Nova Bus Coolant Level(Ecl) Sensor, model year 9999. Filed by Nova Bus (US) Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 19 February 2025. 223 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Nova Bus (US) Inc. (Nova Bus) is recalling certain Casco engine coolant level sensors with part number N108036. The coolant sensor could send a false signal, causing the engine to shut down.
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.
Nova Bus's own number for this recall: CR5693. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25E012 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 25E012 cover?
- Nova Bus Coolant Level(Ecl) Sensor.
- What is wrong with them?
- Nova Bus (US) Inc. (Nova Bus) is recalling certain Casco engine coolant level sensors with part number N108036. The coolant sensor could send a false signal, causing the engine to shut down.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An unexpected engine shut down can increase the risk of a crash. Additionally, transferring passengers from the disabled bus can increase the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Nova Bus will replace the coolant sensor as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed July 24, 2025. Owners may contact Nova Bus customer service at 800-350-6682. Nova Bus's number for this recall is CR5693.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Nova Bus calls this recall CR5693, 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: “An unexpected engine shut down can increase the risk of a crash. Additionally, transferring passengers from the disabled bus can increase the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25E012 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Nova Bus (US) Inc. |
| System at fault | Engine And Engine Cooling:Cooling System |
| Reported to NHTSA | 19 February 2025 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | NOVA BUS COOLANT LEVEL(ECL) SENSOR |
What the notice says today
The consequence
An unexpected engine shut down can increase the risk of a crash. Additionally, transferring passengers from the disabled bus can increase the risk of injury.
The remedy
Nova Bus will replace the coolant sensor as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed July 24, 2025. Owners may contact Nova Bus customer service at 800-350-6682. Nova Bus's number for this recall is CR5693.
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 588 notices in the record whose component field names engine and engine cooling. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 47 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 25E012, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25e012/
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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- 26V206: 2025 LFS and 2024 LFS Artic transit buses
- 26V182: 2016-2018, 2020, 2022-2023 LFS and 2019-2020 LFS Artic transit buses
- 26V077: 2013-2019 LFS and 2019-2020 LFS Artic transit buses equipped with Double Transversal seats
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- 25V822: 2021 and 2024-2025 LFS transit buses
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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 25E012 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
74aca3d6 - Consequence
77be13ee - 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.
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