Spartan Fire Gladiator, Spartan Fire Metrostar, model years 2009 to 2021. Filed by Spartan Fire, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 10 May 2021. 2,130 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Spartan Fire, LLC is recalling certain 2009-2021 Gladiator and MetroStar emergency vehicles. The fire water pump solenoid may corrode internally, causing a loss of power to the pump control module.
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 Fire's own number for this recall: 21008. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 21V329 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 21V329 cover?
- Spartan Fire Gladiator, Spartan Fire Metrostar, model years 2009-2021.
- What is wrong with them?
- Spartan Fire, LLC is recalling certain 2009-2021 Gladiator and MetroStar emergency vehicles. The fire water pump solenoid may corrode internally, causing a loss of power to the pump control module.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loss of power to the pump control module can cause a loss of water pressure for fighting fires, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace suspect solenoids, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on July 9, 2021. Owners may contact Spartan Fire customer service at 1-517-543-6400.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Spartan Fire calls this recall 21008, 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 loss of power to the pump control module can cause a loss of water pressure for fighting fires, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 21V329 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Spartan Fire, LLC |
| System at fault | Electrical System |
| Reported to NHTSA | 10 May 2021 |
| Model years | 2009-2021 |
| Vehicles named | SPARTAN FIRE GLADIATOR, SPARTAN FIRE METROSTAR |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A loss of power to the pump control module can cause a loss of water pressure for fighting fires, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will replace suspect solenoids, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on July 9, 2021. Owners may contact Spartan Fire customer service at 1-517-543-6400.
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
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 21V329, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/21v329/
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 Fire notices we hold
- 24V507: 2023-2024 Gladiator, 2024-2025 Metro Star and 2024 KME Panther
- 24V453: 2017-2019 Gladiator and 2018-2019 Metro Star fire trucks
- 24V323: 2022-2024 Gladiator, Metro Star, and 2023-2024 FC-94
- 24V181: 2023-2024 Gladiator, MetroStar, 2024 Commercial, FC-94, and KME Panther trucks equipped with Hercules HC 1
- 23V631: 2021-2024 Gladiator, Metro Star, 2022-2024 FC-94, 2022-2023 KME Panther, and 2023 KME Predator emergency
- 23V389: 2018-2019, 2021 Gladiator and 2020 MetroStar emergency
- 23V192: 2020, 2022 and 2023 Gladiator and 2023 MetroStar
- 23V156: 2022-2024 Gladiator, Metro Star, FC-94 and KME Panther firetrucks
All 22 Spartan Fire 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 21V329 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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7f8f647f - 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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