Vicinity Vi33, model year 2017. Filed by Vicinity Motor Corporation and reported to NHTSA on 31 January 2024. 14 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Vicinity Motor Corporation (Vicinity) is recalling certain 2017 Vi33 transit buses. Inadequate clearance may allow the CNG tanks to contact the supporting mounting structure and/or safety cables, damaging the tanks.
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.
Vicinity's own number for this recall: CA-000-051. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 24V059 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 24V059 cover?
- Vicinity Vi33, model year 2017.
- What is wrong with them?
- Vicinity Motor Corporation (Vicinity) is recalling certain 2017 Vi33 transit buses. Inadequate clearance may allow the CNG tanks to contact the supporting mounting structure and/or safety cables, damaging the tanks.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A damaged tank can leak natural gas, increasing the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. As an interim repair, dealers will inspect and adjust the mounting structure. If the vehicle's mounting structure cannot be adjusted, owners are advised not to drive their vehicle until the supporting member is replaced.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Vicinity calls this recall CA-000-051, 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 damaged tank can leak natural gas, increasing the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 24V059 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Vicinity Motor Corporation |
| System at fault | Fuel System, Other:Storage |
| Reported to NHTSA | 31 January 2024 |
| Model years | 2017-2017 |
| Vehicles named | VICINITY VI33 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A damaged tank can leak natural gas, increasing the risk of a fire.
The remedy
As an interim repair, dealers will inspect and adjust the mounting structure. If the vehicle's mounting structure cannot be adjusted, owners are advised not to drive their vehicle until the supporting member is replaced. When the final repair is available, dealers will inspect and secure the safety cables, install protective material on the tank, and replace the mounting structure and CNG tanks as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 18, 2024. Owners may contact Vicinity customer service at 1-604-607-4000. Vicinity's number for this recall is CA-000-051.
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 145 notices in the record whose component field names fuel system, other. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 35 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 24V059, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/24v059/
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 Vicinity notices we hold
- 24V385: 2017 Vi33 and 2022 Vi35 buses powered by compressed natural gas (CNG)
- 24V092: 2022 Vi35 transit buses
- 22V148: 2020-2021 Vi38
All 4 Vicinity 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 24V059 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
454baaf1 - Consequence
9ea4c5a3 - 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 24V059 · how the whole register is watched
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