Storyteller Overland Mode Xo, model years 2024 to 2025. Filed by Storyteller Overland and reported to NHTSA on 7 February 2025. 120 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Storyteller Overland, LLC (Storyteller) is recalling certain 2024-2025 MODE XO vehicles. The seat assembly's floor mounting system may be improperly welded, which can cause the seat assembly to loosen or detach. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard …
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What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 25V070 cover?
- Storyteller Overland Mode Xo, model years 2024-2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Storyteller Overland, LLC (Storyteller) is recalling certain 2024-2025 MODE XO vehicles. The seat assembly's floor mounting system may be improperly welded, which can cause the seat assembly to loosen or detach.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loose or detached seat assembly increases the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and replace the second-row seat mounting brackets and fasteners as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 24, 2025. Owners may contact Storyteller customer service at 1-888-999-7442.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
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 loose or detached seat assembly increases the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V070 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Storyteller Overland |
| System at fault | Seats:Critical Fasteners |
| Reported to NHTSA | 7 February 2025 |
| Model years | 2024-2025 |
| Vehicles named | STORYTELLER OVERLAND MODE XO |
What the notice says today
The defect
Storyteller Overland, LLC (Storyteller) is recalling certain 2024-2025 MODE XO vehicles. The seat assembly's floor mounting system may be improperly welded, which can cause the seat assembly to loosen or detach. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 207, "Seating Systems."
The consequence
A loose or detached seat assembly increases the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and replace the second-row seat mounting brackets and fasteners as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 24, 2025. Owners may contact Storyteller customer service at 1-888-999-7442.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 7e725c78107ab58d087b81d3d1898922…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 459 notices in the record whose component field names seats. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 44 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 25V070, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v070/
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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 Storyteller Overland notices we hold
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- 26V183: 2024-2026 GXV Hilt recreational
- 25V588: 2024-2026 GXV Hilt recreational
- 25V498: 2023 Mode LT recreational
- 22V770: 2022-2023 Storyteller Mode LT motorhomes
All 7 Storyteller Overland 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 25V070 on 23 August 2026, they were:
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59308d8d - Remedy
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