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Spartan Fire recall 23V156 (23007): Kme Panther, Spartan Fire FC-94, Spartan Fire Gladiator and 1 more (2022 to 2024)

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Kme Panther, Spartan Fire Fc-94, Spartan Fire Gladiator, Spartan Fire Metrostar, model years 2022 to 2024. Filed by Spartan Fire, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 23 March 2023. 166 vehicles potentially affected.

What the notice says Spartan Fire LLC (Spartan Fire) is recalling certain 2022-2024 Gladiator, Metro Star, FC-94 and KME Panther firetrucks. After the vehicle is reversed, the transmission control module (TCM) may fail to achieve the 4th gear lockup needed to initiate the water pump.

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.

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Spartan Fire's own number for this recall: 23007. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 23V156 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 23V156 cover?
Kme Panther, Spartan Fire Fc-94, Spartan Fire Gladiator, Spartan Fire Metrostar, model years 2022-2024.
What is wrong with them?
Spartan Fire LLC (Spartan Fire) is recalling certain 2022-2024 Gladiator, Metro Star, FC-94 and KME Panther firetrucks. After the vehicle is reversed, the transmission control module (TCM) may fail to achieve the 4th gear lockup needed to initiate the water pump.
What can happen if it is not put right?
A firetruck that is unable to pump water increases the risk of injury during a fire.
Is there a fix yet?
Yes, and it is free. Dealers will update the TCM software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 27, 2023. Owners may contact Spartan Fire customer service at 1-517-543-6400. Spartan Fire's number for this recall is 23007.
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 23007, 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 firetruck that is unable to pump water increases the risk of injury during a fire.”

166vehicles potentially
affected
4models named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 23 March 2023owners told 27 April 2023today
The defect reached the regulator on 23 March 2023. Owners were written to 35 days later, on 27 April 2023. The median across the 14,869 American recalls that carry both dates is 41 days, and nine in ten owners are written to within 107. This campaign was quicker than most.
Campaign23V156
Filed bySpartan Fire, LLC
System at faultPower Train:Automatic Transmission:Control Module (TCM/PCM/Tecm)
Reported to NHTSA23 March 2023
Model years2022-2024
Vehicles namedKME PANTHER, SPARTAN FIRE FC-94, SPARTAN FIRE GLADIATOR, SPARTAN FIRE METROSTAR

What the notice says today

The consequence

A firetruck that is unable to pump water increases the risk of injury during a fire.

The remedy

Dealers will update the TCM software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 27, 2023. Owners may contact Spartan Fire customer service at 1-517-543-6400. Spartan Fire's number for this recall is 23007.

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 816 notices in the record whose component field names power train. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.

Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.

The same recall in other countries

This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.

  • Canada: Transport Canada recall 2023126, recorded 9 March 2023 (14 days before the American filing)

Matched on 23007, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.

How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts

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 23V156, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/23v156/

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

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 23V156 on 23 August 2026, they were:

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.

The wording we hold for 23V156 · how the whole register is watched

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