Spartan K2, Spartan K3, model years 2017 to 2022. Filed by Shyft Group and reported to NHTSA on 5 May 2021. 2,783 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Shyft Group is recalling certain 2017-2022 Spartan RV Chassis K2 and K3 vehicles. The sealing washer may not seat correctly in the pilot bore holes, allowing the high pressure fuel rail assembly to 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.
Spartan's own number for this recall: 21-11. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 21V319 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 21V319 cover?
- Spartan K2, Spartan K3, model years 2017-2022.
- What is wrong with them?
- Shyft Group is recalling certain 2017-2022 Spartan RV Chassis K2 and K3 vehicles. The sealing washer may not seat correctly in the pilot bore holes, allowing the high pressure fuel rail assembly to leak.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source increases the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect the rail threads and fuel lines, and replace the rail as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on August 25, 2021. Owners may contact Shyft Group customer service at 1-800-543-4277. Shyft Group's number for this recall is 21-11.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Spartan calls this recall 21-11, 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 fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source increases the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 21V319 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Shyft Group |
| System at fault | Fuel System, Gasoline:Fuel Injection System:Fuel Rail |
| Reported to NHTSA | 5 May 2021 |
| Model years | 2017-2022 |
| Vehicles named | SPARTAN K2, SPARTAN K3 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source increases the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect the rail threads and fuel lines, and replace the rail as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on August 25, 2021. Owners may contact Shyft Group customer service at 1-800-543-4277. Shyft Group's number for this recall is 21-11.
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 470 notices in the record whose component field names fuel system, gasoline. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 46 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 21V319, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/21v319/
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 Spartan notices we hold
- 26V440: 2016, 2019, and 2021 Utilimaster Velocity
- 26V292: 2025 Spartan RV Chassis K1, 2024-2026 RV Chassis K2, RV Chassis K3, and 2025-2027 RV Chassis K4
- 26V284: 2025 Utilimaster Velocity
- 26V265: 2022 Utilimaster Aeromaster
- 26V088: 2024-2025 Blue Arc BA4L-800
- 25V452: 2015-2025 Utilimaster Truck Body
- 25V447: 2024-2025 Blue ARC BA4L-800
- 25V405: 2024-2025 Utilimaster Aeromaster
All 48 Spartan 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 21V319 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
b1bb4a32 - Consequence
2c1e78b5 - 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 21V319 · how the whole register is watched
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