Cottrell 1-Car, Cottrell 1-Car Carrier, model years 2019 to 9999. Filed by Cottrell, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 10 August 2021. 878 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Cottrell, Inc. (Cottrell) is recalling certain 2018-2021 1-Car Carrier trailers. These trailers were manufactured without side and rear reflex reflectors. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 108, "Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated …
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.
Cottrell's own number for this recall: 2021 1-CAR REFLECTOR. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 21V626 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 21V626 cover?
- Cottrell 1-Car, Cottrell 1-Car Carrier, model years 2019 onwards.
- What is wrong with them?
- Cottrell, Inc. (Cottrell) is recalling certain 2018-2021 1-Car Carrier trailers. These trailers were manufactured without side and rear reflex reflectors.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Without the proper reflective equipment, the trailers may have reduced visibility, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Cottrell will provide 4 reflex reflectors and installation instructions to owners, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on August 11, 2021. Owners may contact Cottrell's customer service at 1-770-532-7251. Cottrell's number for this recall is 2021 1-Car Reflector.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Cottrell calls this recall 2021 1-CAR REFLECTOR, 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: “Without the proper reflective equipment, the trailers may have reduced visibility, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 21V626 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Cottrell, Inc. |
| System at fault | Exterior Lighting |
| Reported to NHTSA | 10 August 2021 |
| Model years | 2019-9999 |
| Vehicles named | COTTRELL 1-CAR, COTTRELL 1-CAR CARRIER |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Without the proper reflective equipment, the trailers may have reduced visibility, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Cottrell will provide 4 reflex reflectors and installation instructions to owners, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on August 11, 2021. Owners may contact Cottrell's customer service at 1-770-532-7251. Cottrell's number for this recall is 2021 1-Car Reflector.
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 663 notices in the record whose component field names exterior lighting. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 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.
Other Cottrell notices we hold
- 21V863: 2019-2022 2-Car Carrier
- 19V771: 2018-2019 1-Car trailers
- 14V028: model year 2005-2011 auto transporter
- 12V370: model year 2006-2011 trailers equipped with a Meritor axle
- 11V594: ALL MODELS OF COTTRELL TRAILERS, MODEL YEAR 2006 THROUGH 2011, EQUIPPED WITH MERITOR AXLES THAT CONTAIN THE FAG BRAND BEARING SYSTEM
All 6 Cottrell 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 21V626 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
1309a628 - Consequence
6ab6f3c9 - Remedy
79115215
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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