All 36 Hino 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 20V244 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
2284cd68 - Consequence
295a7fb2 - 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 20V244 · how the whole register is watched
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