Custom Fire Peterbilt 348, model year 2018. Filed by Custom Fire Apparatus, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 28 June 2022. 1 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Custom Fire Apparatus, Inc. (Custom Fire) is recalling one 2018 Peterbilt 348 fire truck. The Dana D-series axle steering arm fasteners that attach the steering arm to the steering knuckle may fail.
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.
Custom Fire's own number for this recall: 22V277. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 22V461 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 22V461 cover?
- Custom Fire Peterbilt 348, model year 2018.
- What is wrong with them?
- Custom Fire Apparatus, Inc. (Custom Fire) is recalling one 2018 Peterbilt 348 fire truck. The Dana D-series axle steering arm fasteners that attach the steering arm to the steering knuckle may fail.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Steering arm fastener failure can result in a loss of steering control, and increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace and tighten the steer arm fasteners, free of charge. The owner notification letter was mailed November 8, 2022. Owners may contact Custom Fire's customer service at 1-800-443-8851. Custom Fire's number for this recall is 22V277.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Custom Fire calls this recall 22V277, 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: “Steering arm fastener failure can result in a loss of steering control, and increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 22V461 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Custom Fire Apparatus, Inc. |
| System at fault | Steering:Linkages:Knuckle:Spindle:Arm |
| Reported to NHTSA | 28 June 2022 |
| Model years | 2018-2018 |
| Vehicles named | CUSTOM FIRE PETERBILT 348 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Steering arm fastener failure can result in a loss of steering control, and increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will replace and tighten the steer arm fasteners, free of charge. The owner notification letter was mailed November 8, 2022. Owners may contact Custom Fire's customer service at 1-800-443-8851. Custom Fire's number for this recall is 22V277.
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.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 22V461, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/22v461/
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 Custom Fire notices we hold
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- 22V316: 2021-2022 Spartan Gladiator, MetroStar, and MetroStar-RT emergency
- 21V630: 2017-2021 Spartan Gladiator, MetroStar, and MetroStarX emergency
- 21V620: 2017-2021 Peterbilt 348, Freightliner M2, Kenworth T370, and T880 emergency
- 21V618: 2019-2021 Spartan Gladiator and Metrostar emergency
- 20V111: one2017 In Side Mount Pumper vehicle equipped with a Smart Foam 6
All 8 Custom 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 22V461 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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304c1ba0 - 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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