Marion Body Works Spartan Fire Metrostar, model year 2024. Filed by Marion Body Works Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 8 January 2024. 2 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Marion Body Works Inc. is recalling certain 2024 Spartan Fire MetroStar vehicles. A defect in the inversion valve may delay park brake engagement, which could allow the vehicle to move unintentionally. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 121, …
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.
Marion Body Works's own number for this recall: 23V-631. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 24V007 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 24V007 cover?
- Marion Body Works Spartan Fire Metrostar, model year 2024.
- What is wrong with them?
- Marion Body Works Inc. is recalling certain 2024 Spartan Fire MetroStar vehicles. A defect in the inversion valve may delay park brake engagement, which could allow the vehicle to move unintentionally.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Unintentional vehicle movement can increase the risk of a crash or injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the inversion valve, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 11, 2024. Owners may contact Marion Body Works customer service at 1-715-754-5261.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Marion Body Works calls this recall 23V-631, 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: “Unintentional vehicle movement can increase the risk of a crash or injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 24V007 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Marion Body Works Inc. |
| System at fault | Parking Brake |
| Reported to NHTSA | 8 January 2024 |
| Model years | 2024-2024 |
| Vehicles named | MARION BODY WORKS SPARTAN FIRE METROSTAR |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Unintentional vehicle movement can increase the risk of a crash or injury.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the inversion valve, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 11, 2024. Owners may contact Marion Body Works customer service at 1-715-754-5261.
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 175 notices in the record whose component field names parking brake. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 49 days.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
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 Marion Body Works notices we hold
- 26V521: 2025 Pumper fire engines, equipped with certain Weldon UV800 Display Unit user interfaces
- 26E034: Waltco MDV series liftgates installed on Morgan aluminum dry vans
- 25V758: 2024-2025 Spartan Fire FC-94, Gladiator, and Metrostar
- 25V009: 2024 Spartan Fire Metro Star
- 23V366: 2022 Gladiator and 2023 MetroStar emergency
- 22V172: one 2018 International SR525 emergency vehicle equipped with feature codes 12VXT or 12VXU
- 22V019: 2021-2022 Spartan Gladiator, MetroStar, and MetroStar-RT
- 21V567: 2009-2021 Gladiator and MetroStar emergency
All 15 Marion Body Works 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 24V007 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
75d599e4 - Consequence
f7e32c5e - 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.
The wording we hold for 24V007 · how the whole register is watched
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Marion Body Works Spartan Fire Metrostar, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
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