Tropos Able, model years 2019 to 2020. Filed by Tropos Technologies, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 23 July 2020. 66 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Tropos Technologies, Inc. (Tropos) is recalling certain 2019-2020 Able low-speed vehicles. The back-up camera may not provide a sufficient view angle. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 111, "Rear Visibility."
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.
Tropos's own number for this recall: TRO-20-01. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 20V425 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 20V425 cover?
- Tropos Able, model years 2019-2020.
- What is wrong with them?
- Tropos Technologies, Inc. (Tropos) is recalling certain 2019-2020 Able low-speed vehicles. The back-up camera may not provide a sufficient view angle. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 111, "Rear Visibility."
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The reduced view angle of the back-up camera display increases the risk of a crash or back-over incident.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Tropos will notify owners, and dealers will replace the camera, free of any charge. The recall began July 24, 2020. Owners may contact Tropos customer service at 1-408-571-6104. Tropos' number for this recall is TRO-20-01.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Tropos calls this recall TRO-20-01, 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: “The reduced view angle of the back-up camera display increases the risk of a crash or back-over incident.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 20V425 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Tropos Technologies, Inc. |
| System at fault | Back Over Prevention:Sensing System:Camera |
| Reported to NHTSA | 23 July 2020 |
| Model years | 2019-2020 |
| Vehicles named | TROPOS ABLE |
What the notice says today
The consequence
The reduced view angle of the back-up camera display increases the risk of a crash or back-over incident.
The remedy
Tropos will notify owners, and dealers will replace the camera, free of any charge. The recall began July 24, 2020. Owners may contact Tropos customer service at 1-408-571-6104. Tropos' number for this recall is TRO-20-01.
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 246 notices in the record whose component field names back over prevention. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 48 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 20V425, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/20v425/
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 Tropos notices 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 20V425 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
1cc9fe43 - Consequence
a49157de - Remedy
ad6920c0
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 20V425 · how the whole register is watched
Put this notice on your site
A small badge that links here and names the register's reference. It costs one line of HTML and needs no key.
The badge is free to use. It links to this page and nowhere else, and it never shows advertising.
Owners of these cars
No register publishes what happens after the letter. Owners do: tell us, in two taps.
Anonymous: no account, no cookie, nothing you type is stored beyond these choices. Figures appear once 3 owners have answered, and are published with the record under CC BY 4.0.