Doosan Portable Air Compressor, model year 2023. Filed by Doosan Bobcat North America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 2 August 2024. 127 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Doosan Bobcat North America, Inc. (Doosan) is recalling certain 2023 Bobcat PA185, and C185WD0-T4F portable compressor trailers. The wheel lug nuts may be improperly tightened.
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.
Doosan's own number for this recall: 5-24-10. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 24V578 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 24V578 cover?
- Doosan Portable Air Compressor, model year 2023.
- What is wrong with them?
- Doosan Bobcat North America, Inc. (Doosan) is recalling certain 2023 Bobcat PA185, and C185WD0-T4F portable compressor trailers. The wheel lug nuts may be improperly tightened.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Improperly tightened lug nuts may allow the wheels to detach, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Owners are advised not to tow their trailers until the remedy has been completed. Dealers will tighten the wheel lug nuts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 7, 2024. Owners may contact Doosan customer service at 1-800-633-5206. Doosan's number for this recall is 5-24-10.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Doosan calls this recall 5-24-10, 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: “Improperly tightened lug nuts may allow the wheels to detach, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 24V578 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Doosan Bobcat North America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Wheels:Lugs/Nuts/Bolts/Studs |
| Reported to NHTSA | 2 August 2024 |
| Model years | 2023-2023 |
| Vehicles named | DOOSAN PORTABLE AIR COMPRESSOR |
This is not an ordinary campaign.
- Owners are told not to drive the vehicle at all. NHTSA applies this to a small minority of campaigns. 28 of the 1,399 we currently hold.
What the notice says today
The consequence
Improperly tightened lug nuts may allow the wheels to detach, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Owners are advised not to tow their trailers until the remedy has been completed. Dealers will tighten the wheel lug nuts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 7, 2024. Owners may contact Doosan customer service at 1-800-633-5206. Doosan's number for this recall is 5-24-10.
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 191 notices in the record whose component field names wheels. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 30 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 2024445, recorded 2 August 2024 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 52410, 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
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 24V578, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/24v578/
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 Doosan notices we hold
- 24V544: 2024 Bobcat PG25 portable generator trailers
- 24V230: 2015-2023 Portable Generator Trailers
- 23V859: 2019-2023 Portable Generator Trailers
- 22V717: 2021-2022 Doosan Portable Power Portable Air Compressors
- 21V826: 2019-2021 Doosan Portable Power Air Compressors and Mobile Generators
All 6 Doosan 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 24V578 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
9a54f437 - Consequence
2247f881 - Remedy
218f1a61
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 24V578 · how the whole register is watched
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