Altec Dc1317 Chipper, Altec Drm12 Wood Chipper, model years 2017 to 2019. Filed by Altec Industries, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 3 March 2021. 355 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Altec Industries, Inc. (Altec) is recalling certain 2017-2019 DC1317 and DRM12 Chippers equipped with a gasoline engine. The flexible section of the exhaust pipe may separate, creating an exhaust gas leak.
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.
Altec's own number for this recall: CSN 802. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 21V133 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 21V133 cover?
- Altec Dc1317 Chipper, Altec DRM12 Wood Chipper, model years 2017-2019.
- What is wrong with them?
- Altec Industries, Inc. (Altec) is recalling certain 2017-2019 DC1317 and DRM12 Chippers equipped with a gasoline engine. The flexible section of the exhaust pipe may separate, creating an exhaust gas leak.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An exhaust gas leak in the engine compartment increases the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Altec will notify owners, and owners will receive instructions to replace the flex pipe, free of charge. The recall began April 28, 2021. Owners may contact Altec customer service at 1-877-462-5832. Altec's number for this recall is CSN 802.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Altec calls this recall CSN 802, 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: “An exhaust gas leak in the engine compartment increases the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 21V133 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Altec Industries, Inc. |
| System at fault | Engine And Engine Cooling:Exhaust System |
| Reported to NHTSA | 3 March 2021 |
| Model years | 2017-2019 |
| Vehicles named | ALTEC DC1317 CHIPPER, ALTEC DRM12 WOOD CHIPPER |
What the notice says today
The consequence
An exhaust gas leak in the engine compartment increases the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Altec will notify owners, and owners will receive instructions to replace the flex pipe, free of charge. The recall began April 28, 2021. Owners may contact Altec customer service at 1-877-462-5832. Altec's number for this recall is CSN 802.
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 588 notices in the record whose component field names engine and engine cooling. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 47 days.
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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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 21V133 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
be06097b - Consequence
cf4372a5 - 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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