Hme Ram 5500, model years 2018 to 2020. Filed by HME, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 15 October 2021. 5 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says HME, Inc. (HME) is recalling certain 2018-2020 Ram 5500 emergency vehicles. The flanged wheel lug nuts may have been over-tightened during service.
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.
Hme's own number for this recall: 21V-398. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 21V807 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 21V807 cover?
- Hme Ram 5500, model years 2018-2020.
- What is wrong with them?
- HME, Inc. (HME) is recalling certain 2018-2020 Ram 5500 emergency vehicles. The flanged wheel lug nuts may have been over-tightened during service.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An over-tightened lug nut may cause the wheel stud to break, resulting in wheel separation and increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will update the torque specification in the owner's manual and other published service documents. Dealers will also inspect the vehicle's wheel studs, replacing them if necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed on February 25, 2022.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Hme calls this recall 21V-398, 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 over-tightened lug nut may cause the wheel stud to break, resulting in wheel separation and increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 21V807 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | HME, Inc. |
| System at fault | Wheels |
| Reported to NHTSA | 15 October 2021 |
| Model years | 2018-2020 |
| Vehicles named | HME RAM 5500 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
An over-tightened lug nut may cause the wheel stud to break, resulting in wheel separation and increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will update the torque specification in the owner's manual and other published service documents. Dealers will also inspect the vehicle's wheel studs, replacing them if necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed on February 25, 2022. Owners may contact HME's customer service at 1-616-534-1463.
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 191 notices in the record whose component field names wheels. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 30 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 21V807, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/21v807/
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.
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Other Hme notices we hold
- 22V095: 2019-2021 AF1 and 1871
- 21V808: 2019 Ram 5500 emergency
- 21V791: one 2014 Ford F-550 emergency
- 21V790: 2017-2020 Ahrens-Fox model 34 Type 3, Rescue, Pumper, Tanker, Aerial, CommFox, WolfSA Tanker, 1871-SFO, 1871-W, 1871-Spectr, and AF1 fire trucks
- 21V283: 2016-2021 AF1 and 1871
- 21V282: 2013-2021 AF1, 1871, and SFO
- 20V104: 2016-2020 AF1, 1871 and SFO emergency
- 19V028: 2017-2018 1871
All 17 Hme 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 21V807 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
68e6989a - Consequence
dcf51d1b - 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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