Altec Am, Altec An, model years 1995 to 1996. Filed by Altec Industries, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 21 November 2024. 158 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Altec Industries, Inc. (Altec) is recalling certain 1995-1996 AM and AN aerial devices. Please see the recall report for a complete list of models. The hydraulic cylinder head gland may have been improperly manufactured, which can result in it detaching from the barrel of the cylinder while under load, leaving the …
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.
Altec's own number for this recall: CSN-3199. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 24V881 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 24V881 cover?
- Altec Am, Altec An, model years 1995-1996.
- What is wrong with them?
- Altec Industries, Inc. (Altec) is recalling certain 1995-1996 AM and AN aerial devices. Please see the recall report for a complete list of models.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loss of lower boom support during operation could cause the lower boom to fall, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Owners should inspect the cylinder and confirm that the cylinder matches the part number and serial number list. If the unit has an affected cylinder, the owner should remove the unit from service or replace the cylinder.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Altec calls this recall CSN-3199, 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 loss of lower boom support during operation could cause the lower boom to fall, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 24V881 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Altec Industries, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Mechanical:Boom/Crane/Ladder:Hoses/Cables/Rods/Gears/Strut/Cylinder |
| Reported to NHTSA | 21 November 2024 |
| Model years | 1995-1996 |
| Vehicles named | ALTEC AM, ALTEC AN |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A loss of lower boom support during operation could cause the lower boom to fall, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Owners should inspect the cylinder and confirm that the cylinder matches the part number and serial number list. If the unit has an affected cylinder, the owner should remove the unit from service or replace the cylinder. If an owner chooses to keep a recalled unit in service, Altec will offer a kit the owner can purchase, and install at their own expense. Owner notification letters were mailed May 6, 2025. Owners may contact Altec customer service at 1-877-462-5832. Altec's number for this recall is CSN-3199.
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 2,632 notices in the record whose component field names equipment. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 29 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 2024740, recorded 5 December 2024 (14 days after the American filing)
Matched on CSN3199, 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 24V881, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/24v881/
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.
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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 24V881 on 17 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
9e0c5768 - Consequence
bb0cee04 - 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 24V881 · how the whole register is watched
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