Prestone Dot 3 Brake Fluid, model year 9999. Filed by Prestone Products LLC and reported to NHTSA on 4 December 2024. 320 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Prestone Products LLC (Prestone) is recalling certain 1-gallon bottles of Prestone DOT 3 Brake Fluid, part number AS402 with date code 2PW24226 manufactured on August 13, 2024. The brake fluid bottles may contain power steering fluid.
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.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 24E101 cover?
- Prestone Dot 3 Brake Fluid.
- What is wrong with them?
- Prestone Products LLC (Prestone) is recalling certain 1-gallon bottles of Prestone DOT 3 Brake Fluid, part number AS402 with date code 2PW24226 manufactured on August 13, 2024. The brake fluid bottles may contain power steering fluid.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Accidentally using power steering fluid as brake fluid can result in reduced braking performance and increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Prestone will provide a refund, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed December 16, 2024. Owners may contact Prestone's customer service at 1-888-269-0750.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
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: “Accidentally using power steering fluid as brake fluid can result in reduced braking performance and increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 24E101 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Prestone Products LLC |
| System at fault | Service Brakes, Hydraulic:Fluid |
| Reported to NHTSA | 4 December 2024 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | PRESTONE DOT 3 BRAKE FLUID |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Accidentally using power steering fluid as brake fluid can result in reduced braking performance and increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Prestone will provide a refund, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed December 16, 2024. Owners may contact Prestone's customer service at 1-888-269-0750.
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 583 notices in the record whose component field names service brakes, hydraulic. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 37 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 24E101, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/24e101/
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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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 24E101 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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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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