International Hv, International Mv, International Workstar, model years 2019 to 2025. Filed by International Motors, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 21 March 2025. 153 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says International Motors, LLC (International) is recalling certain 2024 HV, 2020-2025 MV, and 2019 Workstar 7400 trucks. The caliper may contact a suspension spring or axle U-bolt and prevent the outer brake pad from functioning.
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.
International's own number for this recall: 25501. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V178 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 25V178 cover?
- International HV, International MV, International Workstar, model years 2019-2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- International Motors, LLC (International) is recalling certain 2024 HV, 2020-2025 MV, and 2019 Workstar 7400 trucks. The caliper may contact a suspension spring or axle U-bolt and prevent the outer brake pad from functioning.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loss of outer brake pad function can extend the vehicle's stopping distance, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will switch the left and right rear air disc brake calipers, replace the rear brake torque plates, and replace the brake pads, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 12, 2025. Owners may contact International customer service at 1-800-448-7825.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. International calls this recall 25501, 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 outer brake pad function can extend the vehicle's stopping distance, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V178 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | International Motors, LLC |
| System at fault | Service Brakes, Air:Disc:Caliper |
| Reported to NHTSA | 21 March 2025 |
| Model years | 2019-2025 |
| Vehicles named | INTERNATIONAL HV, INTERNATIONAL MV, INTERNATIONAL WORKSTAR |
What the notice says today
The defect
International Motors, LLC (International) is recalling certain 2024 HV, 2020-2025 MV, and 2019 Workstar 7400 trucks. The caliper may contact a suspension spring or axle U-bolt and prevent the outer brake pad from functioning.
The consequence
A loss of outer brake pad function can extend the vehicle's stopping distance, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will switch the left and right rear air disc brake calipers, replace the rear brake torque plates, and replace the brake pads, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 12, 2025. Owners may contact International customer service at 1-800-448-7825. International's number for this recall is 25501.
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 be05151334052977cfac9c040419f40c…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 353 notices in the record whose component field names service brakes, air. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- International HV recalls: 39 US campaigns
- International MV recalls: 41 US campaigns
- International Workstar recalls: 36 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 25V178, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v178/
The copy quoted above hashes to be05151334052977cfac9c040419f40c…. 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 International notices we hold
- 26V516: 2027 HV, HX, LT, MV, and RH trucks
- 26V461: 2025-2027 IC Bus CECB transit buses
- 26V460: 2025-2027 IC Bus EVSB and CESB school buses
- 26V459: 2021, 2023-2027 MV, and 2026-2027 HV
- 26V382: 2026-2027 HV
- 26V364: 2027 IC Bus CESB school buses
- 26V348: 2026-2027 IC Bus EVSB school buses
- 26V294: 2026-2027 HV
All 42 International 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 25V178 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
eb07d5b3 - Consequence
852d2b5e - 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 25V178 · how the whole register is watched
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