Spartan Fire Gladiator, Spartan Fire Metrostar, model years 2019 to 2021. Filed by Marion Body Works Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 17 June 2021. 8 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Marion Body Works Inc. is recalling certain 2019-2021 Spartan Gladiator and MetroStar vehicles. Pressure may build in the power steering pump and break the shaft seal, resulting in a loss of power steering assist.
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.
Marion Body Works's own number for this recall: 21V-252. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 21V458 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 21V458 cover?
- Spartan Fire Gladiator, Spartan Fire Metrostar, model years 2019-2021.
- What is wrong with them?
- Marion Body Works Inc. is recalling certain 2019-2021 Spartan Gladiator and MetroStar vehicles. Pressure may build in the power steering pump and break the shaft seal, resulting in a loss of power steering assist.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loss of power steering assist can increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Spartan dealers will replace the power steering pump, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on June 24, 2021. Owners may contact Marion Body Works customer service at 1-715-754-5261. Marion Body Works number for this recall is 21V-252.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Marion Body Works calls this recall 21V-252, 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 steering assist can increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 21V458 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Marion Body Works Inc. |
| System at fault | Steering:Hydraulic Power Assist:Pump |
| Reported to NHTSA | 17 June 2021 |
| Model years | 2019-2021 |
| Vehicles named | SPARTAN FIRE GLADIATOR, SPARTAN FIRE METROSTAR |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A loss of power steering assist can increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Spartan dealers will replace the power steering pump, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on June 24, 2021. Owners may contact Marion Body Works customer service at 1-715-754-5261. Marion Body Works number for this recall is 21V-252.
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 745 notices in the record whose component field names steering. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 39 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 21V458, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/21v458/
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 Marion Body Works notices we hold
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- 26E034: Waltco MDV series liftgates installed on Morgan aluminum dry vans
- 25V758: 2024-2025 Spartan Fire FC-94, Gladiator, and Metrostar
- 25V009: 2024 Spartan Fire Metro Star
- 24V007: 2024 Spartan Fire MetroStar
- 23V366: 2022 Gladiator and 2023 MetroStar emergency
- 22V172: one 2018 International SR525 emergency vehicle equipped with feature codes 12VXT or 12VXU
- 22V019: 2021-2022 Spartan Gladiator, MetroStar, and MetroStar-RT
All 15 Marion Body Works 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 21V458 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
7a905e4a - Consequence
0134f608 - 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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