Nova Bus Lfs, model years 2005 to 2008. Filed by Nova Bus (US) Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 17 February 2025. 2 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Nova Bus (US) Inc. (Nova Bus) is recalling certain 2006-2007 LFS transit buses. The buses may have been built with an incorrect number of emergency exits. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 217, "Bus Emergency Exits and Window Retention and …
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: CR5772. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V101 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 25V101 cover?
- Nova Bus LFS, model years 2005-2008.
- What is wrong with them?
- Nova Bus (US) Inc. (Nova Bus) is recalling certain 2006-2007 LFS transit buses. The buses may have been built with an incorrect number of emergency exits.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An insufficient number of emergency exits can prevent or delay passengers from exiting during an emergency, increasing their risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Nova Bus will replace some windows with emergency exit windows, free of charge. This is a Phased campaign. Phase 1 will include 1 bus. Nova Bus will notify owners on or about 12/12/2025. Phase 2 will include 1 bus. Nova Bus will notify owners on or about 2/16/2026.
- 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 CR5772, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
- Has this notice changed since it was announced?
- Yes. The remedy was reworded on 2 Sep 2026. Both versions are on this page, with the date each was read.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
Owners of this vehicle were written to on 12 December 2025. The remedy was reworded on 2 September 2026, 264 days later, so the letter described the earlier version. Read both versions.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “An insufficient number of emergency exits can prevent or delay passengers from exiting during an emergency, increasing their risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V101 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Nova Bus (US) Inc. |
| System at fault | Structure:Emergency:Escape/Egress/Exit |
| Reported to NHTSA | 17 February 2025 |
| Model years | 2005-2008 |
| Vehicles named | NOVA BUS LFS |
What the notice says today
The defect
Nova Bus (US) Inc. (Nova Bus) is recalling certain 2006-2007 LFS transit buses. The buses may have been built with an incorrect number of emergency exits. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 217, "Bus Emergency Exits and Window Retention and Release."
The consequence
An insufficient number of emergency exits can prevent or delay passengers from exiting during an emergency, increasing their risk of injury.
The remedy
Nova Bus will replace some windows with emergency exit windows, free of charge. This is a Phased campaign. Phase 1 will include 1 bus. Nova Bus will notify owners on or about 12/12/2025. Phase 2 will include 1 bus. Nova Bus will notify owners on or about 2/16/2026. Owner notification letters were mailed December 12, 2025. Owners may contact Nova Bus customer service at 866-870-2046. Nova Bus's number for this recall is CR5772.
What it said before
This notice has been edited since it was first published. NHTSA shows only the current version. Both are below, read straight from the agency at the times shown, with the words that moved marked.
The remedy was rewritten
1 words added, 1 removed. The notice grew from 430 to 430 characters.
Nova Bus will replace some windows with emergency exit windows, free of charge. This is a Phased campaign. Phase 1 will include 1 bus. Nova Bus will notify owners on or about 12/12/2025. Phase 2 will include 1 bus. Nova Bus will notify owners on or about 2/16/2026. Owner notification letters were mailed December 12, 2025. Owners may contact Nova Bus customer service at 866-870-2046. Nova Bus's number for this recall is CR5691.
Nova Bus will replace some windows with emergency exit windows, free of charge. This is a Phased campaign. Phase 1 will include 1 bus. Nova Bus will notify owners on or about 12/12/2025. Phase 2 will include 1 bus. Nova Bus will notify owners on or about 2/16/2026. Owner notification letters were mailed December 12, 2025. Owners may contact Nova Bus customer service at 866-870-2046. Nova Bus's number for this recall is CR5772.
Nothing above is our paraphrase. Both columns are the agency’s own text; only the marking is ours.
This is one of 901 notices in the record whose component field names structure. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.
Last checked . The remedy was last reworded on , and both versions are held.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 25V101, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v101/
The copy quoted above hashes to d1af745c4acd84f660064977191fa640…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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 Nova Bus notices we hold
- 26V355: 1997-2002, 2005-2024 LFS, 2009-2014, and 2016 - 2024 LFS Artic transit buses
- 26V300: 2019-2020 LFS Artic and 2019-2023 LFS transit buses
- 26V275: 2022-2023 LFS transit buses
- 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
- 26E019: Ricon hidden frame windows sold through Prevost Parts and Prevost Service Center
- 25V822: 2021 and 2024-2025 LFS transit buses
All 94 Nova Bus 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 25V101 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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52a5c233 - 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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