Kme Aerial Fire Apparatus, Kme Pumper Fire Apparatus, Smeal Aerial, Spartan Fire Ladder Tower Apparatus, Spartan Fire S-180 Pumper, model years 2020 to 2023. Filed by Spartan Fire, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 1 December 2023. 69 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Spartan Fire, LLC (Spartan Fire) is recalling certain 2020-2023 Spartan Fire S-180 Pumper Fire Apparatus, Smeal Aerial Fire Apparatus, Smeal Pumper Fire Apparatus, and Spartan Fire Ladder Tower Aerial Fire Apparatus trucks. In the event of a short circuit or wiring failure, the firmware in the vehicle multiplex system …
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.
The maker's own number for this recall: 23020. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 23V808 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 23V808 cover?
- Kme Aerial Fire Apparatus, Kme Pumper Fire Apparatus, Smeal Aerial, Spartan Fire Ladder Tower Apparatus, Spartan Fire S-180 Pumper, model years 2020-2023.
- What is wrong with them?
- Spartan Fire, LLC (Spartan Fire) is recalling certain 2020-2023 Spartan Fire S-180 Pumper Fire Apparatus, Smeal Aerial Fire Apparatus, Smeal Pumper Fire Apparatus, and Spartan Fire Ladder Tower Aerial Fire Apparatus trucks.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Overloaded electrical circuits can overheat, increasing the risk of fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Spartan Fire will work with the equipment manufacturer to update the firmware, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 17, 2024. Owners may contact Spartan Fire customer service at 1-517-543-6400. Spartan Fire's number for this recall is 23020.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. The maker calls this recall 23020, 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: “Overloaded electrical circuits can overheat, increasing the risk of fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 23V808 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Spartan Fire, LLC |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Wiring |
| Reported to NHTSA | 1 December 2023 |
| Model years | 2020-2023 |
| Vehicles named | KME AERIAL FIRE APPARATUS, KME PUMPER FIRE APPARATUS, SMEAL AERIAL, SPARTAN FIRE LADDER TOWER APPARATUS, SPARTAN FIRE S-180 PUMPER |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Overloaded electrical circuits can overheat, increasing the risk of fire.
The remedy
Spartan Fire will work with the equipment manufacturer to update the firmware, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 17, 2024. Owners may contact Spartan Fire customer service at 1-517-543-6400. Spartan Fire's number for this recall is 23020.
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 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 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 2024785, recorded 31 December 2024 (13 months after the American filing)
Matched on 23020, 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 23V808, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/23v808/
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.
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 23V808 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
992aea29 - Consequence
1d105752 - 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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