Mack Lrbe (Electric), model years 2022 to 2025. Filed by Mack Trucks, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 25 March 2025. 17 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Mack Trucks, Inc. (Mack) is recalling certain 2022-2025 Mack LRBE trucks. The high voltage batteries may have loose hardware that can fall inside the battery pack and create a short circuit.
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.
Mack's own number for this recall: SC0475. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V185 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 25V185 cover?
- Mack Lrbe (Electric), model years 2022-2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Mack Trucks, Inc. (Mack) is recalling certain 2022-2025 Mack LRBE trucks. The high voltage batteries may have loose hardware that can fall inside the battery pack and create a short circuit.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A short circuit increases the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the batteries, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 24, 2025. Owner notification letters will be mailed on or before August 25, 2025, for the additional vehicles added on July 22, 2025. Owners may contact Mack's customer service at 1-800-866-1177.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Mack calls this recall SC0475, 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 short circuit increases the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V185 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Mack Trucks, Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Propulsion System:Traction Battery |
| Reported to NHTSA | 25 March 2025 |
| Model years | 2022-2025 |
| Vehicles named | MACK LRBE (ELECTRIC) |
What the notice says today
The defect
Mack Trucks, Inc. (Mack) is recalling certain 2022-2025 Mack LRBE trucks. The high voltage batteries may have loose hardware that can fall inside the battery pack and create a short circuit.
The consequence
A short circuit increases the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the batteries, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 24, 2025. Owner notification letters will be mailed on or before August 25, 2025, for the additional vehicles added on July 22, 2025. Owners may contact Mack's customer service at 1-800-866-1177. Mack's number for this recall is SC0475.
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 d65fca80bc40d20c8503e7ef7bf9515e…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
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 25V185, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v185/
The copy quoted above hashes to d65fca80bc40d20c8503e7ef7bf9515e…. 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.
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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 25V185 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
6c8d166b - Consequence
efbe5dd2 - 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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